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A mandatory, current registry of copyrighted works will be needed before a system could be developed in which, like a stock market index, the nature of the work, the creator's popularity, and the passage's popularity determine a samples economic value range. Music, literary works, film, and video could be indexed, and copyright owners would register their works. The value of the works could be compared with the context of other works from artists based on usage, songwriting, and publishing credits and other variables. The precise price of a work may not be known, but a reasonable price range could be created. In the best system, the index concept would also accept ideas introduced by Creative Commons, Lisensa, or a sample clearance house. Such a concept is probably not under consideration by any of the leading copyright stakeholders, but returning to mandatory registration would alleviate some of our copyright system problems. An article by Tim Wu, a law professor at Columbia University, has called one copyright lawsuit winner a copyright troll. Mr. Wu offers links to an interview between George Clinton and Hank Shocklee in which Shocklee demonstrated repeatedly that creating derivative works is a unique art. Topics covered are reinstating of registration requirements and creating a reuse royalty market.
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