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Comment by kube-system

3 days ago

But they don't; they all currently have strong copyright law.

Largely because of American diplomatic/soft power, which has been significantly weakened of late, protecting the interests of American media conglomerates.

Every extension of copyright for the last several decades has been driven by the desire to keep Mickey Mouse out of the public domain.

  • They did that around the world, but they didn't have to in Europe -- Europe has pretty consistently had longer copyright terms than the US. The EU moved to life + 70 in 1993. The US did in 1998.

    Regardless, my point is that copyright evasion is not anything that any European authority is interested in building a website to facilitate.