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Re:What will enter the public domain in 2022 by coredog64 on Thursday December 02, 2021 @09:07PM (#29425794)
Wouldn’t it be easier to use a simpler mathematical formula? First renewal is fee^2. Second is fee^3, etc. Balance the fee and the term, but eventually you’ll hit a point where the renewal fee is a trillion dollars. If Disney wants to pay off the national debt to keep copyright on “Steamboat Willy” I’m not going to complain.

That avoids the income reporting aspect and allows people to make straightforward time-based predictions on when something enters the public domain.

Re:What will enter the public domain in 2022 by jedberg on Thursday December 02, 2021 @11:03PM (#29426493)
I worry that any fixed fee pushes out small publishers in favor of large ones. Disney can afford any fee you put that a lot of small publishers can't.
Re:What will enter the public domain in 2022 by peeters on Thursday December 02, 2021 @11:51PM (#29426741)
> First renewal is fee^2. Second is fee^3, etc

What's a cubic dollar?