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Episode #144 -- Berne Convention
It Was 20 Years Ago Today
English - March 02, 2009 05:31 - 5 minutes - 5.32 MB - ★★★★ - 2 ratingsHistory News Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Sunday, March 1, 2009. Twenty years ago today, the provisions of the Berne Convention came into effect in the United States. I talk about the Berne Convention, copyright law (from the point of view of an interested layperson, not a lawyer) and share a story about how Joe and I got caught up in the complexities of copyright, about a decade ago.