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Bill: Encourage inventiveness and invention disclosure in our society
Details
Submitted by[?]: Parti Minarchiste
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: October 3648
Description[?]:
| It is crucial that we a) Encourage indiviudals or firms to create inventions b) Encourage these actors to disclose their invention to society such that society may benefit from the invention Without a limited period monopoly there is no reason to disclose an invention and as such no reason to engage in research and development. This puts us behind our competitors. |
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 technology and art are protected by copyright.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The patenting of software techniques.
Old value:: Software patents can be obtained from the patent office.
Current: Software patents can be obtained from the patent office.
Proposed: Software designs, techniques, formulae and algorithms cannot be patented.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 13:03:06, April 08, 2014 CET | From |  Libyeral Nam Ekologiin (Liberal Ecology | To | Debating the Encourage inventiveness and invention disclosure in our society |
| Message | I may be completely missing the point, but your two articles seem to be moving in completely opposite directions... |
| Date | 19:23:47, April 08, 2014 CET | From | Parti Minarchiste | To | Debating the Encourage inventiveness and invention disclosure in our society |
| Message | There is a good reason for that. Patenting should be for an invention. A software design can merely be a way of displaying a previously known invention. A mathematical formulae or scientific theory is not an invention - it is merely a discovery. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 239 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 412 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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