Negotiators Lose Last Chance to Salvage the TPP by Caving on Copyright Extension

Re:Negotiators Lose Last Chance to Salvage the TPP by Caving... by dunham on Thursday February 05, 2015 @02:02PM (#9005133)

He's proposing $7 _total_ for the first 15 years. ($1 for the first five, $2 for the next five, and $4 for the final five years.)

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Re:Negotiators Lose Last Chance to Salvage the TPP by Caving... by msandford on Thursday February 05, 2015 @03:03PM (#9005603)

Graph the two of them and get back to me. I'm talking about the slope. I do realize that the total sum is basically trivial either way. But slope is an actual mathematical term and I used it as such.

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Re:Negotiators Lose Last Chance to Salvage the TPP by Caving... by lacksconfidence on Thursday February 05, 2015 @10:00PM (#9007549)

Then why should the initial slope be lower? If the total sum is trivial it seems it shouldn't matter

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Re:Negotiators Lose Last Chance to Salvage the TPP by Caving... by msandford on Saturday February 07, 2015 @09:06AM (#9013988)

To pre-emptively deny the reform opponent (read "Disney lackey") the opportunity to scare monger people by trotting out the "it's exponential!!" argument.

If it's a flat fee for the first 15 or 30 years then it should take a lot of wind out of their sails.

If people start doing the math and saying "but at 60 years this is completely insane!" then just ask for a list of affected stakeholders that this would bankrupt. I suspect the only people on the list would be Disney.

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