From 0a43daee75a2dc23223a300c6ca7f9c80ef47e96 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Petter Reinholdtsen Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 10:27:02 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Another requirement. --- blog/data/2012-11-17-copyright-taxing.txt | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/blog/data/2012-11-17-copyright-taxing.txt b/blog/data/2012-11-17-copyright-taxing.txt index 4d7b938a52..7937ca247c 100644 --- a/blog/data/2012-11-17-copyright-taxing.txt +++ b/blog/data/2012-11-17-copyright-taxing.txt @@ -37,7 +37,11 @@ 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.

+hard operation with todays copyright law. To ensure that copyright +holders keep the database up-to-date, it would have to become a +requirement to be able to collect money for granting access to +copyrighted works that the work is listed in the database with the +correct right holder.

If copyright causes copyright holders to have to pay more taxes, they will have a small incentive to "disown" their copyright, and let -- 2.47.2