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EU Demands Canada Gut Its Copyright and Patent Laws
An anonymous reader writes "Late last year, a draft of the European Union proposal for the
intellectual property chapter of Canada, EU Comprehensive Economic
Trade Agreement, leaked online.
The leak revealed that the EU was seeking some significant changes to
Canadian IP laws. Negotiations have continued and Michael Geist
has now obtained an updated copy
of the draft chapter, complete with proposals from both the EU and
Canada. He says the breadth of the demands is stunning — the EU
is demanding nothing less than a complete overhaul of Canadian IP laws
including copyright, trademark, databases, patent, geographic
indications, and even plant variety rights."
I, for one, welcome our new EU Overlords!
Well, they also demanded we stop the seal hunt. Are they going to request that we all wear visors while playing hockey too? Honestly. How naive.
I say we take Alberta first, just to make Ontario Jealous. Then add them one by one, leaving Quebec for last. Just because they're going to be the hardest to convince. I suggest a heavy does of New Orleans style persuasion complete with mardi gras tickets.
Since when did the EU run Canada?
"Fuck off, eh!"
Ottawa can always threaten the Europeans with the American army.
And to think that the EU had taken such a great stand with the ACTA. Then this has to happen.
Our culture doesn't get smarter, it just finds new ways of being retarded.
Well, everyone can demand everything. I also can demand that you give me a billion euros, immediately. Now, there's little chance that I'll get that, and no one will consider that demand justified, but I can demand it nevertheless.
So, where is my money? :-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
and what is the EU going to do? Give them a very dirty look?
Thats Take off eh you hoser
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
Seriously, as a Canadian this disgusts me. The EU, the US... What the hell gives these assholes the right to demand ANYTHING?
Calm down, mate. If a chief of some remote Polynesian tribe demands tomorrow that all the pale-skins from the Great White North shall submit to the will of his powerful god Yaka-Yaka, or else suffer his wrath, are you going to pay attention as well?
If not, then treat this case the same way. After all, fundamentally, it is the same.
Sign Ze Treaty or We Will Taunt You A Second Time!
would Zimbabwean Dollars do?
Deja Moo: The feeling you've heard this bullsh*t before.
Whatever Europe doesn't eat, I'll eat.
Would that be "Up yours, mate!" or "May I have some more, sir?"
You're thinking of Australia. Our response would be "Up yours, eh?"
I'm pretty sure they count as terrorism and are against the Geneva Conventions.
Present the digitus impudicus.
You hit the nail on the head. If Canada don't comply we'll set Harry Potter and his school chums on you...
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Ah, so you think that the EU has the right to dictate Canadian law?
Might makes right.