If you want to copyright a work, you pay $1 to the national copyright registry and submit a copy of the work for comparison purposes.
Each year you renew, the cost doubles. After ten years, this is only around $500, which is reasonable if you're making modest profit.
By year 25, it's around $16 million, and only worthwhile for the biggest properties.
This severely discourages copyright squatting and creates a self-financing regulatory body which can actually produce what is copywritten for comparison in lawsuits.
One idea I like is progressive copyright fees.
If you want to copyright a work, you pay $1 to the national copyright registry and submit a copy of the work for comparison purposes.
Each year you renew, the cost doubles. After ten years, this is only around $500, which is reasonable if you're making modest profit.
By year 25, it's around $16 million, and only worthwhile for the biggest properties.
This severely discourages copyright squatting and creates a self-financing regulatory body which can actually produce what is copywritten for comparison in lawsuits.
great idea. and where its self regulating like that its corruption resistant.