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Re:Negotiators Lose Last Chance to Salvage the TPP by Caving... by droopyEyelids on Thursday February 05, 2015 @10:02AM (#9003525)
That brings up a fun idea. Why not have 'intellectual property tax' along with the yearly expiration.

That would solve the orphaned works issue- an orphaned work would quickly return to the public domain after falling behind on tax.

It'd also give creators of non-orphaned work the impetus to let go of their copyright.

And it might be possible to scale the tax by some factor that would give 'Big Content' a bigger incentive to let go, while levying a nominal cost on individuals that would function more as a tripwire for orphaned works than a financial burden.

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Re:Negotiators Lose Last Chance to Salvage the TPP by Caving... by Fuxy on Thursday February 05, 2015 @10:22AM (#9003629)
You know what would encourage big content to let go of works? A tax that increases every year that copyrighted work is kept under copyright.

That way if it's not valuable to them they will let it go instead of hoarding it all forever.

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