Canadian Songwriters Propose Collective Licensing

aboivin writes "The Songwriters association of Canada has put forward a proposition for collective licensing of music for personal use. The Right to Equitable Remuneration for Music File Sharing would legalize sharing of a copy of a copyrighted musical work without motive of financial gain, for a monthly fee of $5.00 applied to all Canadian internet connections, which would be distributed to creators and rights holders. From the proposal: 'File sharing is both a revolution in music distribution and a very positive phenomenon. The volunteer efforts of millions of music fans creates a much greater choice of repertoire for consumers while allowing songs — both new and old, well known and obscure — to be heard. All that's needed to fulfill this revolution in distribution is a way for Creators and rights holders to be paid.'"

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Re:Interesting concept

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You've made it pretty clear that you don't understand public goods.

You've made it pretty clear you don't understand consequences of public goods being delivered in POLITICAL way, and consequences of private goods delivery done in MARKET way.

There are critical differences between those two ways. To make long story short, political way doesn't work (iron law of oligarchy, nepotism, rent seeking, corruption, etc make for pretty grim and poisonous social mixture), on top of being totally contrary to liberty, free choice of individual and ultimately tyrannical.

Moral arguments don't matter to collectivists like you which are inherently demoralized, so I'm using arguments focused on social utility, but everyone else, please notice the immoral overhead that politics imposes on practical organization of "public" goods.