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Bill: Innovation Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Grand National 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: March 3463
Description[?]:
| Mr Speaker, government currently imposes regulations that diminish any incentive for innovation and research significantly. 1.) Copyright is a legitimate protection of individual achievements, but we should not bar other researchers from improving and utilizing technologies, which severely dampens innovation and progress. 2.) Price controls and subsidies at the same time lead to less competition, less supply and the emerging of an unhealthy connection of government and the pharma industry. We should abolish both and let the free market go ahead with its innovative ventures without restricting them with the current scheme. 3.) Source codes of privately developed software are none of the business of government bureaucrats. Let's leave this issue to developers themselves. Frank Calhoun MP Member for Elbian GNP Science and Technology Spokesman |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Protection of original works of technology and arts.
Old value:: Works of technology and art are protected by copyright.
Current: Technology and art are part of the commons and are not protected by copyright.
Proposed: Works of techology and art have limited copy protection.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The research and development of pharmaceutical drugs.
Old value:: The government subsidizes research and development of prescription drugs and regulates their prices.
Current: The government subsidizes research and development of prescription drugs and regulates their prices.
Proposed: The government neither subsidizes research and development of drugs nor regulates their prices.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The government's stance on the source code of software.
Old value:: The government requires that all source be opened.
Current: The government has no stance on the source code of software.
Proposed: The government has no stance on the source code of software.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 16:40:54, March 30, 2013 CET | From | Dranish Agrarian League | To | Debating the Innovation Act |
| Message | Mr Speaker We from the real Terra not Planet Anarchy prefer to see Government control prices of pharmaceutical drugs and ush the development of new drugs since this is a life and death matter. Weakening property rights in completely unacceptable. Jose Manana DAL Chairman |
| Date | 18:27:47, March 30, 2013 CET | From | Dranish Conservative Party | To | Debating the Innovation Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, society has a responsibility to do everything it can to push back the boundaries of medical knowledge. Subsidies are well worth it if they help to prove new, cheaper and more effective cures. Rafael Duvalle MP Chairman of the Dranish Conservative Party |
| Date | 00:45:36, March 31, 2013 CET | From | Dranish Hosian Democrats | To | Debating the Innovation Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, we too shares the concerns of the GNP that subsidies to the great pharmaceutical companies are a means of corruption and corporate capitalism. The rest is an experiment, that we are willing to participate in. Josephine Sorensen, MP Spokesperson for Science and Technology |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 221 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 107 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 41 |
| Random fact: Did you know you can change the official name of your nation? All you need to do is draw up a new name that is in accordance with the Nation Renaming Guide, pass a bill proposing the name change with a two-thirds majority and then post a request to Moderation on the "Renaming Requests" thread. You can change city and region names in this way too. |
| Random quote: "The worst thing the bad guys can do is force us to doubt the good ones." - Viria Agelasta, former Selucian politician |