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here is our updated draft, we will submit next week (the day is not fixed yet), and we will always appreciate critics or improvments suggestions


Media and DRM Act

The United Nations,

-A- NOTING that the entertainment industry is a growing sector and is essential to the economic development of our Nations and the happiness of our people

-B- DEFINES a ?regional system? as any method to prohibit the transmitting or viewing of media from one region or nation in another region or nation,

-C- CONVINCED that the Universal standards are likely to increase the confidence of customers in the standards and then the likelihood of their success

-D- REGRETTING the compatibility issues caused by multiple media formats around the world, and the further lack of coordination between media companies

-E- REGRETTING the problems consumers face when using incompatible media formats, and when attempting to transport media from other cultures,

-F- REGRETTING that the current restrictions on media use increase privacy and hurt content and distribution industries,


-1- URGES all Nations to encourage the growth of the entertainment industry"

-2- BANS any "regional system" for commercial DRM?s (Digital Rights Management) and media formats, such as Blu-ray disc, High Density Digital Versatile Disc (HD DVD), Universal Media Disc (UMD), Super Audio CD (SACD), DualDisc, Enhanced Versatile Disc (EVD) and any previous or future storage medium,

-3- URGES STRONGLY all nations to regulate DRMs and Media duplication protections, in order to assure compatibility for customers with most media players,

-4- MANDATES developed nations where companies propose a commercial media support or DRM system standard to regulate the cost of its patent licensing in order to be financially reasonable and available to developing nations