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Australia To Adopt U.S.-Style Copyright Laws
An anonymous reader submits "Australia has just announced that it has finalized a Free Trade Agreement with the United States. Included in the treaty is an agreement for Australia to implement American-style DMCA copyright laws, extensions to the term of copyright, and an agreement to move towards American-style patent and trademark laws (and we all know how well those work, don't we.) I suppose this is the misery-loves-company school of treaty negotiation."
Not exactly.
What you are referring to is "Direct Democracy" - such as in the times of Ancient Greece, this is obviously IMPOSSIBLE to follow in this day and age, and so representative democracy is usually used along with the Mandate model - where politicans promise to do certain things - the public then votes for them based on their promises - and then the politician carries these out and is representing the public.
It's the same all over the world, it's a form of democracy, and doesn't mean the US is not a democracy.
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