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7.13 LEGAL AFFAIRS
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7.13.1 The New Civilization Foundation will support and encourage
experimentation into new models for social order, regulation and ethical
conduct. The NCF will be supportive of creating institutions to research and
monitor existing or proposed legislation in many regions and topics, that
inform the public about threats to their freedom, health or happiness, and
that support appropriate changes in existing law and order.
7.13.2 The first role for NCF is in the active support and encouragement of
alternative forms of law -- specifically experimentation into new versions of
social structure and conduct. NCF communities may, within their own borders,
experiment with such things as Common Law concepts and other techniques which
suggest means by which sustainable justice, equality, and legal integrity can
be more readily and precisely obtained, enhanced, and/or fostered.
7.13.3 The second potential NCF role in Legal Affairs is that of the
monitoring, watchdog service whose primary goal is to ensure the freedom,
health and happiness of every member of the human race by providing timely,
accurate, and understandable descriptions of the current state of laws being
considered, already on-the-books, and their anticipated effects on society at
large. The latter category includes the actual or possible effects of any law
or set of laws being legally or illegally enforced (or in some cases,
unjustifiably ignored). NCF's Legal Affairs Monitoring (LAM) would also
include all levels of court, agency, and other governmental rulings, their
interpretations and effects, and the content and degree of counter arguments
and criticisms.
7.13.3.1 The extent of such monitoring could extend from the installation of
speed cameras by government or business, to the legal control of health
products and services, from educational issues to freedom of the press, and
from environmental law to any potential threat to humanity's freedom, health
or happiness. NCF may also provide transcriptions of Old Civ laws,
regulations, tax codes, and other governmental data on the InterNet in
user-friendly language, along with possible alternatives to such
regulations.
7.13.3.2 NCF Legal Affairs may also include promoting and initiating the
modification of existing local, state, and national laws and codes in order to
allow and facilitate the design, testing, manufacture, and use of alternative
technologies in housing, transportation, energy generation and use, human
waste reclamation, health practices and systems, farming methods and
practices, and other innovations which may be advanced by one or more NCF
seeded communities.
7.13.4 NCF Legal Affairs will also patent all inventions and process
discovered or created by NCF Staff, community members, or participants in NCF
related organizations as requested by the inventors. NCF Legal Affairs will
also monitor all inventions, trademarks, and copyrights held by the NCF for
unauthorized use by others.
7.13.4.1 Also, on a pro bono, no strings attached basis, NCF Legal
Affairs will patent inventions by others as long as those inventions are not
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