Re:France: All your books are belong to us
by davweb on Wednesday February 29, 2012 @10:49AM
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The "collective management organisations" set up to manage this will be paying royalties to authors, something they wouldn't get if their books were made public domain.
Similarly, an author can assert their rights and ask for a republished book to be removed from sale, something which would not be possible if works were made public domains.
I'm not saying this a good idea, just that this is why they're not just removing the copyright from the works.
Re:France: All your books are belong to us
by davidw on Wednesday February 29, 2012 @11:14AM
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> The "collective management organisations" set up to manage this will be paying royalties to authors, something they wouldn't get if their books were made public domain.
To me it looks like the incentives are not really in place for that.
1) If the authors are already present, registered, in touch, etc... they're already getting paid.
2) If the authors "can't be found", the big bureaucracy gets to keep the cash.
Italy has a 'collective management organization, the SIAE, and the thing is pretty much pure evil.
Re:France: All your books are belong to us
by bryanlarsen on Wednesday February 29, 2012 @11:56AM
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Remember their are also publishers in the mix. Hopefully all of the payments for out-of-print books are going to the authors only.
This is nothing but corruption, giving those select members of the quango a cash-cow at the expense of both the authors and society.
The article by the AFUL explains it well: http://aful.org/communiques/french-senate-proposes-to-legali...