GA Resolution: Convention on Copyright Protection

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION AT VOTE
Convention on Copyright Protection
A resolution to promote funding and the development of education and the arts.

Category: Education and Creativity| Category: Artistic | Proposed by:Naifon

DEFINING 'copyright protection' as a reservation granted to the originator of a creative work to reproduce, redistribute, or otherwise exploit said work, as well as to legally prosecute one who violates the terms of the copyright protection,

FURTHER DEFINING 'royalty fees' as liquid funds paid to a holder of copyright protection by one who has reproduced, redistributed, or otherwise exploited a creative work without the permission of said copyright protection-holder,

NOTING that 'creative works' shall include, but not be limited to original books, poems, short stories, slogans, logos, works of visual art, films, sounds, and photographs,

DEFINING 'the public domain' as all creative works that are not under copyright protection at a given time,

UNDERSTANDING that the originator of a creative work has an intrinsic right to yield proceeds from said work, as well as the right to prevent other artists from using their original properties,

ASSERTING, however, that the public is ultimately entitled to exploit a creative work without reimbursing the originator of said work,

DECLARING that a limitation on the time that a creative work can remain under copyright protection serves to furthers creativity by allowing individuals to publish or otherwise propagate parodies, spoofs, fan-fictions, or similar products based on well-known works without the threat of accruing royalty fees,

FURTHER DECLARING that creative works under copyright protection are often more difficult to access than their counterparts in the public domain, thus inhibiting the public's ability to enjoy said works,

PROCLAIMING that the originator of a creative work cannot collect profit on their work after they have died,

MAINTAINING that copyright protection was never intended to be a means by which a work's originator could reserve the right to exclusively exploit their own work, as well as indict those who use their work without their permission for an excessive duration of time,

STRESSING that a holder of copyright protection has no right to demand an excessive sum of money by a violator of the terms of said protection,

STATING, however, that this eventuality has transpired in many jurisdictions,

The World Assembly,

1. REQUIRES that copyrighted works must enter the public domain in all World Assembly member nations within 50 years of the date on which said works are first published, or upon the death of the originator of the creative work, whichever comes first, and

2. CLARIFIES that said originator may admonish said work's copyright protection at any time before they are legally obligated to do so, and

3. FURTHER CLARIFIES that copyright protection for a creative work may only be held by the originator of said work, and may not be traded or purchased by any individual, and

4. INSTRUCTS that unreasonably high royalty fees may not be requested by a holder of copyright protection, and

5. MAKES CLEAR that the right to determine 'unreasonably high' royalty fees shall be consigned to the courts of the World Assembly member nation in which the dispute arises, and

6. ELUCIDATES that no part of this legislation inhibits World Assembly member nations' right to regulate what works are eligible for copyright protection, nor does it ban said nations from postponing a work's copyright protection at any time, though the latter can be appealed.