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Re:Internet in Iran gradually shuttting down due to protests by marcosdumay on Sunday November 17, 2019 @10:53AM (#21558430)
> Since Iran is not a signatory to any international copyright treaties

Getting off from a tangent, how does that work? Your copyrights are ignored on any other country? Or do your people do something to get some kind of "international copyrights"?

I imagine it does not make much difference for patents, is that right?

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Re:Internet in Iran gradually shuttting down due to protests by smnrchrds on Sunday November 17, 2019 @10:59AM (#21558457)
> Your copyrights are ignored on any other country?

Essentially yes. If a work is produced outside of Iran, it does not have any copyright protection in Iran, vice versa.

As an example, since Harry Potter was quite popular in Iran, multiple (at least six IIRC) publishers translated it to Persian for the Iranian market. One publisher could not take another one's translated version and re-print it—the translated version was produced in Iran and enjoyed copyright protection in Iran. But the original English version was fair game for anyone.

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