The core copyright law is not a western thing - while it's not completely universal, the Berne convention harmonizes it to almost all countries in the world, se

The core copyright law is not a western thing - while it's not completely universal, the Berne convention harmonizes it to almost all countries in the world, see map at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention#/media/File:Berne_Convention_signatories.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention#/media/File:B... . It doesn't apply in Iran and Somalia, for example, but in does apply in all the economies from China to Chile, even in North Korea.