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Originally Posted by latepaul
It appears the rights owner gets the license fees paid for use. They are probably only going to have a small proportion of rights holders coming forward so the thing is not going to be a net cost to the taxpayer.
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I agree that they rights owners will only get the fee paid for the actual use, but that wasn't what I was asking. I was asking who
pays the fee - the person using the work, or (in effect) the taxpayer?
I also agree that only a very small number of rights owners are going to come forward. And, even then, I suspect the amount they get paid will be fairly trivial. But I don't see how that leads to your conclusion that there "is not going to be a net cost to the taxpayer".
But I don't want to make a big issue of this point. I only raised it out of curiosity.
Mike