Making Piracy Obsolete Through the Payright System

• Policy Proposal: Make Piracy Obsolete: The Payright System. Primary Author: Erik Zoltán, Massachusetts Pirate PartyContributing Editor: Zacqary Adam Green, New York Pirate Party

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"This document contains a specific policy proposal designed to address the concerns of the Pirate Party regarding copyright, patent and trademark law. At the same time, it is designed to address the concerns of inventors, artists, musicians, filmmakers and businesses regarding the Pirate Party's ideas about open culture. My goal here is to show how we will end piracy forever by making it obsolete - we will ensure that creators and inventors are paid for the free and open exchange of their work and inventions. This will not prevent downloading, nor will it impose fees - it is a comprehensive way to allow open culture and ensure that the creators are paid for their work. In brief, the concept is to create an open culture where inventions and works can be exchanged freely and without limitation, while also guaranteeing that innovators and content creators will be paid a fair price for their works and inventions. It provides an open framework where anyone can make money by selling anyone else's works and inventions, and yet at thesame time where the creator of those works or inventions will receive a kind of payment that compares very favorably with the sort of payment that they could expect today under the “closed culture” of intellectual property monopoly. The policy allows anyone to exchange works and inventions non-commercially for free,at the same time that it contains funding provisions which would guarantee that content creators and innovators would receive ample payment for non-commercial use of their work. (This may sound contradictory, because the conventional wisdom is that these two things can’t possibly coexist.) At the end of this document I will discuss possible objections to this proposal, legal challenges, privacy issues and how we plan to implement these ideas." (http://www.scribd.com/doc/113709604/Make-Piracy-Obsolete-The-Payright-System)