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yoz-y · 2019-05-22 05:11:04+00:00

It would but then a good part of the world would have to change their convention. I don’t think they see any good reason to adopt our conventions.

M2Ys4U | karma 4934 | avg karma 3.07 · | 2019-04-16 11:25:58

The US should just implement Convention 108+ like the rest of the world.

mc32 | karma 33963 | avg karma 2.39 · | 2021-01-19 14:30:11+00:00

It would be harder to lobby in dozens of international jurisdictions, for example, they’d have a hard time imposing western values in Turkey or Iran, for example and vice versa, which I think we’d be better off with.

mc32 | karma 33963 | avg karma 2.39 · | 2022-09-27 10:00:47

If this were a universal convention of some sort with worldwide signatories, yes, ok. Otherwise this should be up to the discretion and jurisdiction of the local authorities, not a foreign body of law imposing its conventions extraterritorially.

sxates | karma 1973 | avg karma 5.19 · | 2017-10-26 22:11:17

Not if it was equally applied to all nationalities.

DamonHD | karma 2383 | avg karma 1.69 · | 2024-01-02 12:39:07

Generally the Berne Convention makes that so in most of the world, not just the US.

mc32 | karma 33963 | avg karma 2.39 · | 2021-08-27 09:19:52

That would seem to be a logical choice. I would welcome this decision in the US.

gremloni | karma 361 | avg karma 0.79 · | 2021-10-19 17:31:20

It’s easier but if you want every country to adopt this there’s going to be a fight about a new baseline country

stryk | karma 1258 | avg karma 5.67 · | 2018-01-26 21:37:20

It may, but they'll play hell trying to enforce it worldwide, as if any countries would let them (some may).

foverzar | karma 462 | avg karma 0.61 · | 2022-09-26 01:20:19

It could, if the CAs were globally distributed. Unfortunately currently they are all under the US influence.

pavel_lishin | karma 46523 | avg karma 3.63 · | 2011-02-08 21:10:50+00:00

What do you mean by "we"? First, you'd have to get all of the states to sign off on this, including the weird ones that half-follow and half-don't-follow the conventions. I'm not even sure if this is something the Federal government could just demand.

Oh, and then you also have to convince every other government to implement, too.

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markvdb | karma 2254 | avg karma 2.61 · | 2021-04-05 13:35:16+00:00

That will work as long as other countries accept it.

emodendroket | karma 21781 | avg karma 1.83 · | 2017-12-02 04:42:04+00:00

Probably not. What basis do you have to think that any government, let alone all of them, are going to adapt it?

adrianmonk | karma 9385 | avg karma 3.71 · | 2020-07-14 14:54:36+00:00

They already do that in the United States as well, too. so there would be literally no change. Like you, I'm also not seeing how that could be an obstacle.

cjbprime | karma 11682 | avg karma 4.23 · | 2020-01-04 13:27:56+00:00

In theory, so does the US.

tim333 | karma 15551 | avg karma 1.53 · | 2014-11-25 06:47:04

If there was an agreement between some major funding agencies to insist on that, not just US Govt but UK and Europe too then it would probably be enough to switch everything over. It'd get my vote.

gjvnq | karma 236 | avg karma 1.35 · | 2022-05-25 16:32:32

For this to happen, we would need all the world to have compatible laws.

Doing that without eroding national sovereignty is essentially impossible. We would need something like the European Union for all of humanity.

And even the somewhat limited powers delegated to the EU were enough to cause serious backslash as we have seen during Brexit.

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saraid216 | karma 6617 | avg karma 1.54 · | 2012-10-23 06:14:12+00:00

Yeah, it wouldn't work in the US. I'd like to see it thrown out as a hypothetical to see how people would react, though.

yucky | karma 343 | avg karma 0.15 · | 2022-10-06 12:50:25

Is that a logical conclusion? Seems like other countries would do the same if it were that simple.

flir | karma 3086 | avg karma 2.09 · | 2023-07-13 09:17:43

Sounds like it would work in pretty much every country except America.