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Re:Negotiators Lose Last Chance to Salvage the TPP by Caving... by pgeorgi on Thursday February 05, 2015 @09:43AM (#9003419)
The life + x years (with x a significant number) is a European thing and has a different origin than copyright: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors%27_rights

Since the Berne Convention mandates life + 50 for a large class of publications, it's hard to go below that (both for the EU and the US)

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