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US Ignores Unwelcome WTO IP Rulings
Eye Log writes "The United States is a big fan of leaning on other countries to tighten IP and copyright protection, but has a tendency to ignore its own obligations when it doesn't get its way. 'Two ongoing cases illustrate the point. First, the European Union is pushing for the US to change a pair of rules that it calls "long-standing trade irritants." Despite World Trade Organization rulings against it, the US has not yet corrected either case for a period of several years... Apparently, it's easy to get hot and bothered when it's industries from your country that claim to be badly affected by rules elsewhere. When it comes to the claims of other countries, though, even claims that have been validated by the WTO, it's much easier to see the complexity of the situation, to spend years arguing those complexities before judges, and to do nothing even when compelled by rulings.'"
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<sarc>Yeah, but everyone knows that Irish music sucks so its just not the same as when people copy Brittney Spears.</sarc>
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This just in... Al Gore is pissed.
If the WTO wants American politicians to listen them, then they need to pony up with the 'campaign funding' like everyone else.
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
The Federal government here in the US is allowing corporate interests to screw us, it's citizens, why not the rest of the world too? At least it's consistent.
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Similar to the upcoming US election results
It's hypocritical for representatives of the US government to lambaste other countries for WTO "violations", when the US Government turns a blind eye to infringement happening in their own country.
In the words of our Vice President: So?
Leave the gun, take the cannolis.
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If I mod you up, it doesn't necessarily mean I agree with what you've said, sorry.
Classic joke: How do you tell the difference between a Canadian and an American travelling abroad?
The Canadian only has _one_ maple leaf on his backpack.
"People who do stupid things with hazardous materials often die." -- Jim Davidson on alt.folklore.urban
Yeah, sure, but you saddled us with William Shatner. We're not budging on the lumber until you take him back.
"The Revolutionary War took place due to a foreign "government" trying to rule US citizens."
Because, as we all know, the US was established _before_ that war, and everybody was a citizen of it, hence the fact that the later civil war against something called "The Confederacy" was a fiction invented by pseudo-historians to sell books. New Mexico and Texas were of course always part of that US, and not, as these pseudo-historians claim, Mexican territories at that time.
I'm not going to change your sheets again, Mr. Hastings.
Should add a policy to kill the judge, just for completeness.
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
It's pretty much a standing joke in the EU, that there's a hypothetical department that comes up with stupid rules just so that everyone can laugh at the British for trying to implement them when every other country knows not to bother...
Antigua? Isn't that the country that has recently swore allegiance to Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein's ghost?
I overheard a chance conversation between Dick Cheney and (MP&RI)AA's consiglieres, and they're worried about recent evidence that Antigua has nearly completed a WMD program of some kind (probably something to do with coconuts; dangerous biological weapons, those coconuts) and must be brought to compliance.
Definitely Clinton. I mean come on, he got a good blowjob from a sexy young girl, and LIED to congress about it!
OH MY GOD! Can you believe it?
He lied to his family, his friends and betrayed the whole country!
Because of his lies, the pope died and a famine ravaged the south.
Because he lied, Bin Laden got mad and blew up planes and towers.
What a corrupt man.
He ought to be sentenced to death for manslaughter.
aaahhhhh.. now i have released my whole day's tension.
Now what was it you were talking about??
"Doing what i can, with what i have." ~ Burt Gummer