05-08-2006, 04:34 AM
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Quote: UN Copyright Convention
Category:Free Trade
Strength:Significant
Proposed by:Ceorana
Description: The United Nations,
NOTING that the value in intellectual property is the creative or investigative work used to create it, not the medium on which it is demonstrated or displayed,
AFFIRMING the belief that creators of intellectual property should be able to have control over the distribution and display of their work,
NOTING that many nations already have copyright laws in place,
CONSIDERING that such laws can vary immensely and do not apply to other nations,
CONCLUDING that an international convention on copyrights would guarantee copyright owners control over their work,
1. DEFINES, for the purpose of this resolution:
a. "intellectual property" as any work of mainly creative value that is of original authorship and is fixed in a tangible expressive medium;
b. "copyright law" as law which grants exclusive property rights to the creator of a a particular form of intellectual property and provides appropriate protection to those rights;
c. "fair use" as a use or reproduction of intellectual property for educational purposes, for private use, for use in critical articles or reviews, for parodies, or for any use that does not excessively infringe on the rights and profits of the copyright holder, as decided by individual nations;
2. DECLARES that the copyright law of each nation shall apply to the distribution, demostration, expression, and use of intellectual property in that nation, regardless of where the work was originally published or the citizenship of the author;
3. MANDATES that national copyright law must provide at least as much protection as the following conditions:
a. No person/corporation may print, display, demonstrate, reproduce, or store in an electronic system any intellectual property without the consent of the creator for a period extending until at least fifty years after the death of the author, or, in the case of a corporation holding the copyright, at least 95 years after the work was placed in tangible form, except under exceptions for fair use;
b. National copyright law must not discriminate between works produced domestically and works produced abroad;
c. Application of copyrights must take place automatically at the time that the work was first placed in tangible form, with no statutory formalities required for protection;
4. DECLARES that copyright holders may, if they wish, license use of intellectual property to any or all people under any terms they desire, but that all people reserve the rights to use the work under the pertinent national copyright law;
5. DECLARES that copyright owners may, if they wish, put work into the public domain, at which time it is free for anyone to use for any purpose, with or without attribution, and that all work on which the copyright has expired passes into the public domain;
6. DECLARES that copyrights may be held by any person or corporation, and may be transfered or sold, but that the original author of the work must always have rights to use his work.
Co-authored by Ausserland.[/quote]
Quote: UN Copyright Convention
Category:Free Trade
Strength:Significant
Proposed by:Ceorana
Description: The United Nations,
NOTING that the value in intellectual property is the creative or investigative work used to create it, not the medium on which it is demonstrated or displayed,
AFFIRMING the belief that creators of intellectual property should be able to have control over the distribution and display of their work,
NOTING that many nations already have copyright laws in place,
CONSIDERING that such laws can vary immensely and do not apply to other nations,
CONCLUDING that an international convention on copyrights would guarantee copyright owners control over their work,
1. DEFINES, for the purpose of this resolution:
a. "intellectual property" as any work of mainly creative value that is of original authorship and is fixed in a tangible expressive medium;
b. "copyright law" as law which grants exclusive property rights to the creator of a a particular form of intellectual property and provides appropriate protection to those rights;
c. "fair use" as a use or reproduction of intellectual property for educational purposes, for private use, for use in critical articles or reviews, for parodies, or for any use that does not excessively infringe on the rights and profits of the copyright holder, as decided by individual nations;
2. DECLARES that the copyright law of each nation shall apply to the distribution, demostration, expression, and use of intellectual property in that nation, regardless of where the work was originally published or the citizenship of the author;
3. MANDATES that national copyright law must provide at least as much protection as the following conditions:
a. No person/corporation may print, display, demonstrate, reproduce, or store in an electronic system any intellectual property without the consent of the creator for a period extending until at least fifty years after the death of the author, or, in the case of a corporation holding the copyright, at least 95 years after the work was placed in tangible form, except under exceptions for fair use;
b. National copyright law must not discriminate between works produced domestically and works produced abroad;
c. Application of copyrights must take place automatically at the time that the work was first placed in tangible form, with no statutory formalities required for protection;
4. DECLARES that copyright holders may, if they wish, license use of intellectual property to any or all people under any terms they desire, but that all people reserve the rights to use the work under the pertinent national copyright law;
5. DECLARES that copyright owners may, if they wish, put work into the public domain, at which time it is free for anyone to use for any purpose, with or without attribution, and that all work on which the copyright has expired passes into the public domain;
6. DECLARES that copyrights may be held by any person or corporation, and may be transfered or sold, but that the original author of the work must always have rights to use his work.
Co-authored by Ausserland.[/quote]
