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I would like to see a copyright that expired quickly, but had unlimited renewals for ever increasing fees. This would allow the top % of copyright works that r

I would like to see a copyright that expired quickly, but had unlimited renewals for ever increasing fees. This would allow the top % of copyright works that remain profitable to be held by their creators, while the vast majority of work would quickly pass into the public domain. Plus, the larger fees on ridiculously long copyrights (Mickey Mouse) would help pay for the officials who oversee the whole thing.

jacques_chester 15y ago
An exponential function which suppresses early costs would be ideal. Something that approaches billions / year some time around year 40, for example. I'm not sure whether it's the right approach for patents -- pharmaceutical companies for example would just keep cranking up the prices until they reached the maximum economic return.