Copyright term, film labeling, and film preservation legislation : hearings before the Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, first session, on H.R. 989, H.R. 1248, and H.R. 1734 ... June 1 and July 13, 1995 (1996)

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386 scientific and educational works on favorable terms." For the foreseeable future, in short, the developing countries have no reason to diminish their ovn competitive prospects or to otherwise burden their trade balances by exceeding the minimum international standards under the relevant treaties. Unless third countries were prodded into entering a harmonized E.U. U.S. framework, the MFN and national treatment provisions of the TRIPS Agreement could tend progressively to render their culttiral and technical products more competitive in the international market than the corresponding goods produced in territories that had succumbed to higher levels of protection. To the extent that higher levels of protection in developed countries actually triggered the disutilities that critics attribute to overly long terms of protection in general, the benefits accruing to more competitively manufactured products in developing countries would fruther increase once the learning curve and other built-in disabilities afflicting producers in these countries were overcome. This course of conduct would undoubtedly subject developing countries to new trade pressures attempting to elicit higher levels of protection. Yet, the hard truth is that luch pressures will only generate countervailing demands for further trade concessions to offset the social costs of more intellectual " See Berne Convention, supra note 3, art. 21 and Appendix; Guide to the Berne Convention. bUBTA note 48, at 105, 146-75.