Re: Re: Exclusive jurisdiction -- remand or dismiss?

From: Joseph Pietro Riolo <josephpietrojeungriolo[_at_]gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 17:00:01 -0400


On 10/17/05, Pam Chestek (chestek.com) <pamela[_at_]chestek.com> wrote: 

>

> You are also ignoring that registration is a significant financial burden
> for artists creating unique works. To be entitled to the full remedies
> available, an artist would have to register each and every work. If you
> sell a unique work for $15, $100 or $200, it's simply cost-prohibitive.

Then, sell unique works at higher price. If no one in market wants to buy these unique works, that tells something about the quality and value of these unique works.

The cost of monopoly that authors impose on the public - at least 70 years of control over the uses of their works - is far greater than the cost of registration that they have to pay. The cost for registration for a literary work is merely $30.00. That is about 43 cents for each year for 70 years!

Joseph Pietro Riolo
<josephpietrojeungriolo[_at_]gmail.com>
<riolo[_at_]voicenet.com>

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Public domain notice: I put all of my expressions in this post in the public domain. Received on Wed Oct 19 2005 - 01:00:01 GMT

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