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UK Government Order Review of IP Rights
quaker5567 writes "The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, has ordered an independent review of intellectual property rights in the UK. The review will be led by Andrew Gowers, formerly the editor of London newspaper The Financial Times. The review will look into the awarding of IP rights to business, the complexity of current laws and the extent of "fair use" in the current law. Importantly, the review will also examine whether the current term of copyright protection (70 years after the author's death) is appropriate. Andrew Gowers recently criticised the print industry for not realising the true power of the digital platform, comparing them to a record company which specialises in vinyl."
I don't think people have any idea what they're in for. Americans have never experienced 3rd world like conditions in over 150 years.
And they won't either. it doesn't matter a whole lot if the US economy suffers a total meltdown, for two reasons.
One, the US is the worlds largest consumer. If their economy suffers a meltdown, the whole earth will cascade down as a result. Moving to Cole won't help you out much, guess where most of their exposts go?
Two, even if such a thing happens, a poor economy does not make real-world assets vanish. No matter what happens to the economy, the US still has the worlds most powerful military. If they were in bad enough shape, I am sure they could just recall all their guys from abroad and take whatever resources they needed from smaller resource-rich nations by force or intimidation.