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by koolba 2058 days ago
That might have been me. The idea is to have an exponentially growing fee paid to maintain a copyright after some fixed initial term.

If Disney really wants to keep Mickey out of the public domain, they could do so by paying ever increasing fees into the public coffers. It might be worth it to keep their handle on things for $1B a year. And if not, then the public gets it.