Family members in different country.

At the bottom under Learn More:

Sharing purchased content with Family Sharing - http://support.apple.com/HT201085 - "With Family Sharing, family members get immediate access to each others’ music, movies, TV shows, books, and apps, and can download them to their own devices any time they like.*" "* Not all content and content types are available in all countries. To share purchased content, all family members must use the same iTunes Store country or region. Music, movies, TV shows, and books can be downloaded on up to 10 devices per account, five of which can be computers. Apps can be downloaded to any devices the family member owns or controls."

Country limitations are to be expected as material is licensed differently under each country. If you buy a gun in the USA, which you can do very easily and legally, can you share it with your family in China, or the UK?

All purchases are region-specific. The licence agreement that you get is only for the region that you purchased it in. That's why apps, music and videos very often are different in different regions and may not be available everywhere.

In addition to reasons Limnos already cited, if you made those purchases available to users in other regions, you would be breaking the copyright and distribution regulations that you signed to.

Limnos wrote:

At the bottom under Learn More:

Sharing purchased content with Family Sharing - http://support.apple.com/HT201085 - "With Family Sharing, family members get immediate access to each others’ music, movies, TV shows, books, and apps, and can download them to their own devices any time they like.*" "* Not all content and content types are available in all countries. To share purchased content, all family members must use the same iTunes Store country or region. Music, movies, TV shows, and books can be downloaded on up to 10 devices per account, five of which can be computers. Apps can be downloaded to any devices the family member owns or controls."

Country limitations are to be expected as material is licensed differently under each country. If you buy a gun in the USA, which you can do very easily and legally, can you share it with your family in China, or the UK?

Thanks.

SO, my wife is American, and I am Canadian. Not only can we not share, but we cannot import one of our accounts to another country. If she could transfer her account to Canada, and abid by their rules and regulations, this wouldn't be a problem.

Each country has its own copyright laws and the issue stems from that. After all, Apple's interest as a multinational for-profit corporation is to make you happy so you spend as much money as possible on their products. However, I could see trying to manage each individual's purchases on a multinational basis being nearly impossible and just make a simple rule along the lines of borders.

Your wife can transfer her Apple ID to the Canadian store but she will not have access to materials purchased in other countries except for what she brings with her on her computer. It sounds to me like you need to invest in a couple of hard drives to make sure you do not need to re-download USA purchases and not worry about trying to use Apple to deal with that media. No, you won't be able to upgrade apps purchased in the USA but there's some things you just have to adjust to when you move countries. Let her embrace your health care system.

Change your iTunes Store country or region - https://support.apple.com/HT201389

We are living in Sweden but I use a Danish Apple ID how can we share a family "plan"?

Apple have obligations to content providers not to permit cross-border sales. Limiting Family Sharing to users whose accounts are all set to the same regional store accomplishes this.

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