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Assuming fee based renewal, proportionate to revenue is problematic for works that fall out of publishing. There's lots of works from when I was young that nob
by toast0 2y ago
Assuming fee based renewal, proportionate to revenue is problematic for works that fall out of publishing.
There's lots of works from when I was young that nobody is interested in publishing, even though I would like to see them again. They make zero revenue now (and probably didn't make much before), so I suspect the rights holders would abandon them if they had to pay any fee, especially an escalating fee.
I'm personally less worried about works that remain in print.
- zarzavat 2y agoCouldn't you print it yourself? If it's that obscure and that important to you to own a hard copy.
- bluGill 2y agoPrint them how? Am I supposed to type up all the pages of that falling apart book - book scanning helps but still requires extensive effort? What about the page that got ripped out and is missing, how do I recreate that? While it is likely legal for me to go through all that effort for myself, it isn't legal for me to share the fruits of my effort with someone else who wants a copy so they need to do it themself. Even if they have a worn out copy themself it isn't clear that I can print them a new copy. If I want to share this work with someone else who might want it I'm stuck - I can only do the above for personal use.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 2y ago> I suspect the rights holders would abandon them if they had to pay any fee Wouldn’t that just put the works in the public domain, allowing others to legally publish the works? What would be the downside?
- toast0 2y agoYes, that's the upside. That's why people want a meaningful fee. If it's revenue based and there's no revenue, then the rightsholder will renew to protect their options.