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Bill: Innovation Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: National Bolshevik Party
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: February 2612
Description[?]:
| To encourage companies to develop and research new software techniques by allowing them the right to patent and be rewarded with exclusivity for a period of time in order to make profit. Software is information just like that of a blueprint for a lightblub or fighter jet. All patents are patents of information. We should not punish firms for spending huge amounts of money developing new, more efficient software by letting their competitors reap all the benefits second-handedly. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The patenting of software techniques.
Old value:: Software designs, techniques, formulae and algorithms cannot be patented.
Current: Software patents can be obtained from the patent office.
Proposed: Software patents can be obtained from the patent office.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:26:49, July 26, 2008 CET | From | Progress and Liberty Party | To | Debating the Innovation Act |
| Message | Oppose. Intellectual property is how software monopolies are formed. |
| Date | 01:45:33, July 26, 2008 CET | From | Dranland First Party (CC) | To | Debating the Innovation Act |
| Message | We can see no reason why software should not be allowed to be patented just as other intellectual property can. If creators cannot obtain patents for their ideas, others could freely steal ideas and take credit for something they had no part in creating. As for the possibility of software monopolies, perhaps this is just the nature of this particular market. Much similar to a private train company market, monopoly or oligarchy may in fact be inevitable. Whilst the government should try to protect the market from such corruptions, we do not think that banning copyrights is the best strategy. We can certainly support this legislation. |
| Date | 03:56:07, July 26, 2008 CET | From | National Bolshevik Party | To | Debating the Innovation Act |
| Message | Monopolies can form from ANY patent. That's why they expire after a certain time period. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 123 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 74 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 68 |
| Random fact: Any RP law granting extraordinary "emergency powers" or dictator-like powers to a government must be passed by at least a 2/3rds majority, but (like all RP laws) may always be overturned by a simple majority vote of the legislature. |
| Random quote: "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." - Woody Allen, on the Ku Klux Klan |