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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

Debate

These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:

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FromRadical Centrists
ToDebating the Ban wholesale plagiarism
MessageWe agree, though it's spelt 'plagiarism'. ;-)

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From Free Reform Coalition (FRP)
ToDebating the Ban wholesale plagiarism
MessageWe're with you

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FromLibCom Party
ToDebating the Ban wholesale plagiarism
MessageSo 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.

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From Protectorate Party
ToDebating the Ban wholesale plagiarism
MessageThe 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.

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From Protectorate Party
ToDebating the Ban wholesale plagiarism
MessageSo although the libCom party speaks of protecting the authors they are not in actuality willing to defend them.

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FromLibCom Party
ToDebating the Ban wholesale plagiarism
MessageWe 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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