Re:Local simulation feature to be removed from all Autodesk ...
by kmeisthax on Saturday August 13, 2022 @02:02PM
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Because of the Brussels Effect.
The EU wanted a single copyright term for their single market, so they picked the member state with the longest term (Germany), made that the EU-wide standard, and then put in a reciprocal extension clause basically designed to force America to go life+70.
At the time Disney was pushing hard into the European market[0] and having uniform copyright rules between two major trading blocks would be a huge boon to them. Keeping the mouse slightly more under their thumb than it could have been otherwise was just a bonus.
[0] Even when it was losing them billions of dollars, such as with the EuroDisney debacle
The EU wanted a single copyright term for their single market, so they picked the member state with the longest term (Germany), made that the EU-wide standard, and then put in a reciprocal extension clause basically designed to force America to go life+70.
At the time Disney was pushing hard into the European market[0] and having uniform copyright rules between two major trading blocks would be a huge boon to them. Keeping the mouse slightly more under their thumb than it could have been otherwise was just a bonus.
[0] Even when it was losing them billions of dollars, such as with the EuroDisney debacle