<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/10/31 Richard Stallman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rms@gnu.org">rms@gnu.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im"> Is a lot MORE good but who is the creator? who will be supported?<br>
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</div>If you mean that as a practical question, I am sure a good practical<br>
answer can be found.<br>
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In my country,<br>
for example, government uses about 0,5% of all taxes to support culture, as<br>
well arts.<br>
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</div>How much total money is that? We could calculate how many artists<br>
it could support.<br></blockquote><div><br>In Brazil, indeed, is planned for 2011 3% (R$ 1,18 billions) of budget (about 694 million dolars per year) to culture. This is devided into cultural government programs. Brazil have about 190 million habitants.<br>
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Would you object to paying 0.5% more, if that replaces some of what we<br>
now pay in other ways through the wasteful copyright system?<br></blockquote><div><br>Perhaps, if flat rate replace copyright monopoly, probably is more useful use the money to support cultural programs in general than copyright industry. If copyright run together this new tax, I don't know a reason to support this tax. In Brazil people are going to jail by copyright law, this do not happen in USA, for example. So, I think is priority in Brazil, first, the decriminalization of copyright infringement, not impose a new tax to people.<br>
<br>Probably, a software, for example, into the public domain have the 3 liberties of free software, or not? For example, you can share, you can modified, you can distribute modified copies of "Romeo and Juliet" from Shakespeare. Except in case of copyright get in the way and you can stumble on it.<span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en"><span style="" title=""><br>
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