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Bill: Technology Act (2135)
Details
Submitted by[?]: Deltarian Nationalist 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: November 2138
Description[?]:
| Bill to protect an artist/designers creations for a limited length of time. If there are no copyright laws then a designer/artist/scientist etc... has no control over the use of what they have made and would be detrimental financially for them. I propose that there should be a copyright on a design for a limited period of time (say about 50 years or possibly have it that a patent cannot be left in a will). This would incourage production and research as the designer/artist/scientist etc... would have more money to invest in his projects. |
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 techology and art have limited copy protection.
Proposed: Works of techology and art have limited copy protection.
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 | 17:55:14, November 03, 2005 CET | From |   Liberal-Progressive Union | To | Debating the Technology Act (2135) |
| Message | Aye |
| Date | 18:59:02, November 03, 2005 CET | From | We Say So! Party | To | Debating the Technology Act (2135) |
| Message | Put a description and reasoning. Again, this is meant to be a law, not just a statement of intent. |
| Date | 19:22:47, November 07, 2005 CET | From | National Imperial Hobrazian Front | To | Debating the Technology Act (2135) |
| Message | No- copyrights hamper innovation. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 63 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 135 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 202 |
| Random fact: Particracy does not allow real-life fictional references (eg. Gandalf, Harry Potter, Luke Skywalker). |
| Random quote: "The communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas." - Karl Marx |