The Sovereign Title (1)
Recently Prof. Alain Souloumiac, President of the World creator’s Society wrote a new book called ‘The Sovereign Title”.
Much credit goes to him for being able to look ahead to the future while implementing the Universal Standard for Intellectual Property (Creafree).
Everyone concerned about IP should read this book and try to think outside the box.
The book, written in French, has more than 270 pages, and as Secretary General of the French NGO and promoting his work for many years, I feel obliged to inform the public about this work that could become a paradigm shift towards the future.
By implementing the key points of the Universal Standard for Intellectual Properties he explains how it will:
1. Master offshoring.
2. Assure a guarantee of return on Research & Development Investment.
3. Promote responsible growth.
4. Reduce the climate transition.
5. Solve demographic migrations.
6. Develop citizenship and participation.
At St. Helen, Napoleon wrote “My real glory is not to have won forty battles; Waterloo will erase the memory of so many victories.
What nothing will erase, what will live eternally, is my Civil Code.”
INTRODUCTION 1
A standard is a private norm based on good practice, established by stakeholders and serving a general or professional interest.
The standard which forms the subject of the book “The Sovereign Title” concerns the right of the author of the “domain” he creates.
The Civil Code is the writing that defined the essence of property rights in France and in many other countries of the world.
To allow us to situate the Universal Standard of Intellectual Property in relation to the challenges facing the contemporary world, we reflect on the work and thought of one of the main author, Jean-Etienne-Marie de Portalis.
This great jurist was chosen by Bonaparte (at that time First Consul) to head the commission responsible for drafting the Civil Code. After the numerous and brutal reforms generated by the various impulses of the French Revolution, stabilizing the law became crucial. Portalis devoted himself relentlessly. The first project was completed in less than a year. Portalis died shortly after the promulgation of the final text. His legacy was celebrated by Napoleon. The Emperor organized a state funeral in his honor, during which his body was placed in the Pantheon.
According to the Preliminary Speech of the First Civil Code Project presented by Portalis to the Council of State, the right to property is the basis of freedom, the development of wealth and responsibility.
Thanks to the French Revolution, human beings ceased to be the subjects of a King. They become free citizens; that is, the fruit of their labor belongs to them. Introducing a simple and clear law protecting this new freedom by relying on the right to property is the work of the Civil Code.
According to Portalis, “the preservation of civil liberty is the main aim of the drafting of the Civil Code and individual property is the essential foundation of this liberty”. One of the earliest legacies of the Code of Portalis is the property foundation of freedom.
Property rights also play an active role in the development of the wealth of nations. According to Portalis, “It was property that founded human societies. It is property who vivified, extended, enlarged our own existence. It is through it that the industry of man, this spirit of movement and of life which animates everything, was carried over the waters and gave birth in various climates to all the seeds of wealth and power (….) No one would have planted, sowed, or built, if the domains had not been separated, and if each individual had not been assured of peacefully possessing his own”.
Property is the force which builds the dynamic of private initiative.
The responsibility of the citizen, the counterpart of freedom, is another legacy of the Civil Code. The Code sets two simple and uniform rules that everyone can know, understand and apply in all circumstances:
• “ Any act of man, which causes damage to another obliges him by whose fault it happened to repair it.”
• “We are responsible not only for the damage we cause by our own act, but also for that which is caused by the acts of people for whom we must answer, or things that we have in our care”.
Implemented according to good practice, the main principles of the Civil Code should ensure the legal, technical and ecological security of all citizens. It did not because of several historical forces which destroyed the essential meaning of property which the book of Prof. Souloumiac identifies. The aim of the new standard is to implement the Universal de restore the true property rights through a “Sovereign Title”.
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Table of Contents
The Sovereign Title
- Introduction 1
Introduction 2
Introduction 3
Introduction 4
Introduction 5
The intellectual property revolution : Chapter 1
(Cf) Creafree 2021
