Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net>: > On Friday 08 June 2018 13:34:44 Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >> PS IMO copyright laws should be abolished altogether. At the very >> least one should pay for copyright protection. One €1 for the first >> year, €2 for the second, €4 for the third and so on exponentially. > > I rather like that idea. Unforch, who would be in charge of keeping the > books uptodate? The USTPO? Of course that would expand another guvmnt > agencies payroll x10, and its a waste of taxpayer dollars since Albert > retired anyway.
That exponential system would pay for itself. At the moment nobody pays the government to enforce copyrights. > But then Disney started buying senators and congressmen, and we now > have this asinine lifetime +70 years just to keep Mickey Mouse and > Company's (oh, and don't forget a widow named Cher) income rolling in. In my scheme, €15/$15 would buy you four years of exclusive rights to your creation. If it turns profitable, an extra $1,008 would give you six more years (10 years total -- not too bad). And if you hit a jackpot, $1,000,000 for twenty years of exclusive rights shouldn't be too much to ask. And speaking of Disney, for a mere $1,000,000,000 it could get a whopping 30 years of exclusive rights to Mickey Mouse! Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
