While I'm hardly anti-government, I'm not too confident about its fairness. Who would take care of doing all the work of calculating that? And what happens if an author can't be reached - who takes that money?
Here in Portugal we have two supposedly non-profit associations (one for authors, other for performers) who are legally responsible for receiving the fees whenever a e.g. TV channel replays an old episode and then distributing them to the members, and they seem extremely corrupt.
Personally, I think we don't need any of that. People pay anyway, including the so-called "pirates", and they'd pay more if it weren't for stupid restrictions, like Netflix and Spotify not being available in many countries.
Here in Portugal we have two supposedly non-profit associations (one for authors, other for performers) who are legally responsible for receiving the fees whenever a e.g. TV channel replays an old episode and then distributing them to the members, and they seem extremely corrupt.
Personally, I think we don't need any of that. People pay anyway, including the so-called "pirates", and they'd pay more if it weren't for stupid restrictions, like Netflix and Spotify not being available in many countries.