This poll will be up until Thursday, December 1st. At that time I will cast my votes on the repeal, based on the outcome of this poll.
Remember, voting is only open to residents of the region of Canada, and you may still only vote once no matter how many nations you have in the region, or how many off-site forum accounts you have.
Description: UN Resolution #45: UCPL (Category: Free Trade; Strength: Significant) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.
Argument: RECOGNISING that copyright and patent law are fundamentally different methods of protecting intellectual property;
NOTING WITH REGRET that this resolution makes no distinction between the two;
REALISING that there are profound differences in the way nations view the value and ownership of intellectual property;
BELIEVING that copyright law and patent law are such inherently complex concepts that no single resolution can formally and effectively create a universal system of UN law in this regard;
DEEPLY CONSCIOUS that the mechanism for sharing copyright described in UCPL would be impossible;
ALARMED at the cost of constructing and maintaining over 30,000 separate chapter offices in member capitals, and further sub-agencies;
REAFFIRMING the importance of global cooperation in copyright issues;
EXPRESSING ITS HOPE that nations will continue to work together in this respect;
BELIEVING that a more effective replacement for "UCPL" can be achieved:
REPEALS "UCPL". I believe that based on the regions overwhelming opposition to the original resolution, it would be rather silly to vote against its repeal.
Also: there is overwhelming support of the repeal now. Coincidence???
Lol. I think Canada is pretty well decided.
The repeal of "UCPL" was passed 9,077 votes to 2,832.
I cast my votes FOR this repeal, based on this poll.
Thank you for voting.
