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Originally Posted by Sparrow
Is it not the case that copyright is determined by the country of origin for signatories to the Berne Convention (inc. Canada)?
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I am pretty sure this is not how the Berne Convention works.
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The Berne Convention requires its signatories to recognise the copyright of works of authors from other signatory countries (known as members of the Berne Union) in the same way it recognises the copyright of its own nationals, which means that, for instance, French copyright law applies to anything published or performed in France, regardless of where it was originally created.
In addition to establishing a system of equal treatment that internationalised copyright amongst signatories, the agreement also required member states to provide strong minimum standards for copyright law.
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And the minimal standard for copyright law in Canada is (
Wikipedia):
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Canada and New Zealand have not, as of 2006, passed similar twenty-year extensions. Consequently, their copyright expiry times are still life of the author plus 50 years.
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