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Bill: Freedom (iii)
Details
Submitted by[?]: Likaton Fascist Front
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 2191
Description[?]:
| The AM PSS asks the convocation to consider the following proposal. We beleive that good ideas should be freely shared and not tied up in leglities. The entire population should be allowed to exploit better ways of doing any process, rather than having them tied up in the hands of corporations. |
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: Technology and art are part of the commons and are not protected by copyright.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 15:07:58, February 23, 2006 CET | From | Progressive Party | To | Debating the Freedom (iii) |
| Message | We can see the good intentions behind this proposal, but we believe that this would create a situation where there would be very little incentive to innovate in technology or art if the inventor or artist isn't adequately rewarded for his creation. |
| Date | 17:07:03, February 23, 2006 CET | From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the Freedom (iii) |
| Message | AM AAP supports. |
| Date | 18:13:22, February 23, 2006 CET | From | AM Radical Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Freedom (iii) |
| Message | AM RLP must oppose this attempt to socialize the fields of innovation by confiscation of the fruits of the eforts of the innovator. |
| Date | 20:26:21, February 23, 2006 CET | From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the Freedom (iii) |
| Message | Curious... I thought the libertarian perspective SUPPORTED abolition of copyrights? |
| Date | 21:46:00, February 23, 2006 CET | From | AM Radical Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Freedom (iii) |
| Message | No, we are firmly in favor of personal property rights, including the property of the mind. |
| Date | 22:26:07, February 23, 2006 CET | From | Likaton Fascist Front | To | Debating the Freedom (iii) |
| Message | The stances adopted by the RLP and AAP are the exact opposite of what we had thought would happen. |
| Date | 22:49:13, February 23, 2006 CET | From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the Freedom (iii) |
| Message | But... isn't it a regulation of the market, to allow am external force to control what the producer can produce? (To AM PSS... I was a little surprised, myself:-)...) |
| Date | 14:54:17, February 24, 2006 CET | From | AM Radical Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Freedom (iii) |
| Message | It is no more regulation of the market than it is regulation if I cannot steal your car and sell it freely. The fruits of my hands are mine to distribute as I see fit; so also are the fruits of my mind. It is theft, pure and simple, if anyone can come into my orchard and take my apples. It is no less theft if they can take the art which I labor over and freely distribute it. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 200 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 301 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Particracy does not allow real-life fictional references (eg. Gandalf, Harry Potter, Luke Skywalker). |
| Random quote: "Radical left-wing ideologies must be stamped out." - Franklin McCarthy, former Solentian politician |