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We spent the Trump years strongarming the rest of the world into uniform copyright laws. What happens now? “JK guys actually you can forget about what we said”. It seems that the only real option is to maintain copyright laws for all other countries while shortening your own. It seems like a huge competitive disadvantage for a country to be the first to do that.

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Trump wasn't particularly special for this. In fact, by tanking TPP, he actually stopped at least one massive tool for curtailing IP sovereignty.

Not making a flattering statement about Trump here, just that _he_ wasn't _the problem_, in this and other things.

That said, "jk guys actually you can forget about what we said" would be fantastic for this and many other things our government has made part of its international doctrine, and might be a thing it would even do if our government had any interest in governing for our benefit rather than for a tiny minority.

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