NationStates Jolt Archive

Hello,

Recently, the "DRM and Media Act" was submitted in the Free Trade category. As the resolution talks mainly about restrictions, I'd like to hear the moderator's opinion on whether this resolution is submitted in the right category (and whether it's really significant). I did mention this to the author in the draft stage but got no response.

DRM and Media Act

A resolution to reduce barriers to free trade and commerce.
Category: Free Trade
Strength: Significant

Proposed by: Richard2008

Description: The United Nations,

-A- NOTING that the entertainment industry is a growing sector and is essential to the economic development of our Nations and the happiness of our people

-B- DEFINES a “regional system” as any method to prohibit the transmitting or viewing of media from one region or nation in another region or nation,

-C- NOTING that some regional systems are desgined to prevent access to graphic or restricted types of media content in individual nations,

-D- CONVINCED that the universal standards are likely to increase comsumer confidence, further adding to the practical and economic viability and success of these standards,

-E- REGRETTING the compatibility issues caused by multiple media formats around the world, and the further lack of coordination between media companies

-F- REGRETTING the problems consumers face when using incompatible media formats, and when attempting to transport media from other cultures, which is a barrier to cultural awareness,

-G- REGRETTING that the current restrictions on media use increase piracy and hurt content and distribution industries,


-1- URGES all Nations to encourage the growth of the entertainment industry"

-2- URGES STRONGLY all nations to regulate DRM (Digital Rights Management) systems and Media duplication protections, in order to assure compatibility for customers with most media players,

-3- BANS any "regional system" for commercial DRM’s and media formats, such as
-Blu-ray disc
-High Density Digital Versatile Disc (HD DVD)
-Universal Media Disc (UMD)
-Super Audio CD (SACD)
-DualDisc
-Enhanced Versatile Disc (EVD)
-Holographic Versatile Disc (HDV)

and any other previous or future storage medium. The media content and distribution industries should work to integrate current and past standards, and make a reasonable effort to ensure that the new universal standard is backwards compatible with these previous standards.

-4- DISCOURAGES any media sharing, distribution, or reproduction methods which are illegal or restricted by law in each individual UN nation,

-5- MANDATES developed nations where companies propose a commercial media support or DRM system standard to regulate the cost of its patent licensing in order to be financially reasonable and available to developing and less economically stable nations.

Co-authored by Love and estere

Voting Ends: Sat Sep 24 2005

Right category. The Proposal seeks to remove trade barriers and restrictions (ie those caused by regional restrictions). The only issue I can see is whether this is redundent.

Rotovia
Not-a-Mod

Right category. The Proposal seeks to remove trade barriers and restrictions (ie those caused by regional restrictions).

By banning such a system, it imposes a restriction on trade. It also "URGES STRONGLY all nations to regulate DRM", and "MANDATES developed nations where companies propose a commercial media support or DRM system standard to regulate the cost of its patent". That's all regulation and restriction in my view.

By banning such a system, it imposes a restriction on trade. It also "URGES STRONGLY all nations to regulate DRM", and "MANDATES developed nations where companies propose a commercial media support or DRM system standard to regulate the cost of its patent". That's all regulation and restriction in my view.

We think that our proposition free "cultural goods" trade from barriers, restrictions and anti competition practices.

You can think all you want, but that's not what the proposal actually does.

You are saying to companies "you're not allowed to do this, and we're going to put rules on that". How on earth can you think that that's "free" ? Free would be: "With this resolution, we decide that we will not regulate the entertainment industry, and we will not ban or regulate DRM systems, nor make them compulsory".

bump

here is the new draft:
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"Worldwide Entertainment Act"

The United Nations,

-A- NOTING that the entertainment industry is a growing sector and is essential to the economic development of our Nations and the happiness of our people,

-B- RECOGNIZING that the entertainment industry includes a wide assortment of businesses and individuals that create and produce video, music, graphics, books and various other types of content,

-C- DEFINES a “regional system” as any method to prohibit the transmitting or viewing of media from one region or nation in another region or nation,

-D- NOTING that some regional systems are designed to prevent access to graphic or restricted types of media content in individual nations,

-E- CONVINCED that the universal standards are likely to increase consumer confidence, further adding to the practical and economic viability and success of these standards,

-F- REGRETTING the compatibility issues caused by multiple media formats around the world, and the further lack of coordination between media companies

-G- REGRETTING the problems consumers face when using incompatible media formats, and when attempting to transport media from other cultures, which is a barrier to cultural awareness,

-H- REGRETTING that the current restrictions on media use increase piracy and hurts the creation of artistic media creation,


-1- URGES all Nations to promote artistic use of media and encourage the growth of legal media sharing,

-2- URGES STRONGLY all nations to regulate DRM (Digital Rights Management) systems and Media duplication protections, in order to assure compatibility for customers with most media players,

-3- URGES the media content and distribution industries to work to integrate current and past standards and make a reasonable effort to ensure that the new universal standard is backwards compatible with these previous standards. These media standards include but are not limited to:
-Blu-ray disc
-High Density Digital Versatile Disc (HD DVD)
-Universal Media Disc (UMD)
-Super Audio CD (SACD)
-DualDisc
-Enhanced Versatile Disc (EVD)
-Holographic Versatile Disc (HDV)

and any other previous or future storage medium.

-4- BANS any "regional system" for commercial DRM’s and media formats for all past, current and future storage mediums.

-5-URGES all Nations to uphold legislation and measures against any media sharing, distribution, or reproduction methods which are widely considered piracy,

-6- MANDATES developed nations where companies propose a commercial media support or DRM system standard to regulate the cost of its patent licensing in order to be financially reasonable and available to developing and less economically stable nations.

Co-authored by Love and esterel
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