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Originally Posted by Little.Egret
But Parliament rejected Lord Macaulay's arguments and eventually chose Life+50 with no registration from 1910. There is no evidence that the British Empire suffered much.
The American system proved a recipe for paradise for bureaucrats, pirates and lawyers and methods for robbing foreigners. It wasn't until the same methods threatened to rob Americans that the US joined the Berne Convention.
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The US system worked fine for US books, which is what was covered.
One could make the same arguments towards the way the rest of the world currently treats US patents on drugs. I guess one's level of moral outrage depends on if you benefit by robbing foreigners or not.