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Do We Need A World Court For Intellectual Property?
from the well,-we-may-have-one-anyway dept
A bunch of folks have sent in various versions of the story that the G20 has agreed to some sort of "world court for intellectual property." Of course, the details still aren't entirely clear (and it sounds like there's still a bunch of horse trading going on), but it would be an extension of WIPO, which has been in charge of enforcing various international treaties. The details are key, but it still does make you wonder why we need a world IP court. Such courts in the past have been shown to not be very effective in dealing with IP issues, because they tend to become dominated by those who believe that "more IP is better" despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary. So these courts tend to just be the enforcers of industries built on the regulatory monopolies commonly called intellectual property. Well no wonder so many people were sending it in: it was an April Fool's joke. Well done... though, in retrospect the bit about France demanding that the language of the court be French if it were in China should have been a dead give away.
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This is a great idea
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Why again is IP some mystical thing that levitates above government?
Makes perfect sense. But there's that pesky Sixth Amendment that needs to be dealt with. How do you think they will circumvent it?
"...of the State and district where in the crime shall have been committed..."
Stay tuned for more developments!
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Re: Why again is IP some mystical thing that levitates above government?
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ACTA
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It was a joke
regards,
mc
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Re: Why again is IP some mystical thing that levitates above government?
Violations of intellectual property for the most part are civil wrongs, not crimes.
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Re: It was a joke
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Re: It was a joke
Damnit. Mike did it already.
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World Court on IP Joke
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April Fool's joke
This is one of the reasons I read your blog; you are honest and straightforward!
Keep it up!
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A perfectly understandable mistake
Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of pro-Intellectual Property arguments that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing.
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Busted!
Would that all of the crazy ideas that IP feeders propose were April fool's jokes. Sadly, most are true.
It's easy to spot a fake tree. It's harder to spot a fake tree planted in a forest.
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