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The Mondrian estate... don't get me started on that one.
How does paying money to Mondrian's great great great great grandchildren enhance society?
The Mondrian estate... don't get me started on that one.
Surely the issue is estates (in this sense) in general. Did anyone in the estate actually know the guy whose legacy they're supposed to be protecting? How does paying money to Mondrian's great great great great grandchildren enhance society?
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IP is next to impossible to appraise, unlike land. It’s pretty easy to ballpark what a lot of house or office building is worth based on comparables that sold recently. IP doesn’t sell that much and comparisons are harder.
This is actually a solved problem. It is self-assessed valuation with compulsory sale at declared value, known as the Harberger Tax.
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"Up to death" would provide a perverse incentive for people to kill creators in order to liberate something from copyright.
Maybe 100 years after birth instead.
We’d need something like a minimum of 20 years or up to their 100th birthday or something.
Archive link: https://archive.ph/GxEPr
There is also this version:
https://web.archive.org/web/20260301183248/https://copyright...
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It's rather incongruous that you register intellectual property for very little - and have states enforcing your rights for free - while a piece of land pays property taxes.
The state isn’t enforcing your rights for free - you still have to hire a lawyer and pay legal expenses yourself. The state is just providing the infrastructure where you are allowed to make a claim, if you choose to do so. This is like complaining that businesses get to use roads for free - ignoring that we all pay taxes already and built this infrastructure for enabling exactly that purpose.
Mondrian died decades ago. He is not creating any more. Copyright of his works is not serving us any more.
Copyright should have ended when the balance between encouraging his creation and encouraging others to create based on his works was reached. i.e. About 5 years after he made the piece.
Fuck the copyright parasites whining about this.
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This is actually a solved problem. It is self-assessed valuation with compulsory sale at declared value, known as the Harberger Tax.
This is only a solution if you think it's fair to have a regular ownership tax on top of the tax paid when purchasing / selling something.
This whole thread is about how many countries with land taxes don't similarly tax other assets like IP. Whether you think it's fair or not is another question - the blocker isn't fair valuation.
As always, copyright is a supressor of creativity, not an enabler. Copyright terms should be 10-20 years max, or up to death of an author. Even current regime is ridiculous.
5 years is therefore a very reasonable copyright term limit, that will benefit almost all creators and benefit - not penalise - the society that lets them have copyright in the first place, i.e. us.
Fuck the copyright cartels.