5 ms·

>If you don't reply in some reasonable amount of time (say three months), then the copyright is considered abandoned and the work enters the public domain. I'm

>If you don't reply in some reasonable amount of time (say three months), then the copyright is considered abandoned and the work enters the public domain. I'm not sure why I'm legally required to respond to requests for the use of my copyrighted works. I can simply ignore them. Requiring that I respond to them will create an undue burden on me. I don't mind as long as I can bill you personally for forcing me to hire someone to respond to such requests, at a reasonable rate for a legal attorney with a specialty in copyright. He can even provide invoices, although the time required to produce the invoice will be included in the invoice.

jedberg 3y ago
You don't have to respond. You just have to acknowledge that you've received the request and that you still wish to hold the copyright.
- benabbottnz 3y ago
  Then everyone will just use an auto-reply service.
  - jedberg 3y ago
    Which would be fine, because those services still cost money and/or require maintenance. There would still be a way to track down the owner of the copyright. You could even make it part of the law that the respondent must be the copyright holder or have had contact with the copyright holder within the last X days.
- LegitShady 3y ago
  Why should I pay to respond because you want to use my copyrighted material? You're the one with the request, I don't have to respond to it. You want a guaranteed response, you pay me for that response. How about you pay me to respond to you instead? At copyright attorney rates for my region. You send my attorney a request and your billing information, and he'll reply to you on my behalf and send you the invoice for his time. Otherwise people will be able to cause huge financial impositions by essentially DDOSing people with copyright requests. You want a guaranteed response, you pay for that response in advance, otherwise kick rocks.

jedberg 3y ago

You don't have to respond. You just have to acknowledge that you've received the request and that you still wish to hold the copyright.

benabbottnz 3y ago
Then everyone will just use an auto-reply service.
- jedberg 3y ago
  Which would be fine, because those services still cost money and/or require maintenance. There would still be a way to track down the owner of the copyright. You could even make it part of the law that the respondent must be the copyright holder or have had contact with the copyright holder within the last X days.
LegitShady 3y ago
Why should I pay to respond because you want to use my copyrighted material? You're the one with the request, I don't have to respond to it. You want a guaranteed response, you pay me for that response. How about you pay me to respond to you instead? At copyright attorney rates for my region. You send my attorney a request and your billing information, and he'll reply to you on my behalf and send you the invoice for his time. Otherwise people will be able to cause huge financial impositions by essentially DDOSing people with copyright requests. You want a guaranteed response, you pay for that response in advance, otherwise kick rocks.