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Re:EU copyright law proposal rejected by shawn on Thursday July 05, 2018 @10:36AM (#17463555)
It seems time for a double-jeopardy type law for laws. If a law tries and fails to pass, there should be a cooldown period. Possibly a decade.
Re:EU copyright law proposal rejected by cyphar on Thursday July 05, 2018 @11:45AM (#17464167)
Aside from the obvious loopholes (how do you define two laws as being the same -- and what stops your opponent from intentionally sabotaging a law they know you'd want to pass?) there are some other practical issues.

If it applied to all laws, you could pretty easily imagine some negative consequences (attempts for marriage equality or suffrage could have been delayed by decades if the opposition tried to introduce laws in a way that would be guaranteed to not pass). And what if the circumstances change within that decade so that an old law proposal now makes much more sense.

I do think that the law-making process should have quite a few more safeguards. The way that after-the-fact amendments work (in America or Australia for instance) is quite scary -- though Australia does have double dissolution which intends to prevent deadlocks and the Senate changing laws without authority from the House of Representatives.

Re:EU copyright law proposal rejected by gmueckl on Thursday July 05, 2018 @11:35AM (#17464074)
This would mean you get into endless discussion about whether a new proposal is covering the same topic or not. Politicians try to game every system if it helps their cause. And then there are the corner cases where the underlying situation changes enough to warrant action even though it fell through one or two years prior.
Re:EU copyright law proposal rejected by Avamander on Thursday July 05, 2018 @12:32PM (#17464607)
We are seeing how legislation lags behind AI (self-driving, facial recognition etc.), we seriously don't want to make that even worse.
Re:EU copyright law proposal rejected by kpil on Thursday July 05, 2018 @03:37PM (#17466146)
The problem is more that the lawmakers need something to do... EU is producing a torrent of regulations, which is a bit absurd since it's layered on top of a substantial amount of already existing legislation in the member states.

It's not so much about "harmonizing the markets" - it's just full speed ahead, high and low, idealistic, corporatistic, amateurish or razor sharp, but all the time relentless building the superstate.