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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 remember the last time some upstart European thought he could tromp all over the territorial rights of other countries. That didn't end so well for him.
His name?
Frank Stallone.
Eurpoe doesn't have nearly as much leverage as the US, but Canada is looking to diversify trading partners...
Europe needs resources far more than Canada needs Europe.
They are two branches of the same tree, and in reality to the average person they're so close together that when implemented you can't tell the difference between the two when you're at the bottom looking up (as 99.999% of people here are).
I can't believe they ever branched into two separate "trees" in academic thought though. A necessary thing for the intelligensia to do after the war given that they so completely bought into the various flavours of Socialism in the 20's and 30's and didn't want to be hung drawn and quartered by the survivors after the war was over for ever supporting the ugliest version of it (they simply loved the idea of Eugenics, and members of the current administration still do).
The thing about it though is that the true believers in both ideologies share almost exactly the same ideals culminating in one final goal: Total support for an all powerful elite that uses the state apparatus to run every aspect of the plebs lives and move us around like we're cattle for their own ends. The ends always being more money, power and control for them and theirs.
Those filthy rich PETA barons are buying up everything!
Maybe they'll be willing to trade their seal hunting for indoor plumbing and a life expectancy past 40. Not everything that's "traditional" is good.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Great, yet another one drinking the kool-aid.
#1 Clubbing seals is just stupid. Trust me, seals aren't as cute cuddly and friendly as you have been led to believe. Shooting them is A) the most humane way to go about it and B) the safest way and C) the surest way to make sure you actually, you know, GET the seal which is the end goal. Even the natives don't club them anymore. How stupid do people have to be to believe this "they're all out beating them to death with sticks" bullshit?
#2 They're not banned for any real reasons. The reasons are made up, bullshit. PETA was trying to get video of someone clubbing seals. You know what happened in the end? They PAID people to go club seals while they video taped it. Yes, PETA paid folks to go out and club seals. The ends justify the means though, right?
#3 You are comparing killing other human beings with killing another animal. We are omnivores, that means meat, we require the proteins from it. Absolute best case scenario we resort to keeping them in pens for their Milk and Eggs in order to get the proteins we need which in my opinion is actually LESS humane than letting them live and frolick naturally until killed for food.
#4 Yes, there are traditions that involve some sort of tool that was used at one point to hunt seals. I believe I've already covered the fact that this isn't used anymore, not by anyone doing it for a living. At most it is used for trational ritual type things. Should this practice be stopped? Sure. This is one thing I agree on. However you're going to have to get past all the cries of racism and persecution to do so, and those ones are a lot louder than the ones claiming 20 or so seals have been killed in a traditional fashion this year.