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posted by CoolHand on Monday November 07 2016, @08:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the politics-for-geeks dept.

Ars published a story about the effects the winner of Tuesday's presidential election could have on intellectional property issues:

The hot-button issues this election can be counted on one's fingers—and for most voters, things like copyright and patent policy don't make the list. Assigned to a wonkish zone far from the Sunday morning talk shows, intellectual property issues aren't near the heart of our deeply polarized political discourse.

Of the two major party candidates in 2016, only the Democratic candidate has a platform that even addresses copyright and patent policies. So today, let's look at what we know about Hillary Clinton's plan, and make some informed speculation about what could happen to these areas under a Donald Trump presidency.\

Given that the campaign is focused (as always) on a relatively small group of issues, tech policy watchers who spoke to Ars were surprised to see a presidential platform that mentions IP issues at all. Clinton's briefing paper on technology and innovation addresses both copyright and patent issues directly, and that in itself is something of a surprise. Trump's website has no such information, so the best clues to his approach lie in his public statements and the people he has surrounded himself with.


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  • (Score: 2) by wisnoskij on Tuesday November 08 2016, @12:12PM

    by wisnoskij (5149) <{jonathonwisnoski} {at} {gmail.com}> on Tuesday November 08 2016, @12:12PM (#424030)

    The concept of mutually assured destruction comes from having large arsenals of large nukes squared off on opposing sides. The US, particularly if we regain a little of Russia's and China's good will and get into less of a standoff situation could use any number of nukes in the middle east as long as we retained enough of them to still assure mutual destruction with Russia and China. Since Syria is not capable of offering mutually assured nuclear destruction to us, they are free game.

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