I am just posting this to see if people agree or not, please post and
respond to me with your ideas. Please be free to post it else where.
rhoine@no-spam
Copyright law needs to be changed to make it a charged service. If a company
wants to sue for copyright infringement they should have to pay through the
nose for the copyright to exist. It should be set in different priorities.
A copyright committee should be set up and that this committee should have
little to no law enforcement unless it proteins to copy written material.
It should be written that if copyright infringement does occur that they
should have options and base those options to charges. I have outlined my
idea below and will be posting it to the Internet.
1.. (Free or Small Fee) Government only prosecutions, and the copyright
provider have to pay for all cost related to indictments, court cost, etc.
and bare no financial (such is law suits, etc.) responsibility to the person
that is indighted. A copyright committee should also be paid a fee to
enforce this upon attempt to prosecute. Neither the complaint, nor the
convicted should profit from this.
2.. (Should be a limited charge of $1000 to $5000.00 per year, every five
years for every published
article, song, movie, music note, picture, whatever etc. that is previsly
copy written (grand fathered) of this charge and future documents software
etc. and should be related to keystrokes or by the word or byte.) This is
not to be a conviction, this is only to pay monetary damages to the person
or company that have suffered monetary losses that is to be only be settled
by a copyright committee to decide these damages suffered on a case by case
basis, this is to ensure that the correct entity is being prosecuted, as
well is that companies will not be monopolizing the market contrary to
greater benefit of all. After a determined length of time that royalties and
further protection would have to be paid to the copyright committee as well,
as determined on a case by case basis.
3.. To put the two together for indictment and monetary damage there
should be a charge plus a royalty to be paid to a copyright committee. This
would be an initial charge of $100,000 or better per each copyright granted.
And not enforceable until after the 1st year (this is to include all above
articles) after the copyright has been obtained. It is the responsibility
for the song, book, movie, software companies to pay the royalties for such
and it should be the right of the person being prosecuted to ensure that
every penny has been paid, before any prosecution can precede. This will
keep major corporations safe from other major corporations from extended
lawsuits etc.also this will ensure that taxes are being paid, the artist and
all involved in the production. This will also insure that their or no
fribulous law suits.
I am not a lawyer and don't play one on television, however is electronic
commerce proceeds the lawsuits for copyrights will be only grow and sooner
or later the copyright law will be overturned on a loop-hole. This will
also put the money in the correct pockets of the people that actually
provide the material provided and stop some of the ridiculous lawsuits and
indictments in the world. This would also make the companies involved more
money because they can offer copyright protection. this would also benefit
the insurance industry so that policies can be written to pay for copyright
infringement. The above would hold the real people that suffer the damages
rather than teenagers playing on a computer. We have to make electronic
commerce safer, more secure, and more available to all. By prosecuting
teenagers is not the way to do this, it will detour parents providing
computers to children. You have to think that a child would not be breaking
the law unless he was given the tools to do it.