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
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.
But that just means that those with deep pockets get to keep it, and
those without, don't
Though I'm not against the scheme per-se, I did like the punitive nature
of the Stuart's "to the power of" rather than simple multiplicative.
Even @ a base fee of $2, Mickey can't hold onto his copyrights for much
longer than 30 years without paying more than 1 billion dollars
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