To amend this a bit: * In order to sue for any copyright violation it must be both registered and the current owner kept up-to-date in a publicly-accessibl

To amend this a bit: * In order to sue for any copyright violation it must be both registered and the current owner kept up-to-date in a publicly-accessible registry. That way if you want to know who owns the copyright to any given thing you can do a quick search. Incorrect ownership records should result in the forfeit of the copyright. * Provide a central notification system for all copyright claims. So to file the equivalent of a DMCA takedown notice a copyright holder would have to file the claim in the government-run system (i.e. not some unregulated 3rd party system). This would require that they keep their ownership records up to date. * Penalties for false claims and should be severe. Akin to tax fraud. * The sale of any and all copyrights must be recorded in the system and the sale price should be recorded for tax purposes. No different than filing the sale of a home with your state/local authorities. Note: This isn't the same as selling licenses to said copyrights. We also need serious reform of statutory values for copyright violations. Copying a file (say, a song) is most definitely not worthy of a $750 punishment let alone $30,000 (the current statutory values for registered copyright violations). These values should also not compound based on the number of works that were copied. A single individual could copy (aka "distribute") 1000 books in a few seconds but there's no way that this is worth $750,000 (minimum) of damages to the owner of those copyrights.