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In 1994, Canada, the United States, and Mexico implemented the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), designed to provide a framework for the governance of a North American economy.One of the most significant parts of the agreement was Chapter 17, dealing with intellectual property (IP) and designed to bring Mexican IP law into line with that of the United States -Canadian IP law was already substantially similar to that of the U.S. Referring to the copyright sections of Chapter 17, 2 Acheson and Maule (1996) describe the treaty as one step in the continuing harmonization of North American copyright law, itself embedded in a process of global harmonization spearheaded by the 1995 Agreement on the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) at the World Trade Organization (WTO).While NAFTA certainly reoriented Mexican copyright law from a traditional focus on copyright as a human right protecting authors from such things as false attribution and ensuring the integrity of works (known as moral rights) toward a greater (U.S.-like) focus on copyright as an economic right accruing to owners -as opposed to creators-it has not ushered in a "North American" copyright regime.Neither has Mexico and Canada's tighter incorporation into the economic orbit of the regional and global hegemon led to the wholesale adoption of U.S.-desired copyright policies -all the stranger because since the mid-1980s, the United States has placed IP and copyright policy at the heart of its international economic agenda.3 Instead, somewhat ironically, NAFTA has allowed Canada and Mexico (and the U.S.) some leeway to pursue independent copyright policies, within a global copyright regime shaped largely by the United States.Over 15 years after NAFTA came into effect, domestic factors continue to be at least as significant as U.S.-based pressures for harmonization in the making of copyright policy.Using a historical institutionalist perspective, which emphasizes historical contingency and institutional persistence, this article examines the North American implementation of two U.S.-backed treaties

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