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Re:From where I left by smolder on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @05:04AM (#42386394)
Put another way, many people have contributed to Bezos' bottom line for free. The restriction is annoying but there should probably be a better way to get a piece of that huge value for everyone who generates it, mostly thanklessly. Some kind of OSS tax proportional to profitability would make some sense, as annoying as that might be to implement or deal with.
Re:From where I left by Towaway69 on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @07:31AM (#42387084)
This idea is similar to what some countries do around music: artist register with an government identity that collects copyright fees from venues that play music - live or otherwise (bars, clubs, theatres included).

The government identity then distributes those monies to the artists according to playlists collected from said venues.

It works for big acts, for small acts the overhead tends to consume the payouts.