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Bill: Ban wholesale plagiarism
Details
Submitted by[?]: Protectorate Party
Status[?]: defeated
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: December 2042
Description[?]:
This bill attempt to protect our publishing industry, by permitting a short term copyright, in regards to other publishers, when material is first published. Thus permitting the publisher to recover the cost of editing and marketing. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Protection of original works of technology and arts.
Old value:: Technology and art are part of the commons and are not protected by copyright.
Current: Works of technology and art are protected by copyright.
Proposed: Works of techology and art have limited copy protection.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
Date | not recorded | From | Radical Centrists | To | Debating the Ban wholesale plagiarism |
Message | We agree, though it's spelt 'plagiarism'. ;-) |
Date | not recorded | From | Free Reform Coalition (FRP) | To | Debating the Ban wholesale plagiarism |
Message | We're with you |
Date | not recorded | From | LibCom Party | To | Debating the Ban wholesale plagiarism |
Message | So you want to give copyright protection to the publishers, not to the authors? If you were proposing limited protection for the authors it might be worth considering, but this is a very definite no. |
Date | not recorded | From | Protectorate Party | To | Debating the Ban wholesale plagiarism |
Message | The copyright does go to the authors but typically they surrender that right to the publisher in exchange for publishing the work. I am strongly in favor of authors keeping the copyright. OOC: especially in research publications, but that is a whole other debate. IC: the copyright will initially go to the author, what they do with it afterwards is their buisness. This goal is to establish protection from theft when a work is first published. |
Date | not recorded | From | Protectorate Party | To | Debating the Ban wholesale plagiarism |
Message | So although the libCom party speaks of protecting the authors they are not in actuality willing to defend them. |
Date | not recorded | From | LibCom Party | To | Debating the Ban wholesale plagiarism |
Message | We said it might be worth considering, rather than being a very definite no. We have considered, and decided against. |
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Voting
Vote | Seats | |||||
yes | Total Seats: 34 | |||||
no |
Total Seats: 66 | |||||
abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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