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Licenses are just paper. Country A has very little recourse if Country B decides not to honor the intellectual property laws of Country A. The most that can be
by 10000truths 5y ago
Licenses are just paper. Country A has very little recourse if Country B decides not to honor the intellectual property laws of Country A. The most that can be done is an embargo/sanction, which may or may not be a worthwhile tradeoff for country B, depending on the IP in question.
- londons_explore 5y agoUSA IP laws are stuck to in most of the developed world. There are a lot of trade deals that have the enforcement of IP laws globally as a condition.
- freejazz 5y agoIf I am in the US and someone in a foreign country infringes my IP I almost definitely cannot sue them for copyright infringement in the US.
- londons_explore 5y agoYou can usually sue them in their country though, which normally will enforce US copyright. You can also prevent them bringing any of their product into the USA through US courts.
- cwkoss 5y agoThis only applies to IP owned by megacorps with armies of lobbyists.
- Mindwipe 5y ago> Country A has very little recourse if Country B decides not to honor the intellectual property laws of Country A. The most that can be done is an embargo/sanction, which may or may not be a worthwhile tradeoff for country B, depending on the IP in question. Embargo/sanctions are... quite a big deal? They will absolutely never be a worthwhile tradeoff for country B.
- 10000truths 5y agoNot always true. For country B = China, which has has plenty of trading power of its own, embargoes/sanctions can hurt the US, so that stick must be used sparingly. For country B = Cuba/Iran/North Korea/Venezuela, they are already under heavy embargoes/sanctions by the US, so why should they care about US intellectual property laws?