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New IP Treaty Looming?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the sailing-into-troubled-waters dept.

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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  1. Our country... by grasshoppa · · Score: 5, Funny

    Our country is run by lawyers. No where is this more obvious than when seeing the lawmaking process. Greased palms, closed door deals.

    I have a solution, however. The problem is there are too many lawyers. They have no natural predator, as it were. I propose,then, a lawyer hunting season. Say, from Sept to March. Trophies are based on bank account size.

    Of course, mounting your kill is perfectly acceptable.

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  2. So who's the broadcaster? by Short+Circuit · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The guy who owns the server, the guy who paid for an account on the server, or the ISP the server colos at or is connected to?

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  3. You're missing the whole point... by dubmun · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It is our policy to push our ideas on as many nations as possible.

    It helps distract from the fact that the people of our country have no say of their own...

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  4. Simple answer: by schon · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The guy who owns the server, the guy who paid for an account on the server, or the ISP the server colos at or is connected to?

    The one with the most money to spend on lawyers.

  5. Re:Unconstitutional? by Vancorps · · Score: 5, Informative
    The constitution doesn't give us rights, its restricts what government can do. This is something that's been lost on most people for some reason. By default we're allowed to do whatever we want. The constiution merely says the government can do this to stop you because your freedom is interfering with the freedom of another citizen. That is the judge of whether something is constitutional or not.

    Granted, I have not done an in-depth study of the constitution either, that was just how I was taught about it in school.

    Of course, just because something isn't constitution doesn't mean it won't happen anyways.