This is the opportunity to write a wish list
This is the opportunity to write a wish list
Posted Jan 10, 2026 14:27 UTC (Sat) by kleptog (subscriber, #1183)In reply to: This is the opportunity to write a wish list by Cyberax
Parent article: European Commission issues call for evidence on open source
> Radio stations solved that via mechanical rights. Each time a radio station plays a song, they pay a small fee to an organization that represents the collective rights of musicians. It then redistributes the fees as royalties.
Except in the US notably. But yes, that is one solution, generally with some statutory basis (mainly, radio stations don't need to ask permission). It would be awesome if something similar existed for movies/series so you wouldn't need to figure out which streaming service has which movie. But I digress.
> It's going to be more complicated for OpenSource, but perhaps something like this is the future.
I don't see that happening for software though. There are simply way more businesses using many more pieces of software than the number of radio stations. And music has a clearer definition of "released" and "ownership".
But who knows, we're just at the beginning of the process, who know where this will go.