It may seem that he has no judicial authority to do that, and indeed there have been recent cases where US judges have tried to make rulings which were enforceable elsewhere, which we thought were wrong. However, in this case I do believe that, although the judge has no authority outside the US, the Berne and other subsequent copyright conventions require that copyright elsewhere is dependent on the copyright terms in the country of origin (e.g. "Mickey Mouse" copyright does apply in the UK, even though it is well beyond the time we allow), so I think that Berne etc really will make this ruling stick worldwide.|

Of course the judge knows that, which is why he specifically said what he did.

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