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Originally Posted by GeoffR
The way I read it:
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Assuming ratification completion in 2016, is this consistent with your reading for most individually authored titles:
New Zealand public domain day occurs, as previously planned, on January 1, 2016.
From 2017 through 2026, New Zealand gets no significant public domain day. This is mostly because of the TPP, but
not having much in the way of a rule of the shorter term is another factor.
The next New Zealand public domain day, after that gap, is January 1, 2027, then occurring annually up to, and including, 2034.
Then there is a second gap, with no public domain day in 2035 or 2036.
Significant public domain days resume on January 1, 2037 and henceforth follow Life + 70 rules.
Contrast this with Vietnam, which is granted a simple five year delay in Article 18.83 Paragraph 4(f). There, public domain day will occur, as previously planned, up to and including January 1, 2021. Then, Vietnamese, as I read it, have no public domain day (except maybe for rule of the shorter term situations) until January 1, 2037.
Why should any mobile reader, even in New Zealand or Vietnam, care? New Zealand's population is probably too low to support the substantial volunteer proofreading community needed to ramp up a local Project Gutenberg in 2027. As for purchased eBooks, I'd think that, in New Zealand and Vietnam, they are mostly purchased from outside vendors – think
www.amazon.com.au – who are unlikely to lower a price just because the eBook is public domain in a secondary market. So, from a practical standpoint, TPP copyright leniencies granted to New Zealand, Vietnam, and Malaysia may not much matter for eBooks.
Nonetheless, I have three reasons to be interested. One is to improve the truthfulness of statements I make in posts here. A second is to understand whether there really are TPP book copyright absurdities worth exposing. The third is to gain skill in parsing opaque language we may see in likely upcoming attempts to limit public domain days scheduled, for the US, starting January 1, 2019.