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Bill: Right to Patents (Sept 2109; originally defeated Jan 2093)
Details
Submitted by[?]: Lodamun Centre-Left Coalition
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: November 2110
Description[?]:
| The PCL note that it expects this bill to fail, as the original May 2092 bill did, but will nonetheless push for patent reform again. Currently in Lodamun, intellectual property is not protected by copyright or patent. Lodamun's people have the right to keep what is their own; currently our laws seem to suggest that work, be it in technological or scientific advances, et cetera, could be effectively taken away for free, and a claim could even be put in for someone else's hard work. The PCL call for an end to this and call for people to have the right to protect their work. Give the people what they deserve. All patents will be valid for life plus 15 years. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Protection of original works of technology and arts.
Old value:: Works of techology and art have limited copy protection.
Current: Works of technology and art are protected by copyright.
Proposed: Works of technology and art are protected by copyright.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The patenting of software techniques.
Old value:: Software designs, techniques, formulae and algorithms cannot be patented.
Current: Software designs, techniques, formulae and algorithms cannot be patented.
Proposed: Software patents can be obtained from the patent office.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 09:09:54, September 12, 2005 CET | From |  Tuesday Is Coming | To | Debating the Right to Patents (Sept 2109; originally defeated Jan 2093) |
| Message | Supported, again... TiC doesnt feel very strongly on this issue...but we do believe that property rights should extend to intellectual property. |
| Date | 16:39:03, September 12, 2005 CET | From | Royal Conservative Party | To | Debating the Right to Patents (Sept 2109; originally defeated Jan 2093) |
| Message | Supported |
| Date | 18:25:00, September 12, 2005 CET | From | Cooperative Commonwealth Federation | To | Debating the Right to Patents (Sept 2109; originally defeated Jan 2093) |
| Message | we do not see the need for this; creative commons licences are far more useful. |
| Date | 22:17:28, September 12, 2005 CET | From | CNT/AFL | To | Debating the Right to Patents (Sept 2109; originally defeated Jan 2093) |
| Message | Strongly opposed, the ability to patent software codes will be like being able to patent mathematical equations, and limited copy protection is suffiicent for the rest. |
| Date | 22:18:57, September 12, 2005 CET | From | Tuesday Is Coming | To | Debating the Right to Patents (Sept 2109; originally defeated Jan 2093) |
| Message | It should be noted that software codes already in existence, currently unprotected, will not be affected ex post facto by this law. |
| Date | 23:43:51, September 12, 2005 CET | From | National People's Gang | To | Debating the Right to Patents (Sept 2109; originally defeated Jan 2093) |
| Message | We're unlikely to support, being in favour of creative commons. |
| Date | 08:05:39, September 13, 2005 CET | From | Chorus of Amyst | To | Debating the Right to Patents (Sept 2109; originally defeated Jan 2093) |
| Message | The Chorus supports Article 1, but Article 2 is akin to allowing patents on words and sentence forms as well as the novel made of such words. We cannot support the second proposal. |
| Date | 08:56:12, September 13, 2005 CET | From | Tuesday Is Coming | To | Debating the Right to Patents (Sept 2109; originally defeated Jan 2093) |
| Message | TiC wishes that the PCL had split the bill on the recommendation of the Chorus... |
| Date | 11:24:28, September 13, 2005 CET | From | Chorus of Amyst | To | Debating the Right to Patents (Sept 2109; originally defeated Jan 2093) |
| Message | (( Yes, fear the reprisal of our massive number of votes! :D To be fair, I think I only posted AFTER the bill was put to vote. )) |
| Date | 15:59:10, September 13, 2005 CET | From | Tuesday Is Coming | To | Debating the Right to Patents (Sept 2109; originally defeated Jan 2093) |
| Message | Ah... I assumed you did so before, because afterwards it seems rather pointless... ; ) I fully expect the CA to be as powerful as the AC once was... Sorry PCL. |
| Date | 19:02:22, September 13, 2005 CET | From | Cooperative Commonwealth Federation | To | Debating the Right to Patents (Sept 2109; originally defeated Jan 2093) |
| Message | The Chorus makes a valuable point, even if they had to shout it from the Visitor's Gallery! |
| Date | 19:49:54, September 13, 2005 CET | From | National People's Gang | To | Debating the Right to Patents (Sept 2109; originally defeated Jan 2093) |
| Message | ...damned hecklers...disturbing our sleep. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 135 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 75 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 62 |
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