[Eisophca]

I'm trying to keep the registration and such out of the UN to hold off the NatSovists: if a nation mandates that registration is required, then so be it. If the rule that copyrights are not allowed at all, then so be it. Part of the purpose of the resolution is to get nations to improve their copyright laws so as to attract artists and such.
Groot Gouda that a copyrighted work in one UN nation is automatically copyrighted in all other nations.[/quote]
That's clauses #2 & #3

So, I have a new draft. I think I'll keep patents in here, but remove trademarks...?

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:

-*- SECTION ONE: COPYRIGHTS -*-

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.

5. CREATES the United Nations Copyright and Patent Registry (UNCPR), which will be entrusted with the sole duty of maintaining a database of all copyrights and patents possessed by all nations in the United Nations for the purpose of facilitating international copyright and patent law;

-*- SECTION II: PATENTS -*-

5. DEFINES, for the purpose of this resolution, "patent" as a protection by national law of an idea for a product or invention for a limited amount of time, after which the idea becomes free for all to use;

6. CAPS the length of patents at seventy-five years past the initiation of a patent, and

7. URGES nations to set the maximum length at less than twenty-five years;

8. MANDATES that patents only be issued when there is no evidence of the invention being used before or at the time of the patent;

9. MANDATES that no idea patented in the UNPR be used in any product or device without consent of the patent holder, but

10. EMPHASIZES that ideas may still be restricted in member nations at the will of the national government, unless this is barred by past or future UN legislation;

11. DECLARES that if two patents are found, at the time of the setup of the UNPR, that cover sufficiently similar material to be called the same patent, the one that was first registered in a national office will be declared the one valid in all UN nations, unless the records are found to not be accurate, in which case the patents will all become null and void;
[/quote]