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Posted by Bill Steele on 04/24/06 18:40
In article <444CE2F7.2F12@succeeds.com>,
"nu-monet v8.0" <nothing@succeeds.com> wrote:
> This is why I propose, and hope others will advocate, a change in
> copyright law to make it more like, of all things, US mining law.
>
> That is, in mining, about anyone can stake a claim anywhere, but
> they must improve that claim and show a profit on an annual basis
> or they lose their claim.
>
> In the case of copyright law, this would mean that copyright
> protection would only continue for a product that is sold in
> retail public sale each and every year for a particular minimum
> net profit.
Disney would still go on forever. All they need is a guy in a Mickey
suit at Disneyland to maintain their claim.
My proposal to change copyright law is to require that writers be
compensated directly for every public performance, in proportion to the
gate. This would allow a return to the old business model -- before
recording was invented -- where musicians played and people paid them.
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