Treaties and Domestic Law

[Seth Johnson <seth.johnson@RealMeasures.dyndns.org>]

(Forwarded from Free Software Law Discussion list,
fsl-discuss@alt.org)

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Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 18:59:31 +0000
From: "M. Drew Streib" <dtype@dtype.org>

On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 10:08:27AM -0800, Gabe Wachob wrote:
> 
> You are not mischaracterizing this at all. In '96-97 while
> I was in law school, Pam Samuelson raised all sorts of red
> flags about WIPO and the way in which it was going to be
> used to push an IP regime into the United States that
> copyright holders would have a harder time pushing
> directly.  And thats exactly where we are today.

Is this something that concerns the lawmakers themselves?
I'd think that elected representatives wouldn't want to be
forced into decisions that upset their constituency
(assuming it actually does so).

Have there been any position papers or statements regarding
this from any members of Congress? I'm not sure where to
even begin looking for this...

From a productivity standpoint, it would seem to make sense
to lobby your own representative.

-drew

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