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50 years from first publication. That's all the TRIPS agreement requires.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIPS_Agreement



And that's still a lot, since fifty years from publication is the minimum to abide to TRIPS, but we're used to much worse, so it doesn't sound as bad now. It could be shorter, things move a lot faster nowadays, a single generation of monopoly means more today than a hundred years ago.




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