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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
People pay taxes on their real (estate) property, in order to keep it, you pay to keep up your patent, why should copyright be tax exempt?
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A copyright tax, huh? Yeah... I can see that...
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Originally Posted by James Bryant
I would suggest that if a work has been published and is now out of print/unavailable there should be a right to make a copy, with a reasonable fixed fee owing to the copyright holder (if (s)he can be located).
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This sounds good, too, providing you could work out the method of getting the appropriate monies to the copyright holder from any book production source (like, say, a Kinkos, or the office in my house). Perhaps if the money was collected upon copying and sent (with the book data) to an organization (publisher, government, non-profit, etc) that would see to directing the money to the owner. And if the owner could not be located, the money would go to some other fund related to author compensation (or organizational support).