Post originally by Dan at 2003-07-28 20:52:39
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Zoran wrote:

"The Fu Manchu stories were indeed reprinted in the United States, but that doesn't invalidate their copyrights."

No, not in Britain, but the copyrights in the U.S. follow the U.S. law based upon first U.S. publication. Thus many of the stories

"Again, you seem to have difficulty with the notion that the United States of America is not the be-all or the end-all of the universe. Stop trying to impose old American practice on the rest of the world."

You have difficulty understanding that this thread was posted on a U.S. website, discussing a U.S. movie and U.S. comic book series, discussing U.S. copyright laws. You are the one giving irrelevant facts about laws of a country that aren't related to what we are talking about, and assumed that those laws applied in the U.S. as well. When it was pointed out that you were wrong, you got on this anti-American kick.