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Originally Posted by haertig
As far as the copyright thing being a good deal or a bad deal, I don't know about that ... that's outside of my interest level to research. But one side can't blame the other for something they agreed to. It certainly wasn't "stolen". It was "agreed upon". If one side has second thoughts about what they agreed to in the past, they can whine and complain about it, call it unfair ... and renegotiate.
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That's assuming Canada has any negotiating leverage in this treaty. The Berne convention only requires a minimum of life+50 for copyright, but the US has been pushing that to life+70 with any treaty that include intellectual property terms. It's a good thing for the US copyright holders to get an additional 20 years of copyright, and it's a bad thing for content consumers in Canada, who will now have to wait another 20 years for any new stuff to enter into public domain.