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Canada & Korea Show Trade Treaties Can Skip Copyright Rule Changes
An anonymous reader writes "Canada and South Korea announced agreement on a comprehensive
trade agreement earlier today. Michael Geist reports
that the intellectual property chapter is significant for what it
does not include. Unlike many other trade deals — particularly those
involving the U.S., European Union, and Australia — the Canada-South
Korea deal is content to leave domestic intellectual property rules
largely untouched. Instead, the approach is to reaffirm the
importance of intellectual property and ensure that both countries
meet their international obligations, but not to use trade
agreements as a backdoor mechanism to increase IP protections. That
means no copyright term extension, no three-strikes and you're out
rules, and increase to pharma patents."
Take back Bieber.
Take it back. No joke.
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
The deal is with North Korea.
---- The above post was generated by the Turing Institute. Maybe.
You owe us beer and get to keep Bieber until the next Winter Olympics.
This sounds like how ACTA and TPP should be. Just shows what the evil intentions the USA always like to throw into the mix. Now if only Yellowstone would hurry up and consume that shithole the world would be better off.
Face it, the only country that keeps pushing for IP protections is the largest IP producer of them all - the United States. If the US was involved in the trade talks, IP would've been on the table.
But between South Korea and Canada? Both aren't really well known heavy IP producers - sure there are plenty of content produced, but it's but a tiny part of the economies, and people don't generally associate various IP products with Canada. Think of movies, you think Hollywood. Etc. The US is all about exporting its culture through IP products.
After all, what's there to protect? Samsung can steal the latest design for the Blackberry for what anyone really cares about. Unless you orient your keys a certain way, that is.
Canada never *has* tried to force other nations to bow to our will, much the will of Hollywood, unlike the Jackboot States of America.
With the US, every agreement has "riders" and "add-ons" that have nothing to do with the primary intent of the agreement. I believe this stems from the US habit of running all their legislation with such "back door" items buried in the fine print of Congress.
I do not fail; I succeed at finding out what does not work.
There aren't a lot of content that's flowed/wanted between the 2 countries - why bother. Like Canadian interests of Korean drama, or Korean appetite for Tie Domi doing figure skating.
Seeing as most of the trade seems to consists of things like "Wood" and "Food" I doubt IP is really a big deal for either.
Sure, sure. On the other hand we can probably figure out how to kill each other with guns without too much help from the US.
when I buy a DVD and put it on my TV the first thing I'll see is some fucking American corporation telling me what an evil person I am.
I should have realised that contrary to the accepted fact that the US is one of the greatest IP theives in history it's actually the US who does ALL the innovation and I should be thankful I'm even allowed to purchase their products.
I think Harper's attacks on democracy have a lot to do with it.