B) Create an alternative parallel system to the copyright / patent system, where companies, individuals, and other legal entities can choose to pay a fixed percentage (say 10% or 20%, perhaps depending on the industry) of their profit / income after expenses to a government fund, granting them total immunity from claims of infringement of copyright and patent law.
Creators of works and ideas then file a return of how much work went into the ideas they are selling, and a good faith description of what other works they used to produce their works. This goes into a formula to distribute the money from the government fund - taking into account both the utility of ideas and the effort required to create them.
Creators of works and ideas then file a return of how much work went into the ideas they are selling, and a good faith description of what other works they used to produce their works. This goes into a formula to distribute the money from the government fund - taking into account both the utility of ideas and the effort required to create them.