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Honduras has life + 75 years. Also some countries provide circumstantial extensions e.g. France's copyright is life + 70, but if the author is "Mort pour la France" (died for France, which is usually applied to service members but may also apply to civilians) it's life + 80.

France also added a few years here and there. For example the period in WW2 when France was occupied by Nazi Germany doesn't count for copyright.

A few countries did that, but those extensions were mostly predicated on a 50 years copyright (the "morts pour la france" extension also is, it's 30 years tacked onto the original 50). When copyright got normalised to 70 by EU rules (or separately extended before EU or EU entry), these extensions became moot in EU countries. IIRC Russia is the only country where war copyright extensions still apply, as a 4 years extension was specifically added when they rewrote their copyright laws in 1993.

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