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It's obvious that companies are going to try to resist losing their copyrights. If it's worth enough, they will offer large amounts of money to protect them. Why not change the whole copyright thing so that it protects the author for x amount of time. Then after x time passes, it will cost the author (or the holder of the copyright) y dollars to renew the copyright for the next year. Each year the amount to renew the copyright will increase exponentially (say double the previous years cost)
An example, x = 30 yrs, y = $10,000. After 30yrs, if this copyright is worth more than $10,000 then the author will pay to have it renewed. The govt. is happy because now they begin to tap into another big pocket, and the author is happy because he gets to keep receiving royalties. The second year, the author will have to pay $20,000 to renew the copyright. After 10yrs, the author would have to pay 10,240,000. Or about 1,000 times the initial cost.
By using this process, the company will be weaned off the income it has been generating. Throughout this process, the company will look to other means of supporting itself. So new ideas will be spawned as its dependence on old ideas fades. This will also bring in a system of checks and balances since the govt. will want its portion of the profit. The only problem is that as the company is being weaned off, the govt. begins to depend on it's income, but I figure that it would be much more difficult to change the exponential increase for the renewal of the copyright compared to extending a date. If the exponential equations are changed then the government would make less money at other areas, so over all, the government's income wouldn't change much. The govt. would not push back the date it gets to begin taping companies profits. I think it would decrease the time so that it could get its hands into the pockets of the big companies. But the govt. would not let the time get too small because then the company doesn't have the time to make a profit for the govt. to leach.
Maybe we would have an easier case passing a bill like this through congress than trying to fight the big companies pockets in a court case.
The only good use I can see is to proceed it with a smaller wave. If timed right, the 'man made wave' will retract from land as the tsunami is coming in. This would probably do more damage on the area both waves cover, but will spare property further in from the shore. This would also leave less time for evacuation. So weigh the damage.
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It's obvious that companies are going to try to resist losing their copyrights. If it's worth enough, they will offer large amounts of money to protect them. Why not change the whole copyright thing so that it protects the author for x amount of time. Then after x time passes, it will cost the author (or the holder of the copyright) y dollars to renew the copyright for the next year. Each year the amount to renew the copyright will increase exponentially (say double the previous years cost)
An example, x = 30 yrs, y = $10,000. After 30yrs, if this copyright is worth more than $10,000 then the author will pay to have it renewed. The govt. is happy because now they begin to tap into another big pocket, and the author is happy because he gets to keep receiving royalties. The second year, the author will have to pay $20,000 to renew the copyright. After 10yrs, the author would have to pay 10,240,000. Or about 1,000 times the initial cost.
By using this process, the company will be weaned off the income it has been generating. Throughout this process, the company will look to other means of supporting itself. So new ideas will be spawned as its dependence on old ideas fades. This will also bring in a system of checks and balances since the govt. will want its portion of the profit. The only problem is that as the company is being weaned off, the govt. begins to depend on it's income, but I figure that it would be much more difficult to change the exponential increase for the renewal of the copyright compared to extending a date. If the exponential equations are changed then the government would make less money at other areas, so over all, the government's income wouldn't change much. The govt. would not push back the date it gets to begin taping companies profits. I think it would decrease the time so that it could get its hands into the pockets of the big companies. But the govt. would not let the time get too small because then the company doesn't have the time to make a profit for the govt. to leach.
Maybe we would have an easier case passing a bill like this through congress than trying to fight the big companies pockets in a court case.
The only good use I can see is to proceed it with a smaller wave. If timed right, the 'man made wave' will retract from land as the tsunami is coming in. This would probably do more damage on the area both waves cover, but will spare property further in from the shore. This would also leave less time for evacuation. So weigh the damage.