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Contributor KickingRaven on the Copyright Consultation category

Litigation doesn't change the behaviour  
Written by KickingRaven the 14 Aug 09 at 19:01. Global category: Copyright Consultation. New
People file share. There is little empathy for the companies who say they are losing vast sums of revenue due to it. Litigation of ordinary citizens for vast sums of money in damages does nothing to change the apathy, if anything it causes a greater degree of it. The data that companies use to demonstrate that file sharing hurts them is flawed. People want to share, it is in our nature.
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Solution #1: Don't make it illegal
Written by KickingRaven the 14 Aug 09 at 19:01.
If the attitude towards file sharing could be changed to a more positive one then there are monetization opportunities. As an example, if a person shares content with people and that results in a sale then the sharer would receive some form of compensation, say credits via a redeemable code that the purchaser enters. Change the perception of the activity and recognize the potential benefits the change can represent.
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Solution #2: Legal copyright protections that encourage monetization
Written by Tamir the 17 Aug 09 at 23:57.
Along with an attitude shift, maybe it would be useful to produce some form of legislative incentives in the coming copyright bill that would encourage content creators to develop monetization schemes?

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Need an End Product  
Written by Brogar the 27 Jul 09 at 16:18. Global category: Copyright Consultation. New
The end product of these discussions should be decided early. Are we going to submit a proposal? A model act? A policy paper? A cartoon?
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Solution #1: Policy Paper
Written by Brogar the 27 Jul 09 at 16:18.
We could submit a simple policy paper outlining all of the topics they asked that we cover and the ideas and solutions that were proposed here.
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Solution #2: Model Copyright Act
Written by Brogar the 27 Jul 09 at 16:58.
We might submit an actual act. This would be a significant amount of work and it much less accessible to non-law types.
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Solution #3: Report of ideastorm issues/solutions if there's a wide range of opinions
Written by kaplanmyrth the 14 Aug 09 at 16:17.
If this site gets a wide range of opinions that makes it hard to distill into a single policy vision, then it may still be useful to submit the results of this ideastorm as a report or even a dataset for further analysis.

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