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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
In terms of the examples, I think you're missing the extremity of Elfwreck's $2000 registration. It would likely bankrupt creative professionals who try to keep up. How does what amounts to a "Copyright Tax" actually encourage people to create?
There is no question in my mind that automatic copyright is beneficial for and helps promote the arts, and that registration just makes it harder to do the work.
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My extreme reg costs presumes automatic registration for an initial period. 26 years was enough to encourage a lot of works being made; I don't expect a lot of authors would give up on writing if they thought they'd only get two and a half decades of control of their works.
And I'm also open to the idea of $20 reg after that initial period; any required registration is going to mean most works wind up in the public domain. The $2000 is a matter of penalizing keeping works away from the public--it means that authors, artist & photographers would have to figure out which of their works are financially viable for another 20-40 years, and pay for the right to have a monopoly on exploitation. Photographers would have the option of registering pictures in a collection rather than individually; they could certainly register "best photos taken in the 90's" as a set, the way authors are free to register "collected short stories" instead of each one singly.