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I’ve seen this and similarly structured ideas floated since the Slashdot days, and they resonate with me—but there’s never a corresponding path to actually get
by Arubis 6y ago
I’ve seen this and similarly structured ideas floated since the Slashdot days, and they resonate with me—but there’s never a corresponding path to actually get buy-in from legislators. Feels similar to, but distinct from, a tragedy of the commons situation—the commons would benefit from supporting something like this, but there’s no organizing to make it happen and insufficient individual incentive to do it on behalf of the general public.
- anonunivgrad 6y agoBeyond the tragedy of the commons w/r/t the general public, the other problem (or maybe a specific aspect of the same problem) is that the commercial beneficiaries of shorter copyright are companies and projects that don't exist yet. It's hard for hypothetical future businesses to lobby against existing current businesses.