On Sunday 24 April 2005 01:08 pm, FoulDragon@aol.com wrote:
> My belief is that we need to merely subsidize content creators.  Offer
> an incentive (we'll buy your copyright for $xxx to void it), and a
> stick (IP licence income from non-state-subsidy approaches is taxed at
> 500 percent).

I disagree with this idea.  Copyright and patent are government granted 
monopolies.  I, as a taxpayer, already "subsidize" a content creator by 
granting them a monopoly for a "limited time."  If the content creator 
cannot then create a successful business model on that monopoly, that's 
his problem.

IMO the solution would include some sort of truely "limited time" instead 
of this 90 years after the death of the creator stuff.

Alan
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