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UK Royalty Group Wants Piracy “Cap and Trade” ISP Levy (zeropaid.com)
2 points by awa on July 15, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


I will buy into a proposal like this when it comes with a commitment to using a specific methodology - one biased in favor of maximizing revenue to small content creators rather than high-profile ones who already derive economic benefit from celebrity.

However, I do think this is a step in the right direction and worth reading, because it eschews the usual 'OMG pirates' for a more pragmatic economic analysis, cautiously endorses the economic benefits of 'fair use' and non-commercial reuse, and abandons the adversarial approach in pursuit of a more stable equilibrium.

http://www.prsformusic.com/creators/news/research/Documents/...




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