An updated and revised version of the working paper by Prof. Pamela Samuelson and Research Fellow Tara Wheatland of the University of California Berkeley School of Law, on the subject of Copyright Act statutory damages, has been posted:
"Statutory Damages in Copyright Law: A Remedy in Need of Reform"
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Saturday, August 22, 2009
Updated and revised version of scholarly article by Samuelson & Wheatland posted today
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Rather than attempting to "reform" copyright law, I say tax copyrights. If, as copyright supporters say, copyrights are intellectual property than they should be paying taxes on any work they retain the rights to. If the work is no longer turning a profit, then the owner can submit the copyright to public domain.
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