They (Disney, etc) might be okay with that for the first year or two, but
then they'd just lobby to have the tax removed.
>i was actually talking to someone the other day about a similar but
>different idea -- a tax on extending copyrights that increases each year.
>
>this isn't necessarily ideal, but it seems interesting since corporations
>(Disney etc.) just pay for not allowing their works to fall into the public
>domain and they can decide how much that IP is worth to them (it could
>start really small and increase exponentially as the copyright gets
>older)....thus eliminating the current trend of continually extending ALL
>copyrights. the politicians should go for it since it creates more revenue
>for the perpetual war (and shouldn't the corporations be the ones to pay),
>and material that has little commercial value can go into the public domain
>rather quickly.
>
>philo
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