Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea?
AmidFuror@fedia.io 12 hours agoThose fees won't pay for the cost of registering all these copyrights. Currently the government doesn't need to get involved until there's a suit, and then they get court fees. Everybody registering their first 2 to 5 years of copyright would be a massive burden.
Also, at every 5 years you're only up to a few hundred bucks at 40 years. Definitely needs to be on the lower side.
Steve@communick.news 10 hours ago
Registering doesn’t need to cost much. It could be largely automated.
And the government will get plenty of money later on from the big ticket copyrights.
And the government isn’t supposed to be profitable in itself any way. So that doesn’t matter much.