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Post-copyright: Digital Cash and Compulsory Licensing?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the dream-on dept.

gojomo writes "AaronSw offers a compelling idea: use anonymous transferable digital cash to allocate the monies collected for creators in a compulsory licensing scheme, to avoid some of the potential problems outlined by other compulsory critiques. LawMeme calls it a "Proto Whuffie" but expects fake artists to sign up for the loot. I might call it "voucher socialism" -- but that's not necessarily a bad thing."

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  1. Am I the only one... by The+Human+Cow · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...Who things that "Proto Whuffie" would make a great party drug?

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  2. Nonononono... by Soko · · Score: 4, Funny

    I stopped reading right here:

    If you've listened to one Britney Spears song day and night for the past month and nothing else...

    Any human being that would subject themselves to this kind of torture can't be anything but clinically insane. As such, his plan has to be almost as looney. :P

    Soko

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    "Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm." - Anonymous