01-25-2006, 04:24 AM
I drafted this in the UN forum a while back, but it got bogged down, so I reposted there. I thought someone here might want to take a crack at it:
Quote: RECOGNIZING that the main investment in the creation of intellectual work is not the support needed to display it, but the time or materials spent in conceiving and creating the work;
NOTING that many nations have some sort of copyright law already in place;
SADDENED that these laws can be mutually incompatible, and can fail to protect copyright owners, especially if nations without copyright laws do not respect and enforce the copyright laws of other nations:
1. DEFINES, for the purpose of this resolution,
a) "intellectual work" as a work in which the physical materials used to represent it make up a minimal part of its value, and in which most of the value is intellectual;
b ) "copyright law" as a law that restricts the distribution of intellectual work;
c) "nation of production" as the nation in which an intellectual work, exactly as it appears in its completion, was first put into tangible form;
d) "tangible form" as a support in which the intellectual work appears in its complete form, with all creative value visible;
2. PRESERVES any and all copyrights applicable in the nation of production of any work in all UN nations, regardless of where it has been distributed;
3. PRESERVES any and all applicable rights given to the copyright holder by national copyright law throughout UN nations;
4. EMPOWERS copyright holders to restrict the nations in which their international work is distributed, especially for the purpose of protecting work from citizens in non-UN nations who are not required to abide by this resolution.[/quote]
Quote: RECOGNIZING that the main investment in the creation of intellectual work is not the support needed to display it, but the time or materials spent in conceiving and creating the work;
NOTING that many nations have some sort of copyright law already in place;
SADDENED that these laws can be mutually incompatible, and can fail to protect copyright owners, especially if nations without copyright laws do not respect and enforce the copyright laws of other nations:
1. DEFINES, for the purpose of this resolution,
a) "intellectual work" as a work in which the physical materials used to represent it make up a minimal part of its value, and in which most of the value is intellectual;
b ) "copyright law" as a law that restricts the distribution of intellectual work;
c) "nation of production" as the nation in which an intellectual work, exactly as it appears in its completion, was first put into tangible form;
d) "tangible form" as a support in which the intellectual work appears in its complete form, with all creative value visible;
2. PRESERVES any and all copyrights applicable in the nation of production of any work in all UN nations, regardless of where it has been distributed;
3. PRESERVES any and all applicable rights given to the copyright holder by national copyright law throughout UN nations;
4. EMPOWERS copyright holders to restrict the nations in which their international work is distributed, especially for the purpose of protecting work from citizens in non-UN nations who are not required to abide by this resolution.[/quote]