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You also have to charge a fee/pigouvian tax on the renewals. When renewal is free, there's a substantial deadweight drag on society as a result from everyone re
by jaggederest 1y ago
You also have to charge a fee/pigouvian tax on the renewals. When renewal is free, there's a substantial deadweight drag on society as a result from everyone renewing by default.
- bawolff 1y agoEven without a fee, requiring renewal at least means stuff that people have totally forgotten about doesn't get renewed, and stuff that does get renewed at least has a recentish owner on record. It would be a large improvement over the status quo of having a term of 70 years after the death of the author.
- Bratmon 1y agoEven if all it required was one to sign an affidavit saying they are the current copyright holder, that would solve a LOT of archiving problems.