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Originally Posted by HarryT
I meant that the US seems to be uniquely extending copyright terms to prevent any new material from entering the public domain, largely (I understand) due to the lobbying of companies like Disney. I don't know of any other country which has done this. In pretty much every other country, new material enters the public domain, year on year, as one would expect it to.
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I was under the impression that within the last couple decades several EU nations had extended their copyright terms from 50 to 70 years. I had also thought that several Eastern European nations had done the same, and that Australia had done the same, and that Canada was being pressured, and that the EU just recently extended copyrights that apply to music from 50 to 70 years (just as Beatles tunes were about to enter the public domain) and that they had been trying to extend it to 95 years. If I'm mistaken then my apologies.