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		WalterBright on July 5, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Public Domain Movies A reasonable compromise copyright scheme is to simply require a registration for it to last beyond 20 years, along with a fee. That'll filter out the vast bulk of the garbage copyrights, as well as the stuff nobody knows who owns (likely including the owner).

vidarh on July 5, 2019 [–]

Tack onto that a fee that increases by a multiple for every 10 year extension or so, so that the older the work the more commercially successful it needs to be worth paying for ongoing protection of.

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