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There's a real cost to government and society enforcing the copyright monopoly for the copyright owner. So why not have the copyright holder pay for upholding c
by markvdb 6y ago
There's a real cost to government and society enforcing the copyright monopoly for the copyright owner. So why not have the copyright holder pay for upholding copyright?
Imagine differential pricing for enforcing copyright on a work depending on parameters:
- grow with every passing year
- change with the level of protection required
- zero for public domain and free (BSD/GPL/permissive CC style licensing)
- symbolical amounts for CC no derivatives or non-commercial licensing
- fixed amount plus percentage of revenue for other, more traditional licensing
- gamblor956 6y agoThe copyright owner pays the costs of enforcing copyright already...
- markvdb 6y agoEverybody obviously pays for copyright enforcement already through general taxation. Look at orphan works for a prime example of how this is less than ideal.
- jonny_eh 6y agoBut that doesn't allow someone to violate the copyright, due to the potential risk, like a troll jumping out from below a bridge. It'd be better if there was a way to easily check if a copyright was being actively paid and maintained.