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Originally Posted by seajewel
a fee to whom? the public domain isn't meant to benefit publishing companies, as far as i know, so a fee to the publisher isn't going to do it. higher taxes? it seems silly to me to say that the time at which your work passes into the public domain should be negotiable by a fee.
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The fee would be paid well ahead of the time it goes into public domain, not at the last minute. Also, if possible, the copyright be applied differently among paperback and electronic.
The fee could be used by publishers, governments, or whomever to promote education and reading among children. The fee would not be put in the pockets of the publishing companies, but rather used as a way to promote and educate.
How does the process work now as far as copyright goes, as far as registering the material? What is the fee, if any, and where does that money go to and are copyrights applied equally to paperback and electronic versions of the same book?
Hopefully, Steve Jordan can shed some light on to this for me.