Michael O'Keefe wrote:
3) Copyrights are non-renewable, non-assignable, non-inheritable, and
non-transferable. Copyrights cannot be held as collateral, traded,
sold, bartered, or used as currency.
I write a great novel hoping to put my kids through college. It hits
big, but I keel over. My estate gets bukis (sp?) under your plan. Or I'm
a great writer, but I really need a publisher to push my work. So I need
to be able to sign it over.
Life's funny that way, ain't it.
But I can appreciate that. But your kids didn't write the novel, you
did. Maybe you should have put some of those royalties in a good
investment fund for them. Or encourage them to do something creative
like you did.
Would it be unreasonable to suggest that the coporations might put a hit
out on someone who owns the copyright of something they want, so under
DJA's system the idea is now "in the clear"
They might be able to put the art into "the clear" by nefarious means,
but they still don't get an exclusive right to it. They have to compete
with everyone else who wants to make money from its distribution, as
well as those who will, legally, just copy it for free.
Things covered by copyright (books, art, performances, film, etc.) are
much different than things covered by patent. For the most part,
something which is covered by copyright (a movie DVD) is more easily
copyable than something covered by a patent (a high density digital
recording medium).
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~DJA.
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