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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
If you really want to solve the "copyright problem", tax copyrights. Why not? We tax all other forms of real property...
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That's an interesting idea, but it's hard to see how it would work in practice, both in terms of what would be taxed (the holding of copyrights, or the income generated from them) and how much.
The income is already taxed by other means, and, at least in jurisdictions where the Berne Convention applies, copyright is automatic and does not require registration, so taxing holding of copyrights seems problematic. How do the authorities determine what copyrights you hold? Also, everything you or I have created, every letter we've written, every photo we've taken etc., is copyright. Should we be taxed on them?
/JB