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Originally Posted by latepaul
I know your "political will" comment was in the context of orphaned works so your reply here is fair comment, but I was really responding to the wider point of geo-restrictions and the desire for "rules to stop this nonsense".
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Ah, ok.
As far as geo restrictions, as far as I know, there isn't anything in any treaty that forces it. It's simply a business matter that is enforced via contracts. There is nothing that keeps an author from signing a contract that gives world wide ebooks rights to a specific publisher. The only reason that an author wouldn't sign a world wide ebook contract is because that author had already signed a contract that gave the ebook rights in a specific location to someone else or the publisher wasn't interested in the world wide rights.