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Originally Posted by PKFFW
schex86 - Do you think that your assertion that current copyright law is against the USA Constitution has any relevence to a USA citizen choosing to infringe the copyright of a citizen of another country?
Or to put it another way;
Do you think USA citizens should respect the copyrights of people who are not USA citizens?
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It is my impression from schex86's posts that his position is current copyright legislation is no longer consistent with the original framers' intent and nothing more than that.
I think for the most part, any issues related to cross-border infringement fall under the
Berne Convention.
I suggest instead of discussing generalities, perhaps a more constructive discussion could be had related to a fairly recent issue, that of Amazon's deletion of 1984 and Animal Farm from customers' Kindles. The copyright on “1984” will not expire until 2044 in the United States, while it has already expired in other countries, including Canada, Australia and Russia where it is freely available.
Some slightly different questions but along the same lines as you proposed:
Should Cn, Au, and Ru citizens respect US copyright in this case?
Should US copyright even be an issue since Orwell was English?