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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Simpler (and it follows the current legal concepts) is - a property tax on copyrights. Corporations want to have perpetual copyright, then they have to pay to keep it every year. Don't pay and it gets seized by the government, and put into the public domain.
The cost of running this would come from the copyright tax itself. . . .
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That certainly would be an amusing way to hoist the IP crowd on their own petard. But it does concede the theory that copyright and patents are property rather than being the simple government granted monopolies that they are. A dangerous legal step.