373:. I have to agree. Owing to the nature of Knowledge, it would be impossible to maintain an article of this nature that would not run into issues involving different laws. I could see, perhaps, separate articles on different countries. But the problem is copyright rules change from time to time. Didn't the US recently add a bunch more decades to the copyright term, for example?
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