sentences:  But Title 17 of the United States Code does not contain any article on the rule of the shorter term.The only mention of such a rule was added in 1994 with the URAA in 17 USC 104A, which automatically restored copyrights on many foreign works, unless these works had already fallen in the public domain in their country of origin on the URAA date, which is January 1, 1996 for most foreign countries.Because there is no general rule of the shorter term in U.S.