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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Fact correction. The US did not join Berne until 1976, not 1989...*and then it did it only half way, to protect Hollywood....
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Fact correction on fact correction
The U.S. Berne Convention Implementation Act of 1988 came into force on March 1, 1989 making the United States a party to the Berne Convention. The Copyright Act of 1976 while narrowing the differences between the U.S. law and the Berne Convention, did not make the U.S. a party to the Convention. See for example,
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.c...act_id=1411436