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Google's Project 10 to the 100th |
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Tuesday, 30 September 2008 |
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Google's Project 10 to the 100th
My submission:
Make the internet a library where all content is available for anyone. Once a new product, book, movie, song, T.V. Program, whatever makes it's initial profits it becomes available for free in the library a short period later, like say one year. Each country taxes it people a very small percentage, which gets distributed to the artist as royalty as long as the artist is still creating. Once a content creator retires, stops producing for a period of time, or passes away the product becomes public domain for others to build on. The artist still retains copyright while the artist is still producing.
All countries share their content at no cost. This allows global knowledge transfer.
Companies who deliver the content still make profits from advertising.
Make dial up free for the poor, which could be a government program so they have access to these items, just like the library now.
Pirating and black markets wouldn't be viable so countries could save money and resources for more severe, real, crime. This would save for both the police organizations as well as the court systems.
Easily implemented as most content is on the internet already so it would basically be law changes.
Duplicate content taking up space on internet servers could be less and content delivery could be focused on saving bandwidth as well as serving quality. Pirating takes a lot of space,a lot of bandwidth, and quality can be a problem, which causes a need for duplicate content spread across the net.
There would no longer be the need for home users to hoard content because it would be on demand 24/7 meaning less equipment in the home, which is good for the environment. TiVo like solutions could take their service online and axe the hardware. People will still want everything in order waiting for them to watch so this wouldn't destroy companies and jobs if the company is smart enough to change and innovate themselves.
There are so many benefits to this:
The artists still get paid and have incentive to keep creating.
Shorter hold on the content allows for new perspectives, innovation, and new ideas to be built off old content.
Everyone has access to books, documentaries, t.v. Programming, movies from around the world which is a major educational advantage.
Police could save money and time by not policing content for greedy corporations and free up the court systems for real criminal trial. |
