The negative wants to make a unique argument.

The easier it is to get a patent the harder it is to innovate things.

Offensive Overview

- The offensive brings the arguments that the neg will introduce to the round

4 main arguments
- Disadvantage
- Topicality
- Counter plan
- K
Disadvantages
- The most basic type of argument for the neg
- Link: how the plan changes the system
- Internal link: an explanation of how change made by the plan leads to a
problem
- Impact: The big issue that we want to avoid, typically it is extinction. 9/10
the impact is Nuke War.
- Uniqueness: an explanation of how the current system is doing. Typically
there is a brink

Disadvantages pt2

- Not all DA’s fit every Aff, make sure you check the link before
running it.
- The impact: if the supposed impact is something that the aff is
claiming to solve, you may have a tough time selling it to the judge.
- Have you read it? Remember the DA is a story then you’re going to
have a tougher time selling it to someone else.
- Combo your DA with either off-case arguments. Force the Aff to
fight.

Disadvantages pt3

- Attack the uniqueness

 - Thumper- Disproves the brink
- SQ overwhelms SQ is so great right now that even if the DA were to
happen it wouldn’t be that bad
- Attack the link
- No link the DA doesn’t connect to the plan
- No internal link arguing that the plan couldn’t result in an impact
- Attack the impact
- Aff solves for the impact
- Impact turn “Actually it's a good thing”

Topicality

- We have a resolution and it is the Aff's job to make a plan that falls under it
- T argues that the aff team is “out of bounds” and therefore should lose the
round.
- Care Arguments
- Interp: the definition of the world in the resolution that the neg argues that
the neg argues the judge should prefer.
- Clash: which definition provides the best chance for argumentation
- Limits: which definitions limit the topic to what can rationally be expected
- Ground: Which definition allows for the neg to have room to debate
- Moving Target: removes the aff ability to have “fuzzy” definitions

Topicality pt2-

Effects T
- The plan is not topical, but the AdV’s are

Extra T
- Part of the plan is topical, but it contains extra parts that are not

Topicality pt3

- I won’t ask you to run T for now, but you need to know how to answer it.
 - As an Aff, you need to know
- First, say “We meet your definition
- Provide a counter Interp
- Argue against their standards
- Make sure you completely answer all the parts of the T
- As an aff, you want to make sure your definition is reasonable therefore
legal
Counter plan

- Be Aware
- When you run a counter plan you are arguing with the Aff on some of their
points.

- Counter plan text

- It's the plan text

- Solvency
- Net benefit
- The reason your plan is better

Competition
-The reason your plan has to be picked

Counterplan pt2
-AI copy right
- The USFG creates the means for copyright holders to opt out of their
material from being used to train AI programs

Shop safe
- Data sharing CP

Pera
-Prizes cp

Counter plan pt3

Perm
 - Argue that both plans can be done at the same time, therefore there is no
reason to vote neg

- Attack the link

- Like running DA’s against the cp
- Theory
- Essentially attacking the motive of the NEG team
- Solvency Deflict
- Attack the solvency on the CP

Rebuttals
- Say why what you’ve said is good
- Go back to the cards you’ve already read
- Warranting to the judge/ present evidence
- Talk about what you’ve answered already
- Talk pretty confidence is key (this is how you get speaker points)
- It is ok to prewrite your rebuttals (as a novice)
- Talk pretty and work hard
- 1AR is the hardest speech (5 mins)
- (1AR) Take the core of the arguments and dumb it down for the judges
- Give the judges a simple explanation covering all case arguments
- Extend if you have tim
- 2AR the last speech in a round
- You can change the whole course of the debate
- Thank your judges at the end of the round
- Go over what the 2NR said in their speech

Neg Rebuttals
- 1NR cover your critique
- Topicality - A really strong argument, but only a few people know how to
respond to it properly.
- Two world scenario
- DA doesn’t take out harm and inherency
- 2NR
- All arguments are focused directly on what is going on in this round
- Sit down and recognize what arguments you're going to win
 - The more different your attacks are the less easy the Aff has

Novice Topicality

Brief Overview
- Topicality is a stock issue
- T argues that the AFF is NOT under this year's resolution
- T consists of arguments
- Interpretation
- Neg presents a definition of a word in the res
- Violation
- Neg presents how the Aff fails to meet its definition
- Standards
- Where you win or lose a topicality argument
- Voters
- Neg presents reasons to vote neg to punish the Aff

T. VS Shop Safe- Domestic

- Interp
- Domestic means it must take place only within the U.S.
- Violation
- Parts of the Shop Safe Act are applied outside of the U.S.
borders
- Standard
- Limits- the topic is small enough for the neg to be prepared
- Ground- -aff can claim advantages that the neg should not need
to prep for
- Voters
- Fairness- makes sure the debate is fair to both sides
- Education- makes sure that the debate is educationally valuable
So what’s an AFF to do?
 - The aff argues they do in fact meet the neg’s definition
- Plan hold platforms U.S. is responsible even if sellers are
not in the U.S.
- Predictability - our definition is very predictable
- No limits or ground loss- use in commerce rules out treaties
- No education - this is the core controversy in ™ law
- Reasonability
- Prefure reasonability - arguing over who has better
definitions is a waste of time and bad debate, prefer
substance debate, not definition debate.
T. Vs Pera - Strengthen
Interp -
-Strengthen - means to expand to make things more patentable
- Violation
- Pera introduces new exceptions on what can be patented therefore
weakening
-Standard
- Extratropical - some parts are topical, but some aren’t
-Ground-neg is not able to claim DAs because their links are for
expanding eligibility, not narrowing it
Voters-
-Fairness makes sure the debate is fair to both sides
-Education - makes sure that the debate is educationally valuable

