Re: Re: concern at copyright ruling

Chris,

Good point, well made. But your colloquial interpretation would mean 
that an external body controls international obligations under different 
international agreements. This sounds difficult. I'm not going to be 
able to spend the time or thought to try to understand the detail. The 
WTO may well be able to determine issues purely under WTO rules, but 
Antigua is still obligated under Berne and other agreements. This means 
- I suspect - that Antigua is still obligated to observe copyright and 
patents under other agreements it is party to, and that the real effect 
is the wet cardboard slap.

But such an action would raise other issues, such as who has policy 
control of a democratic nation - the duly elected legislators, or an 
unelected international trade body. Banning or not banning media and 
print content is a social issue. I'd really want to study this. Maybe in 
a couple of years :-) .

Unless, of course, this is the route for world dictatorship :-( .

Joseph Harris

On 21/03/2013 20:38, Chris Smith wrote:
>
> josephHarris wrote:
>
> > Of course the dissent view, that the ruling was contrary to US trade
> negotiations, may well mean a quick statute will be brought in to
> strengthen the geographical issue. The whole IP rights field must have
> geographical control as part of its exclusivity for many reasons, and I
> cannot see a groundswell of lobbying being long delayed.
>
> The U.S. should be careful. They already lost one WTO case where they
> blocked overseas online gambling and they were successfully sued by
> Antigua. As a result, Antigua currently has been authorized by the the WTO
> to suspend "concessions and obligations to the United States in respect of
> intellectual property rights".
>
> More colloquially? Antigua can sell stuff without having to honour U.S.
> copyrights or patents. Good thing Antigua isn't very big!
>
> There has been enough of a shift in U.S. balance of trade over the last 30
> years that the U.S. now risks damaging its own economy whenever it blocks
> external goods and services. Trying to rejigger international trade to
> block resale of already-sold books strikes me as a disproportionate
> response.
>
> : chris smith ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
> : nihil tam munitum quod non expugnari pecunia possit - cicero :
>



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