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Re:For First Time in More Than 20 Years, Copyrighted Works W... by scrooched_moose on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @08:05PM (#18721634)
Yeah, the only way it remotely works in theory is if the fee is some percentage of the revenue you earned off the IP in the last year.

Practically it's an unenforceable nightmare that is so prone to "Hollywood accounting" type gimmicks that doesn't work at all.

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Re:For First Time in More Than 20 Years, Copyrighted Works W... by philwelch on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @11:54PM (#18722603)
Don't make it a percentage of revenue, just make it an exponentially increasing amount, and the copyright holder will bail out when it's no longer profitable for them.
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Re:For First Time in More Than 20 Years, Copyrighted Works W... by earenndil on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @09:56PM (#18722148)
I don't think making it a % works. If that % is less than 100, then you never have any incentive not to pay it.
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Re:For First Time in More Than 20 Years, Copyrighted Works W... by Bonooru on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @10:15PM (#18722218)
Revenue != Profit. There are costs associated with making money off of the IP. You'd stop when those costs and the cost of renewing are greater than the revenue taken in.
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Re:For First Time in More Than 20 Years, Copyrighted Works W... by jacques_chester on Thursday December 20, 2018 @12:34AM (#18722733)
Not a percentage. A dollar amount, increasing faster than inflation.
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