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Is that universal or just a USA thing?

• mindcrime 3y ago
  There are almost certainly going to be some exceptions, but copyright law is largely consistent in the broad brush strokes at least, among a large portion of the world's nations. See: https://copyrightresource.uw.edu/copyright-law/international-copyright-law/ https://copyrightresource.uw.edu/copyright-law/international...
• debugnik 3y ago
  It's a Berne Convention thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention
  • JimDabell 3y ago
    Not just the Berne Convention. TRIPS brought automatic copyright to WTO members as well, so it’s true of almost every country in the world.
    • debugnik 3y ago
      TIL. There are apparently more Berne Convention signatories than WTO members, though, so I guess the former still has more reach, but I assume the intersection isn't empty, so of course TRIPS must have had some impact as well.