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Originally Posted by Daithi
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 appologese.
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They are being pressured by the US to do that. The EU change to 70 I think was because of US interests. It was used as a strategy to get it changed to 70 in the US since they then could us the argument that they needed to be the same as in the EU.