New IP Treaty Looming?

An anonymous reader writes "According to an article by James Boyle in the Financial Times, the United States is helping push a Treaty that would create an entirely new type of intellectual property right in the US, in addition to copyright, covering anything that is broadcast or webcast. (Regardless of whether the work was in the public domain, Creative Commons Licensed etc, the broadcaster would control any copies made from the broadcast for 50 years.) Boyle argues that this is dumb, unconstitutional, and anyway should be debated domestically first."

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Re:Come on...

[JayDot]

Hmm, I must be residing in an alternate universe. I notice all kinds of debate going on about US policy. Debate about whether to remove an anti-human dictator and he's genocidal, rape-prone sons. Debate about whether it was right to help 25+ million into the free, representative world. Debate about whether we should kill people who are in a coma for too long. As a matter of fact I get in these types of debates all the time, and there are a bunch of politicians who debate it for a living. I'm afraid that I find your contention about a lack of debate incorrect. There is plenty of debate, it's just that one side keeps winning (as shown by the election results) whilst the other side continues to annoy people with their lack of intellectual (and moral) honesty.