As a foreign student of mine pointed out, to Westerners, copyright is a social bribe, or at least a payoff so as to encourage individual authors to create. In the East, artists gain validity not from creating, but by mimicking previous works.
Copying proves the users' comprehension of the core of the civilization itself.
To us, copying is plagiarism. And GATT does not consider the ramifications of the electronic age, and users rights. Every use of a work on the Internet, such as browsing and borrowing, is a reproduction and, therefore, an opportunity for publishers' profit. The Helms-Burton Act penalizes foreign countries doing business in Cuba. In a sense, every treaty violates some part of sovereignty.