Post-copyright: Digital Cash and Compulsory Licensing? (was Re: [Slashdot] Stories for 2003-09-17)

Wed Sep 17 08:08:05 PDT 2003

from the old-wine-in-new-bottles dept.

Cheers,
RAH
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At 11:24 AM +0000 9/17/03, slashdot at slashdot.org wrote:
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>| 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               |
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>[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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>Discuss this story at:
>    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=03/09/16/188259
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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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