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Wouldn't they just lobby to reduce the fees once they ratcheted up too high?

• barrkel 9y ago
  This is a universal argument against all copyright reform.
  • reificator 9y ago
    And simultaneously the most important argument in favor of copyright reform.
• ajmurmann 9y ago
  It's awful how the damn mouse is completely poisoning the discussion. There are thousands and thousands of works that aren't entering the public domain. Many movies or older video games are actually inaccessible today because the copyright situation is unclear because for example done doing got used that now world need to get relicensed in order to make the work available and/or it's unclear who to even talk to about that. If non action would move works into public domain a huge part of all those works would be in the public domain and a big part of the problem would be solved. Instead not only is Disney poisoning the well because they care deeply about one particular extreme case of copyright that's still valuable to them, but the entire discussion is hard to have without people bringing up the stupid edge case that's the mouse and derailing the discussion with what's really a very small part of the issue at hand.
  • CuriousSkeptic 9y ago
    Even if non action would move thing to the public domain. How would you know? It seems to me that the uncertainties would still remain. As you say it might even be unclear who to talk to. How would I protect my self from liability? I mean we’ve had free software licenses of various kinds for quite a few years now, and lawyers are still uneasy about the whole thing.
    • ajmurmann 9y ago
      I assume the system would require copyright to be tracked somewhere so that payments for extension can be made. That place could be used to track. For our stuff for which you know a extension would have had to be filed, absence in the register should be all you need.