[bryanrasmussen]

I agree my hypothetical is a long shot, but it is mainly just to illustrate that even if the U.S took this hypothetical road and decided to argue for cutting copyright back to something like 20 years that people on HN often seem to think is the way to go, it is unlikely that European countries would find that acceptable - which means that probably it would get dropped because it would be a pretty big issue if in Europe it was 70 years and in US it was 20.