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Re:European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batt... by hilbert42 on Friday June 16, 2023 @11:11PM (#36366892)
"If you can't see the glaring problems there then there's no hope for you...."

Correct, but easily solved if the tax were to be based on license sales numbers and income. Small/poor license owners would pay almost nothing whereas the big players would pay plenty.

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Re:European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batt... by DropInIn on Saturday June 17, 2023 @02:23AM (#36367819)
How does that resolve the issue of IP squatting that is in question?

If there's no income the fee is negligible, permitting the rights holder to squat on them for next to nothing and prevent the use of the otherwise abandoned IP by the public....

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Re:European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batt... by hilbert42 on Monday June 19, 2023 @03:04AM (#36388136)
That's a separate and in some circumstances a serious problem.

For instance, an art gallery takes a photo of an artwork that's out of copyright for reference/insurance and (a) doesn't allow photos in the gallery and (b) the photo which is copyright isn't on sale (as it wasn't intended for that purpose). So the out of copyright artwork is locked up from reproduction.

Variations on this theme are a problem with galleries and museums worldwide.

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