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I'd really love to see some kind of copyright system that makes it economic. Something like you get the first 30 years for free/cheap. After 30 years you have
by msandford 13y ago
I'd really love to see some kind of copyright system that makes it economic.
Something like you get the first 30 years for free/cheap.
After 30 years you have to start paying at $1k/year but it goes up 30% per year.
1.3 ^ 30 = 2619 so you'd pay $2.6mm for another year in year 60 of copy protection
1.3 ^ 60 = 6864377 so Disney would have to decide if it was worth it to pay $6.8 billion (or more) every year to keep Mickey under copyright.
Even better if we could back-date it so that next year Disney has to cough up $40 billion or so to keep everything locked up.
- GrinningFool 13y agoThey tried that, with much lower fees[1]. I don't believe it's ever come to vote. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Domain_Enhancement_Act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Domain_Enhancement_Act
- msandford 13y agoThat's a good way of keeping track of who owns what and getting stuff out into the public domain if it's an orphaned work. But it doesn't do anything to stop the infinite copyright of books or movies or music. There's no reason that I couldn't write a book and assign the rights to a corporation which could then pay $1/year on it for as long as the US continues to exist. I think there needs to be some kind of mechanism that eventually forces copyrighted works into the public domain. And it should probably be less than a lifetime.