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Re:What Could Have Been Entering the Public Domain on Januar... by barrkel on Monday January 03, 2011 @05:42AM (#2062772)
This "interesting question" is, as I understand it, the basis for the usual ratcheting up of copyright terms. One side says "we must harmonize with the other side", but they go a little further, and then harmonization happens on the other side, and so forth.
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