<h3>Entries from November 2012.</h3>
+ <div class="entry">
+ <div class="title">
+ <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_isn_t_the_value_of_copyright_taxed_.html">Why isn't the value of copyright taxed?</a>
+ </div>
+ <div class="date">
+ 17th November 2012
+ </div>
+ <div class="body">
+ <p>While working on a
+<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">Norwegian
+translation of the Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig</a> (76% done),
+which cover the problems with todays copyright law and how it stifles
+creativity, one idea occurred to me. The idea is to get the tax
+office to help make more works enter the public domain and also help
+make it easier to clear rights for using copyrighted works.</p>
+
+<p>I mentioned this idea briefly during Yesterdays
+<a href="http://www.farmann.no/2012/11/14/john-perry-barlow-in-oslo-friday-nov-16
+-15-30-19-00/">presentation
+from John Perry Barlow</a>, and concluded that it was best to put it
+in writing for a wider audience. The idea is not really based on the
+argument that copyrighted works are "intellectual property", as the
+core requirement is that copyrighted work have value for the copyright
+holder and the tax office like to collect their share from any value
+controlled by the citizens in a country. I'm sharing the idea here to
+let others consider it and perhaps shoot it down with a fresh set of
+arguments.</p>
+
+<p>Most valuables are taxed by the government. At least here in
+Norway, the amount of money you have, the value of our land property,
+the value of your house, the value of your car, the value of our
+stocks and other valuables are all added together. If the tax value
+of these values exceed your debt, you have to pay the tax office some
+taxes for these values. And copyrighted work have value. It have
+value for the rights holder, who can earn money selling access to the
+work. But it is not included in the tax calculations? Why not?</p>
+
+<p>If the government want to tax copyrighted works, it would want to
+maintain a database of all the copyrighted works and who are the
+rights holders for a given works, to be able to associate the works
+value to the right citizen or company for tax purposes. If such
+database exist, it will become a lot easier to find out who to talk to
+for clearing permissions to use a copyrighted work, which is a very
+hard operation with todays copyright law.</p>
+
+<p>If copyright causes copyright holders to have to pay more taxes,
+they will have a small incentive to "disown" their copyright, and let
+the work enter the public domain. For works with several right holders
+one of the right holders could state (and get it registered in the
+database) that she do not need to be consulted when clearing rights to
+use the work in question and thus will not get any income from that
+work. Stating this would have to be impossible to revert and stop the
+tax office from adding the value of that work to the given citizens
+tax calculation. I assume the copyright law would stay the same,
+allowing creators to pick a license of their choosing, and also
+allowing them to put their work directly in the public domain. The
+existence of such database will make it even easier to clear rights,
+and if the right holders listed in the database is taxed, this system
+would increase the amount of works that enter the public domain.</p>
+
+<p>The effect would be that the tax office help to make it easier to
+get rights to use the works that have not yet entered the public
+domain and help to get more work into the public domain and .</p>
+
+<p>Why have such taxing not happened yet? I am sure the tax office
+would like to tax copyrighted work values if they could.</p>
+
+ </div>
+ <div class="tags">
+
+
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freeculture">freeculture</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett</a>.
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+
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="padding"></div>
+
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<div class="title">
<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/BankID_skal_ikke_gi_tilgang_til_min_personsensitive_informasjon.html">BankID skal ikke gi tilgang til min personsensitive informasjon</a>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/10/">October (17)</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/11/">November (6)</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/11/">November (7)</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/drivstoffpriser">drivstoffpriser (4)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english (159)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english (160)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/fiksgatami">fiksgatami (20)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/fildeling">fildeling (12)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freeculture">freeculture (8)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freeculture">freeculture (9)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/frikanalen">frikanalen (9)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/open311">open311 (2)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett (37)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett (38)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern (57)</a></li>
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