What’s entering the public domain on January 1
After an initial period of a few years 7 or 14 sounded good to the US founding fathers), Copyright holders should declare the value of their copyright, and have to pay an escalating fee based on that value (1% per year for the first 10 years, 2% per year for the next 10 years etc) as a tax.<p>If anyone wants to put the work in the public domain, they simply have to pay the value the company declared.<p>Disney could declare Star Wars is worth $5b, as it’s 40 years old they’d have to pay say $150m a year tax to deny the rights to the public.<p>If they declared it to be worth $50m to save on that tax, then netflix could pay for it to go public domain.