Copyright Laws Of Argentina (Liz Marroquin)

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Copyright Laws of Argentina-(Liz Marroquin)

Argentina 's first copyright law was created all the way back in 1933. Today section 2 of this law gives copyright owners almost complete control over there work. After 70 years copyrighted work falls into public domain and Argentina is one of the few countries left to enforce a tax to users who wish to use works in public domain. The tax is a pretty big issue there and and back in 2012 the government tried to pass a bill where public libraries, archives, and museums would be exempt from the tax but were sadly met with strong opposition from collecting agencies and was not passed. They also have no fair use laws currently. Record labels there have always been allowed to be in charge of their own retailing and distribution of music. Since the explosion of the internet, however, illegal downloading has gone through the roof with 90% of Argentina 's online music transfers illegal.

Argentina 's copyright and the U.S

In 1995 Argentina joined the World Trade Organization. Between 1999 and 2002 the United States …show more content…

There are a few minor differences between the two countries; one of the differences between the two countries is the time limit on how long a copyright lasts. The time limit for Canada for copyright is lifetime of the author plus 50 years compared to the United States which is lifetime of the author plus 70 years (Abramovitch, Caron, & Sartorio, 2013). Another difference between the two countries is the use of Fair Use; the Canadian version part of Copyright Law is that it is little bit more strict than United States (Abramovitch, Caron, & Sartorio, 2013). Also in the courts of Canada it was found that if inside the “computer programming that is dictated by the operating system or reflects common programing practices is not original expression and will not receive copyright protection” (Horne,

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