Worldwide Media Act
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Resolution History
Overview
Failing by only 100 votes, the Worldwide Media Act was the smallest margin ever, despite that 59% of all UN Members and Delegates who voted, voted FOR; the UN vote system is dual and combine votes of regions and nations.
The Tri-Alliance composed by Richard2008, Jey and Love and esterel planned to repeal the Resolution #5 “DVD Region Removal” and to replace it by a broader resolution promoting online distribution of media, regulating DRM to increase customer rights and confidence, enlarging the regional ban to all media formats while encouraging nations to decrease piracy.
Proposal Campaign
The Tri-Alliance submitted both Repeal "DVD Region Removal" and the new proposition: DRM and Media Act" the same day while having a common campaign for both with around 1000 TG sent. The repeal reached quorum and then passed the UN vote while DRM and Media Act get only 124 approvals (4 endorsements short of quorum) and was deleted.
Then after some modifications, they resubmit it under a new name: Worldwide Media Act. It got more than 100 approvals, but was deleted by mods, wanting it to be classified under the “Social justice” category, instead of “Free Trade”. Love and esterel did not agree with this classification, but the Tri-Alliance had no other choice than to accept it and resubmitted Worldwide Media Act as 3rd time; then it reached quorum.
UN Debate
Worldwide Media Act received a strong opposition as soon as the first draft was posted in the forum.
Resolution Text
| Category: | Social Justice | Strength: | Significant | Proposed By: | Richard2008 |
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Description:
The United Nations,
-A- NOTING that the artistic, cultural and entertainment media industry is a growing sector and is essential to the economic development of our Nations and the happiness of our people,
-B- RECOGNIZING that this 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 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 hurts artistic, cultural and entertainment media creation,
-1- URGES all Nations to promote artistic, cultural and entertainment use of media and encourage its development, in particular its online distribution ,
-2- URGES STRONGLY all nations to regulate commercial DRM (Digital Rights Management) systems and duplication protections for commercial media, in order to assure compatibility for customers with most media players,
-3- BANS any "regional system" for commercial DRM’s and for all past, present and future commercial media formats. These formats include but are not limited to:
-Digital Versatile Disc (DVD)
-High Density Digital Versatile Disc (HD DVD)
-Enhanced Versatile Disc (EVD)
-Holographic Versatile Disc (HDV)
-4-URGES all Nations to uphold legislation against any media sharing, distribution, or reproduction methods which are widely considered piracy,
-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 esterel
Votes For: 7093
Votes Against: 7193
Defeated: Oct 13 2005
Gameplay Impacts
This resolution failed by only 100 votes, making this one of the closest vote margins to date. Though failed resolutions have no official gameplay impacts, the close vote and the large differences between the overall UN Vote and polls on the UN forum supported the opinion that the UN forum is not always representative of the overall UN opinion.
