Counter to a bill currently before the US Congress, foreseeing an excuse for copyright infringers from significant damages if they can prove that they made a "diligent effort" to find the copyright owner, Lawrence Lessig suggests in an article published in the New York Times that:
- the copyright owner, after a 14-year period, should be required to register a work with an approved, privately managed and competitive registry and pay $1
- this rule should not apply to foreign works, or to work created between 1978 and today
- photographs and other difficult-to-register works should be subject to this rule depending on the technology available, both to develop simple registration databases and to make research handy and reliable.
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What is particularly encouraging is that he's not someone who has lived exclusively within the competition policy world/bubble, but rath... -
M. Peitz, here . [Disagree, of course]
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The DSA delivers, the DSA delivers not Sitting in a city park, looking at an impressive number of daisies, I am finally listening to the ver...
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OECD, here. Tbd today, Trento U.
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S. Cohen, T. Davies here . A sort of licence fee ("mechanisms of compensation") is also the result we suggested coming from a ...
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Govinfosecurity.com, here .
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Japan Fair Trade Commission, here.
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ARD1, here.
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The Capitol Forum, here .
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