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How would this system operate on an international level? Whom would foreign creators pay to have their work copyrighted in the US? If you let everyone pay thei
by proveanegative 12y ago
How would this system operate on an international level? Whom would foreign creators pay to have their work copyrighted in the US? If you let everyone pay their country's government but still respect their copyright internationally then the country with the lowest fees will see a huge volume of copyright offshoring. If you make everyone pay each country separately then copyrighting one's work will suddenly become expensive for individuals and $properties not being registered on $island will be exploited.
- AnthonyMouse 12y agoYou could just do it like they do for various taxes. You register in every country but you can deduct the fee already paid to another country from what you owe, so the total amount you pay is equal to the fee from the country with the highest fee that you've registered in. It should be easy to automate this electronically to the point where you upload a copy of the work and check the box for every country you want to register in and it does them all at the same time. Or you could just have every country charge the same fee and let people register in their home countries to much the same effect. And I'm not sure what you're talking about with being exploited on $island. You can imagine about the same thing happening there as happens in countries that already don't have copyright enforcement, i.e. nobody cares because nobody there has any real money anyway. It's not like they can export to countries where the copyright is registered.