Stewart Stremler wrote:
begin quoting Andrew Lentvorski as of Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 10:31:07AM -0700:
Gabriel Sechan wrote:
[snip]
Not too badly so- I'm sure Disney will pay them to extend it again when
Mickey Mouse gets close to public domain again.
Which is the most annoying part about the whole controversy, there
doesn't have to be one.
Let people extend copyright on a sliding scale.
0- 20 years -- free and automatic
20- 40 years -- free, but requires registration
40- 60 years -- $X and requires registration
60- 80 years -- $2X and requires registration
80-100 years -- $4X and requires registration
etc.
$<standard fee>^<# years - 20>
That's a *little* extreme.
I was thinking more along the lines of:
$<standard fee> * 2^int(# years / 20)
Yes, even *this* one eventually gets expensive, but it takes quite a
while. It needs to *eventually* get expensive so that we don't wind up
with the equivalent of cybersquatters (ie. it is so cheap to park on a
domain that they get vacuumed up by the boatload).
I figure that Big Mouse(tm) has enough money that it can take care of
bribing the government for a single special exemption if the exponential
gets too unreasonable even for them.
Most things would fall out of copyright at the 20 year mark (40 if you
allow retroactive in that period). If $X is reasonable, $X*10 is also
likely to be reasonable, so authors should be able to maintain the
copyright through their expected lifetime for a reasonable amount of money.
-a
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