Re:Copyright Industry Calls For Broad Search Engine Censorship
by moonchrome on Saturday January 28, 2012 @11:59AM
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>Require registration of works with the copyright office
Yaay - more bureaucracy and competitive advantages for the established business that can afford the fees/process. Kill open-source copyright claim validity in the process ?
>Assess an annual fee proportional to revenue earned from the copyrighted work
Yaay - taxes on top of taxes !
Re:Copyright Industry Calls For Broad Search Engine Censorship
by dajobe on Saturday January 28, 2012 @01:28PM
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I partially agree with a slight modification. I write a lot of free software / open source software. This relies on copyright of course, to enforce the freedoms. I don't want an onerous registration environment, but if it was "copyright terms to 4 years after last publication without registration" but registration with a fee after that. So if I continue to make the software, it gets the copyright and if I get bored, it turns into PD - and that's fine.
* Reduce copyright terms to 4 years, non-renewable
* Require registration of works with the copyright office
* Assess an annual fee proportional to revenue earned from the copyrighted work
* Provide for stiff penalties for asserting copyright over works you do not hold the copyright to.
* Affirm that public domain works can never be copyrighted.