Todd Walton wrote:
As for me, I'm generally anti-IP, but specifically I can't find
anything egregiously wrong with copyright. If I produce a creative
work, put blood sweat and tears into it, why should somebody profit
from redistributing it without an obligation to pay me for my original
work?
The main issue I have with copyright is that it doesn't deliver any
reverse pain.
My solution to the copyright dilemma is to grant it for 20 years after
initial publication to the original producer without charge and without
filing. After that, an increasing scale of payments is required to
renew it. Say, double the price every 10 years. No upper limit.
This way, everybody gets to decide what a copyright is worth.
This avoids travesties like "Tie a Yellow Ribbon" because it would have
required a payment in 1994 (or so).
Disney can pay for its copyrights ad infinitum. Everything else drops
into public domain in a timely fashion.
-a
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