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Bill: Improving Culture Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Zardugal Trade Unionist 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: February 2155
Description[?]:
| The time for culture reform has come. |
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: Technology and art are part of the commons and are not protected by copyright.
Proposed: Technology and art are part of the commons and are not protected by copyright.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change National, cultural and historic sites and monuments.
Old value:: This matter is left up to the local governments.
Current: The state actively protects scenery, localities, cultural, and historical sites; it maintains an agency to preserve them untouched if public interest so requires.
Proposed: The state actively protects scenery, localities, cultural, and historical sites; it maintains an agency to preserve them untouched if public interest so requires.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy towards the funding of libraries.
Old value:: Funding and operation of libraries is left entirely to local governments.
Current: The national government provides local governments with funding to operate libraries.
Proposed: The national government provides local governments with funding to operate libraries.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 07:19:33, December 11, 2005 CET | From |  Roman Imperialist Party | To | Debating the Improving Culture Bill |
| Message | Against all articles. Articles 2 and 3 increase the government's budgets, and with the tax bills under vote, will create a deficit. As for Article 1, a creation of any type is private property. The creator owns it and has all rights to do with as he/she pleases. |
| Date | 07:27:11, December 11, 2005 CET | From | Zardugal Trade Unionist Party | To | Debating the Improving Culture Bill |
| Message | Then maybe the current tax bills should be altered...just a thought. As for article one, a creation of any type is not private property. Technology could be refering to the creation or mapping of new genomes in bioligical organisms, new software or the like, any of which would provide more good for the people if they belong to the people, not just to individual citizens/corporations. And isn't that what we're all here to do? help the people? |
| Date | 08:07:22, December 12, 2005 CET | From | New Daio Party | To | Debating the Improving Culture Bill |
| Message | It is the government's place to provide order and rule of law, nothing more. To ask anything else of the state is to ask too much. |
| Date | 08:09:26, December 12, 2005 CET | From | Zardugal Trade Unionist Party | To | Debating the Improving Culture Bill |
| Message | The role of the government is to ensure that the people are going to survive, not only physically but also mentally. order and rule of law are simply part of that equation. To ask the government to do something beyond its capacity is indeed asking too much, but to ask something that it can, and should, do isn't anything of the sort. |
| Date | 15:45:40, December 12, 2005 CET | From | Veni Vidi Vici | To | Debating the Improving Culture Bill |
| Message | we agree with article 3 and to a degree article 2 but we do not agree with the first article and for that reason no |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 501 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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