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askBeehaw: should copyright even exist at all? and if it should, how long should the ideal term of copyright be? (beehaw.org)
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[โ€“] HelixTitan@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The US government?

[โ€“] BrikoX@vlemmy.net 5 points 1 year ago

Each country has it's own copyright office. So you would need to pay in each of them where your work is distributed. They are just enforced almost globaly as majority of countries signed an agrement to recognize them.