Aff -
- Counter interp
- We met
- Reasonability
- Prefer our interp/standards

Counter plan -
- Offers a better policy option than the aff
- Creates advantages beyond the cp
- Can do the opposite of the plan
- Can include most of the plan
- Mirrors real-life policy and argumentation
- Can also be a test of the resolution or an aff as a whole
The basic idea of a counter-plan
- Neg introduces a counter-proposal to solve the issue at
hand. Supposedly it is a better option than the first.
- Can the CP and the plan be done at the same time?
- What benefits are there?

- The first thing you need on a CP is a CP text

- Without counter-plan text, there is no cp
- Solvency evidence
- Net benefit
- A net benefit is just a dis ad run

- The CP must be competitive

- How to show your CP is competitive

- Through the net benefit

- Neg team reserves the right to kick the CP at anytime

- 99% of CPs are conditional
-

- Data Sharing (Shop Safe)

- Plan text
 - online and law enforcement agencies need to have a way
to communicate with each other
- Solvency
- The CP solves the case
- Net benefit
- Avoids the DA
- Circular economy isn’t disrupted as a trademark holders

- How to respond to the CP

- Act like you’re the negative now
- Attack the solvency
- bring up solvency deficit the problem
- Turn the argument
- sharing info drains resources because it just reacting to
threats
- Perm
- Remember, a CP can’t win if it's not competitive
- Perm do both

- Opt-Out (AI)
- Solvency
- an opt-out process that protects creators from having their
works used
- Net benefit
- Avoids the DA
- Scientific research has an answer to it
On Case arg
- Inherency
- Take out Solvency
 - Case specific DA

Disads
- Da’s are off-case arguments
- Uniqueness
- Link
- Internal link
- Impact

AI industry DA
-Uniqueness
-The AI industry is booming
-Link
-SS- Making AI companies liable discourages people from
creating AI
Internal link & Impact
- AI innovation prevents extinction
- Better and faster decisions
- AI industry DA Answers
- The AI industry is a bubble
- Turn
- Without contributory liability, AI will abuse loopholes
- The plan makes AI better
- No impact
- Ai can’t solve for social issues
- AI carries bias creators
- Racism, sexism, hunger
- AI will fail because of model collapse
 - Court Clog DA
- Courts are managing case load now
- SS COMPANIES BECAUSE OF THE PLAn now have to
start litigation with every person who is counterfeiting
- Courts solve for climate change with lawsuits
- Climate change causes extension
- Court Clog Da Answers
- Courts will see cases regardless of the Aff
- Current ™ laws are adding to caseload & hurting small
businesses too
- The plan reduces court clogs by solving issues to create
court clogs
- Courts won't solve climate change
- Climate change will not kill us all

Inflation
- Inflation is slowing now
- SS- Plan incentives for companies to sue anyone selling
second-hand items, causing scarcity and killing competition,
driving prices up
- Inflation causes economic downturn
- Economic downturn causes war
Inflation Da Answers
-Nonunique
-Prices will stay high regardless of plan
- Secondary Liability reduces the cost of enforcement
-Plan lowers enforcement cost SQ is more costly
- Economy is resilient it will survive inflation
- Economic downturn does not cause war
Kritiks
- Don't fall into the K trap
- Know your audience
- They can be both aff and neg most commonly neg
- Criticism of a mindset, argument, or structure
- Link
- Impact
- Alternative
- Link
- How the aff links to the Kritik
- Impact
- Why whatever the K claims you link to is bad
- Alternative
- The alt generally tells you to reject the aff and instead
embrace it
- Framework
- Tells the judge how to evaluate the argument
- K aff
- 1AC reads it

Cap K
- An economic and political system in which a country’s trade
and industry are controlled.
- Two major classes
- The Bourgeoisie
- Rich, nonworking
- The Proletrait
- working class
- Commodities
- Made for trade not for producers to use
- Everything can be bought to some extent
- Intellectual property is a commodity
- Money- even though money is a commodity can't be bought
or sold.
- Capital- is the money is the special form used to start
commodity production
- Surplus- Value
- Profit motive
- Have to underpay the workers because the producers so
they can make money
- Machinery less manual labor
- Commodities become cheaper
- The worker becomes less valuable
- Labor power becomes cheaper
- The boss’s job is to make sure you don’t die
- Relies on the exploitation of the worker

How to deal with an open case

- Step 0
- Go to open
- Find Generic arguments
- DA’s
- CP’s
- Topicality
- K’s
- All the evidence you have in the world is useless if you don’t
know how/why to use them
- Fear is the mind-killer
- Make sure what you’re flowing
- Make sure their Aff is downloaded
- Make the best argument you can
- Ask Cross-X questions or read their general plan
- You may have to cut your own cards
- Go in no evidence, all analytics