Jon Prins' Tumblog or whatever

Copyright should be shorter in duration, more balanced, more comprehensible, and normatively closer to what members of the public think that it means or should mean.

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Reforming Copyright Is Possible - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education (via infoneer-pulse)

I’ve said it before - copyright registration should happen every four years, and cost $2^n to register, where n is the number of times it’s been renewed. This makes initial copyright nearly free, long-term copyright possible albeit expensive, and a much needed source of revenue for, say, patent oversight. This also reduces the number of orphaned works (as each time it’s renewed, the ownership status is confirmed). And by registering, with a full copy of the work, once it is out of copyright it can be made available digitally for free to anyone who wants it. 

As an alternative, of course, to initiatives like Creative Commons - of which I am also a big fan.

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