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How many 20 year old pieces of copyrighted work you know where the copyright holder would be willing to pay 130 Million USD in taxes to keep the copyright one m
by beefield 9y ago
How many 20 year old pieces of copyrighted work you know where the copyright holder would be willing to pay 130 Million USD in taxes to keep the copyright one more year? I can't think of a single one.
- dingo_bat 9y agoHow do you determine the unit of work though? Every C file counts as an independent work? Or a module? Or a system?
- beefield 9y agoFrankly, I have thought this more around books, music and patents than software. Obviously there should be some way to accommodate changing work, then.
- emiliobumachar 9y agoIt could be left at the discretion of the holder, with fair use being an escape valve to prevent abuse. e.g., Disney won't stich together all their movies in a year-long pseudo unit of work, because, if it did so, a two-hour clip from that work would fall under fair use.
- pwg 9y agoHow did you calculate 130 Million? An initial cost of 1000 USD, doubled every year, for 20 years is: 1000 * (2^20) (where ^ means exponentiation). Or 1,048,576,000 USD - a wee bit over 1 billion dollars for the 20th year.
- beefield 9y agoI calculated a couple of free years in the beginning as per my original post. But I may also have missed by one or two years in my no more existing spreadsheet