X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/0a43daee75a2dc23223a300c6ca7f9c80ef47e96..15d904c5714f98cafe35ca269c6d881f843f76ce:/blog/index.rss diff --git a/blog/index.rss b/blog/index.rss index 895d851faf..65a9db791b 100644 --- a/blog/index.rss +++ b/blog/index.rss @@ -6,6 +6,72 @@ http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/ + + Why isn't the value of copyright taxed? + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_isn_t_the_value_of_copyright_taxed_.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_isn_t_the_value_of_copyright_taxed_.html + Sat, 17 Nov 2012 11:20:00 +0100 + <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> + + + BankID skal ikke gi tilgang til min personsensitive informasjon http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/BankID_skal_ikke_gi_tilgang_til_min_personsensitive_informasjon.html @@ -629,33 +695,5 @@ transforming our society to a huge Panopticom on our own.</p> - - 57 kommuner omfavner nå FiksGataMi - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/57_kommuner_omfavner_n__FiksGataMi.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/57_kommuner_omfavner_n__FiksGataMi.html - Wed, 17 Oct 2012 23:40:00 +0200 - <p><a href="http://maps.google.com/?q=http://www.nuug.no/prosjekt/fiksgatami/fiksgatami-municipalities-201210.kml"><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-10-17-fiksgatami.png"></a></p> - -<p>For noen dager siden omfavnet nok en kommune NUUGs -<a href="http://www.fiksgatami.no/">FiksGataMi</a>. Med 57 kommuner -som lenker til FiksGataMi fra sine hjemmesider er "markedsandelen" -13% (av 429 kommuner). Sist ut er Våler kommune, som slår -følge med kommunene Askim, Askøy, Audnedal, Aure, Balestrand, Bærum, -Eide, Farsund, Flekkefjord, Folldal, Gran, Grue, Hadsel, Halden, -Halsa, Hamar, Hobøl, Holtålen, Hægebostad, Høyanger, Kongsberg, -Kristiansund, Kvinesdal, Kviteseid, Levanger, Lindesnes, Luster, -Lyngdal, Løten, Mandal, Marnardal, Moss, Namsos, Nissedal, Nordreisa, -Randaberg, Rindal, Sel, Sirdal, Skiptvet, Sortland, Spydeberg, -Stjørdal, Stord, Søgne, Sør-Odal, Tolga, Trysil, Tynset, Tysvær, -Ullensvang Herad, Vennesla, Verdal, Vågan, Vågå og Åseral. Oppdatert -liste og kart er tilgjengelig fra -<a href="http://wiki.nuug.no/grupper/fiksgatami/positivemottakere">NUUGs -wiki</a>. - -<p>I snitt rapporteres det nå via FiksGataMi ca. 110 meldinger fra -innbyggerne i uka om feil på offentlig infrastruktur.</p> - - -