[matheusmoreira]

Yeah. The US pretty much exports its laws. It uses its vast economic leverage to impose US laws on everyone else via trade agreements, treaties.

It did the same thing with intellectual property. It will put sovereign countries in a literal naughty list when they don't accomodate US company interests.

[joshspankit]

I wonder how much of the imposed laws are also a direct result of the Disney company (who pushed the US who pushed others)

[matheusmoreira]

They are a direct result of the lobbying of companies like Disney. It's plain to see in the naughty list I mentioned.

https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/2019_Special_301_Report...

Search the document for "interest". Plenty of talk about interested parties, rights holders. Euphemisms for US corporations using the might of the US government and its military to interfere in foreign countries. I've read some US documents discussing my country like it's a problem to be solved. Like it's a new planet they intend to terraform. It's surreal. Documents essentially saying things like "these places continue to be a problem, the local authorities aren't doing what we want them to do".

Essentially the US has "concerns" and it expects and "urges" other countries to address them by criminalizing anything that hurts the profits of US corporations, which they call "US economic interests". Yeah, because we totally have room in our prisons to lock up my country's entire population for copyright infringement. They must think we have nothing better to do.

They'll even put Canada, their neighbor and ally, in the watchlist. They write things like:

> Right holders also report that Canadian courts have established meaningful penalties against circumvention devices and services.

It's so incredibly surreal. "Yeah, our corporations have been saying you've been a good little country, Mr. Canada. Keep doing what they tell you and we might just take you off the naughty list next year." I don't even know what to say. Imagine being a politician who has to swallow language like this from world powers like the US all the time.

[joshspankit]

Ugh. The wording in this document is disgusting. It reads like it’s from the evil teacher from a movie: “The United States remains deeply troubled by the ambiguous education-related exception added to the copyright law”.

Deeply troubled? Like “We’re very concerned with your daughter’s inability to submit assignments as requested. We suspect there’s trouble at home and hope we don’t have to involve the authorities.” “You mean when you asked her to draw a cat and she drew a cat then coloured it purple?” “Yes, exactly! She must be either developmentally delayed, or poorly parented. In either case it’s very concerning.”