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Originally Posted by calvin-c
@SteveEisenberg, I did say we were talking about new creations. I believe all the current exceptions are grandfathered, i.e. the current law doesn't apply to them.
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New books, old books, to go below Life + 50 means repudiating a treaty that almost all countries are signed onto. That would be a bad precedent.
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Originally Posted by BWinmill
Works intended for broadcast, exhibition, and publication should be registered for a nominal fee.
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As soon as one country adopts this fee scheme, then all the others (207 of them at last count) will feel they have to set up their own fee scheme in retaliation. For movie studios or Random House, the administrative details of paying hundreds of nominal fees may not be overwhelming. But indie authors will have a devil of a time with this.
I don't have a problem with saying that, in an ideal world, this or that is what copyright should be. Just don't think we can get to that ideal world from where we are today.