Re:EU Cancels 'Final' Negotiations on EU Copyright Directive
by bryanlarsen on Saturday January 19, 2019 @01:36PM
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2019 was the first year we've had copyrights expire in a very long time. Everybody assumed that Disney et al would push through another extension, but they didn't even try because they knew the opposition would be too loud.
Re:EU Cancels 'Final' Negotiations on EU Copyright Directive
by toufiqbarhamov on Saturday January 19, 2019 @12:22PM
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Sure it's the USA, but the problem is not unique to the USA.
I’m listening, but it would help if you could make a list that isn’t exclusively American. It really does imply that yeah, it’s very much a problem with the form of crony capitalism found in the US.
Re:EU Cancels 'Final' Negotiations on EU Copyright Directive
by latexr on Saturday January 19, 2019 @01:45PM
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> I’m listening, but it would help if you could make a list that isn’t exclusively American.
Not the parent commenter, but here you go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18948465
Re:EU Cancels 'Final' Negotiations on EU Copyright Directive
by toufiqbarhamov on Saturday January 19, 2019 @02:33PM
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That’s certainly a start, but the obvious counterpoint is GDPR, which was EU-wide rather than the activity of one minor constituent nation. All told it does feel like the U.S. goes well beyond most other Western nations in terms of locally and globally imposing their IP framework through laws and treties.
COICA -> PIPA -> SOPA -> CISPA -> CISA tells another tale.
Sure it's the USA, but the problem is not unique to the USA. It's a part of all major political systems today. If a government is determined to get a law passed, often at the behest of special interests, they'll just keep reintroducing it and slightly changing it until they win a war of attrition. Like somebody else mentioned they have to win once, you have to win every single time.
Perhaps a balancing of powers would be public referendums enabling laws to rolled back. x signatures triggers a referendum and if a supermajority (70% perhaps?) votes in favor of a rollback, a law is undone with an e.g. decade long prohibition on the reintroduction of any materially similar law. Would be quite a remarkably democratic system that could enable the citizens of a nation to remove unjust, inappropriate, or simply obsolete laws. And just to ensure that citizens and their representatives are on equal footing, so long as the signatures are repeatedly reached - these referendums could be called each and every year.