DJA wrote:
Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
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.
If Disney wants to keep Mickey under copyright effectively forever
*fine*. Make them pay for the privilege.
That's the stupidest solution I've seen yet. It's functionally not that
different than the current system: if you want your copyright extended
beyond the period current law allows, then you just lobby Congress for
as long as needed until you get the law changed.
What I proposed is *very* different from our current system.
Under our current system, when Big Mouse(tm) needs to up its copyrights
it ups *all* copyrights instead of just its own.
This locks up *everything*. Under what I propsed, the damage that Big
Mouse(tm) inflicts is limited only to its own properties.
-a
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