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Copyfail: Why WIPO Can't Fix Copyright
- coldpie 11y agoIt's refreshing seeing some higher-level discussion about this issue. I feel like a lot of the discussion about copyright is among small-time bit players, on message boards and in "open letter" formats from mostly small and occasionally large artists. Meanwhile the fat cats who actually make the policy (Disney & co.) just dictate and enforce their laws totally without regard to the real world the rest of us live in. And then the article dashes all my good feelings in the last two paragraphs. What a world...
- kbutler 11y agotl;dr there are some good ideas, but existing treaties like the TPP prevent implementation
- walterbell 11y agoThe TPP is not yet approved by the US Congress or the governments whose trade ministers negotiated the agreement.
- AnthonyMouse 11y ago> The TPP is not yet approved by the US Congress or the governments whose trade ministers negotiated the agreement. In addition to that, the proposal is apparently for a new WIPO trade agreement. I'm not aware of any reason why a new agreement can't specify a reversal of stupidity in a different agreement, if all the same countries agree to it. Though obviously it would be better and less difficult to not bring about the stupidity to begin with.
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