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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Not actually. I was indeed wrong about Bono and acknowledge it, but the main point of the post was that the rest of the world had gone to extended copyright well before the US and that the US joined the rest of the world rather than the US twisting arms to get the rest of the world on board with the extended copyright.
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Let's be precise here. The EU extended the Berne copyright. Most of the rest of the world did not before the US extended in 1998.
Canada, didn't. Australia, New Zealand, most of Asia didn't. The only longer one that I know of then was Mexico.