30 Jun 2024, 01:43

I do ask if you weaken the act to the extent some of your amendments do essentially making it harder to enforce copyright claims, or making it less universal in Europe by making it opt in or harder to fight copyright trolling by removing provisions how you expect small businesses or authors in the arts to protect their intellectual property. It is important this is as universal as possible through making it opt out with a presumption of membership that cost is not burdened on individual copyright holders so that authors and writers who don't have massive resources can afford to use the copyright system to protect against bigger corporations or richer people stealing their ideas wholesale and it is important to protect the idea of IP to make sure innovation is worthwhile.

Some of your ammendments would undermine this strongly. Furthermore its important to not many libertarians actually agree with a limited copyright law which this is to protect ideas for a period of time and prevent abuse by bigger companies and organisations. Many libertarians do believe in some form of state regulation to protect property rights , intellectual property included. The idea libertarians believe in an economic free for all with no rules is a falsehood in many cases. I honestly believe some of your amendments would undermine the act so much as to make it functionally useless unless your are lucky enough to be as rich as me and be able to afford high fees for the "value lost to the public ". If this is judged to be in the millions or billions would they then be required to pay millions or billions a year to keep the copyright? If so that would make it impossible to effectively use the copyright system at all. I would also ask how would you come up with a fair objective way of judging the value without requiring many bureaucrats to determine the " value lost to the public"? This is after all meant to reduce paperwork by allowing a filing of a copyright for a cheap cost if you are the legitimate first author of the idea in one place rather than having to file in 20+ different systems just to protect the copyright over your work. If the author could be on the hook for millions just to hold a copyright then the average person on the street could not access the system leaving it to be a system only for big corporations to protect their stories while being able to steal from smaller creators.

James Mizrachi-Roscoe, Councillour for United Duchies