Europe is already in line. Where the U.S. is exercising its muscle on IP
issues is mainly Latin America (where many countries like Brazil,
Belize, and Jamaica still have reasonable IP laws). The U.S. commonly
pressures Latin American countries on IP issues when negotiating trade
agreements.
Obviously we have a lot of work to do to reform U.S. copyright law (rule
of the shorter term, freedom of panorama, etc.), but it would be nice if
we don't actually shrink our public domain in the meantime.
Ryan Kaldari
On 6/23/11 12:02 PM, geni wrote:
On 23 June 2011 19:38, David
Gerard<dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Considering that that's precisely the point -
that if the US starts
re-enclosing the public domain, it will use its influence to get other
countries to do the same - and I expressly said so upthread, well, no,
I'm not going to argue that. Do try to keep up.
A bit late no? Other countries
have done precisely that. The UK when
we jumped from life+50 to life+70. In fact if anything the influence
has so far been the other way around. The rest of the world signed up
for the Bern convention and Europe went in the direction of life+70
then the US did.