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Originally Posted by BookCat
Oh . . . did you have to burst my bubble?   |
Here in NZ we still have Life+50 but just about lost it when the original Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement was negotiated a couple of years back as the USA was one of the partners and demanded it. Fortunately Mr. Trump came into power and withdrew the USA from the proposed agreement before it was implemented so the new agreement, sans USA, allowed us to stay at +50.
For NZ the economic analysis for going from +50 to +70 showed that a net loss to the economy would occur; that outcome may be different in some other countries but many people do not realize that the economic effects of copyright are not always positive.
Australia became +70 when they negotiated their trade agreement with the USA some years back and I suspect that the UK will likely have to stay with +70, even if it wanted to change, in its trade agreement with USA after Brexit.