Effective copyright is a boon for the American economy, what we have now is not effective copyright and it will only be made worse by the TPP. Instead of trying to crackdown on movie pirates maybe focus should be shifted to the 100s of billions of dollars lost due to stolen intellectual property by Chinese companies mainly corporate espionage or corruption.
Oh yes. You just argued that we ought to adopt a protectionist policy whose intent is to protect and keep high American wages. So your position on immigration is rather pertinent.
Because my bet is that I can go find where you are in favor of immigration policy that has precisely the result you would decry from the TPP, that of driving down blue-collar wages.
This isn't conspiracy.
You thinking it is, is nonsense.
This has far greater reach than simply free trade.
You mean how something like NAFTA lead to a direct increase in illegal immigration?
China is not party to the deal and thus can't be prosecuted under it - instead you have to go to the WTO. The portions of Asia that are party to it, however, will become limited and less able to commit intellectual theft against the US. The patent protections in the TPP are there because we insisted upon them, because they are good for US businesses, besides being a good Rule of Law issue in and of themselves.
They are good for American businesses, but bad for bad for the American people and innovation.
Sure. No doubt all those businesses are staffed by robots, and the only people inventing anything today are foreigners here on student visas :roll:
Having restrictive copyrights that last forever and vague patents only serve to stifle innovation and competition in the industry. Restrictive copyrights and patents only help established large businesses in the industry to keep their grip and prevent anyone else from innovating and entering it the way most of them did. In the long run it harms everyone but the corporations profiting from it as people are not allowed to innovate and make money.
In the long run it harms everyone but the corporations profiting from it as people are not allowed to innovate and make money.
They are good for American businesses, but bad for the American people and innovation.
Just as the title says. I for one am for it because of what it could potentially mean for import of American autos to countries such as South Korea and Japan.
Oh G_d, no.No, no no, it's just a secretive grand design to undermine US sovereignty and put all of your blogs at risk of being censored by foreign powers :roll:
The arguments you put forth were nonsense. If you are committing intellectual theft, then you should get caught.
That is 100% correct. The TPP is also fantastic foreign policy and geopolitics (not the same thing). By creating a free-trade atmosphere with much of Asia, the US can mitigate and roll back much of the economic exclusivity that China has been trying to enforce in the same region. We not only benefit from increased trade, but we help to protect smaller democracies from encroachment by an aggressive autocratic nature and we reduce the future chances that a forced alliance restricts our abilities to access key markets and shipping lanes. There is a good reason why administrations that feature everyone from Dick Cheney to Samantha Powers favored and pushed the TPP, and it's because it is excellent policy.
Oh G_d, no.
You are to far gone.
There is no conspiracy.
The arguments are relevant.
And clearly you have bought into it being a great idea when it isn't.
How is protecting intellectual property bad for innovation?
No it isn't.:shrug: If you are going to descend into a Just So Fallacy, okay. There isn't much for it at that point.
This agreement is good for us economically, it is good for us geopolitically, and it is a rare foreign policy initiative that this administration has managed not to completely **** up. I've been following the TPP for about 5 years now. But thanks for telling me all about it.
That's an interesting claim. Who has restrictive copyrights that last forever?
This, however, is particularly laughable. Without solid patent protection, the individual who innovates has no ability whatsoever to make money and is completely unprotected from a corporation taking his design and using their greater resources to more quickly and cheaply produce it.
Improper and overly restrictive protection of intellectual property is bad for innovation.
Sure. No doubt all those businesses are staffed by robots, and the only inventors today are foreigners here on student visas :roll:
Protection of intellectual property is excellent for innovation because it incentivizes it.
This agreement is good for us economically, it is good for us geopolitically, and it is a rare foreign policy initiative that this administration has managed not to completely **** up. I've been following the TPP for about 5 years now. But thanks for telling me all about it.
No it isn't.
But you can't see that becasue you have already bought into it.
Hook, line, and sinker.
Way to misstate what was said. :dohAccusations that anyone who disagrees with you has been suckered. Indication of a conspiracy theory at work #937.
true, why would a pharmaceutical enterprise spend millions developing a new drug for say cancer or ALS, spend even more on clinical tests to get FDA approval only to see some maker of generics immediately copy the drug once it was approved.
Well they should have that exclusivity for a while but at some point that drug needs to be made available to other companies to allow them to innovate and make other advances.
Copyrights last too long, when they were created they only lasted 28 years which is enough time for someone to make money from their creation but also open it up to innovation as soon as possible so people can take it and build upon on it.
and that is what the law is.
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