from the old-wine-in-new-bottles dept. Cheers, RAH ------- At 11:24 AM +0000 9/17/03, slashdot@slashdot.org wrote:

+--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Post-copyright: Digital Cash and Compulsory Licensing? | | from the dream-on dept. | | posted by michael on Tuesday September 16, @15:16 (money) | | http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/16/188259 | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+

[0]gojomo writes "AaronSw offers a compelling idea: [1]use anonymous transferable digital cash to allocate the monies collected for creators in a compulsory licensing scheme, to avoid some of the potential problems [2]outlined [3]by [4]other [5]compulsory [6]critiques. LawMeme calls it a "[7]Proto Whuffie" but expects fake artists to sign up for the loot. I might call it "[8]voucher socialism" -- but that's not necessarily a bad thing."

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Links: 0. http://gojomo.blogspot.com 1. http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001036 2. http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001016 3. http://epeus.blogspot.com/2003_06_01_epeus_archive.html#105643720859547400 4. http://www.utdallas.edu/~liebowit/intprop/complpff.pdf 5. http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1190 6. http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~fredrik/research/papers/EvaluatingDRM.html 7. http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1208&mode=&order=0&thold=0 8. http://gojomo.blogspot.com/#106373171922274440

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