Overall, I think this is fair and workable. It's similar to a proposal that Lessig (I think) made where once a work is created, the copyright holder has 10 years to register it. Failure to register means that the work falls into the public domain. Registration is only $1. Every 10 years, the copyright has to be renewed.
So works that are no longer commercially viable quickly fall into the Public Domain.
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Originally Posted by nekokami
Commercial Distribution: Commercial distribution is defined as the ready availability of a work for all fair use by any purchaser.
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Which means that almost all DVDs will not be "commercially distributed" because region encoding violates Fair Use.
IHMO, removal of region encoding is a good thing. But the MPAA won't like this at all.
I'd like to see a similar version of this for Patent reform: use it or license it in a reasonable amount of time, or you lose the patent. It would greatly reduce the effectiveness of Patent Trolls.