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Bill: An Actual Return to Normalcy
Details
Submitted by[?]: Leviathan 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: April 2074
Description[?]:
| As this is how it has been for as long as anyone can remember, we rightly call the banning of exclusive copyrights and software patents the norm in Malivia. |
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: Works of technology and art are protected by copyright.
Proposed: Technology and art are part of the commons and are not 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 | 10:29:40, June 29, 2005 CET | From |  Free Reform Coalition (FRP) | To | Debating the An Actual Return to Normalcy |
| Message | nope |
| Date | 13:59:40, June 29, 2005 CET | From | Radical Centrists | To | Debating the An Actual Return to Normalcy |
| Message | Agree with article 2, internal party debate ongoing wrt article 1. |
| Date | 01:15:53, June 30, 2005 CET | From | Radical Centrists | To | Debating the An Actual Return to Normalcy |
| Message | This statement may come as a surprise to some members of the house, but it is the product of a great deal of soul-searching and debate. We believe it is fair to say that the creative commons initiatives, while highly contentious, has brought Malivia international attention, often acclaim. We are the nation that produced our world's first truly international treaty and in an unexpected field, it must be said. We risk losing our international status and, indeed, destabilising the treaty if we maintain the status quo. With this in mind, our historic scepticism is partly assuaged. However, there is more to consider. Following years of division and feuding, our nation has a closely-knit coalition of parties that have effectively dissolved themselves for a greater whole. We applaud those who strive for unity and ppreciate how difficult a goal it is; witness our unsuccessful attempts in the past. However, we have no desire to join such a coalition as we feel its magnitude threatens to destabilise our fragile democracy. In addition, what sacrifices are parties making, parties elected by the people on very different platforms to those being adopted now? This brings us to our final point. The FRP is, we feel, thoroughly mired in a crisis of corruption. Its leading figure of recent times has been found flagrantly flouting our nation's laws and regardless of the wisdom of these laws, such a transgression is unforgiveable. And how convenient! Romano Enterprises and FRP stand to gain from the consignment of the creative commons to Malivia's legislative dustbin. Are we so quick to aid them in their duplicity. We support LevP's bill in support of democracy and national pride and in opposition to corruption! *uproar* |
| Date | 01:26:30, June 30, 2005 CET | From | Leviathan Party | To | Debating the An Actual Return to Normalcy |
| Message | Uproar indeed. |
| Date | 08:40:13, June 30, 2005 CET | From | Social Libertarian party | To | Debating the An Actual Return to Normalcy |
| Message | Whoa, does that guy have four accounts? |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 52 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 48 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Particracy does not allow official national flags of real-life nations or flags which are very prominent and recognisable (eg. the flags of the European Union, the United Nations, Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union or the Confederate States of America). |
| Random quote: "Were it not for electricity, we would have to watch television in the dark." - Muammar Gaddafi- |