Quote:
Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Frankly, I have a harsh answer to long copyrights...TAXES! You want copyright forever, then you have to pay taxes on it every year, whether you get any money out of it or not. The longer you hold it, the higher they go. We tax land, income, estates, ect. It's about time copyright got is a** taxed off... you don't pay, into the public domain it goes...
|
Oooh, I *like* that. If you keep it away from the public; you pay the public for that right.
Free for the first X years; re-reg for small fee for Y more years; after that, $Z per year per copyright. Even if it's just $10-20 per year. Individual authors could easily keep copyrights for their whole lives if they cared too; Disney, however, can pay for every song (twice--once for music & once for lyrics), every spool of film, every script, every master disc, every comic book and cartoon remix. Every sketchbook it wants to keep restricted. Every memobook full of story outlines.