[pp.int.general] cultural flatrate: PP position?

[Christian]

Reinier Bakels wrote:
>> I don't believe that we need artist that can live from creating art.
>> Artist existed long before copyright was invented, even before money
>> was invented, and we'll have artists and culture anyway. But if their
>> business model is obsolete and inviable and cannot be sustented by
>> their own merits, then that business must change or die. Because it is
>> the business that will die, and not art creation.
>>
>> And yeah, just like Reinier told you, if you don't agree with this,
>> you are against the ideas of all the Pirate Parties and you may better
>> join the record maffia and don't bother me here. become an
>> "intellectual property" lawyer and get VERY rich.
>>
> It starts with the basic problem that the authors of HTML pages are also
> entitled a copyright compensation. 

If they register each html page at the according rightholders
association - why not? Is a html less worth than a poem?


> Likewise, all pruducers of "user provided content" are entitled to
> receive a copyright compensation. 

See above: If they register their content.

> Sorry for the cliché. There is no place anymore for traditional
> copyright. 

Yeah. We need a better one. But not "we don't neet it anymore":

Christian