Re:Wikimedia warns EU copyright reform threatens the ‘vibran...
by doh on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @08:04PM
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I think this is more business point discussion for a platform (how do you motivate your users to create) than for a government how to enforce that creators are not being ripped off by users and platforms.
The case you described is already covered (at least in US) by the Fair Use doctrine [0] and works, well, works ok. I don't think the government should consider the use case of copyrighted work.
My point was that ensuring people get paid is not what our end goal is. We should identify what our end goal should be and try to see if a different tactic might accomplish that goal better (with less collateral damage).
For example, people who create memes (the actual memes, not the images that later become memes) are motivated by social acknowledgement. Same goes for many Facebook posts.
Mandating payment systems is unlikely to motivate those types of content creation, and may in fact suppress many other types.
However, creating content based on social rewards (like most social media sites currently do) does help the creation of popular content.