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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Are you asserting that a gold bar cannot be property?
Or will you admit that some property is not taxed?
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Last I checked, an asset was usually considered property. . .
Let me be clear, property that a government has to maintain ownership records on, is usually taxed. (There are some jurisdictions in the US that don't tax real estate.) Property that the government does not maintain records on is rarely taxed, as it is difficult to impossible to prove ownership without massively intrusive searches.
What category does copyright fall in? Clearly the type that government ownership records are kept in. Which makes it reasonable to tax.
In addition, it tends to deprive the copyright holder the tendency extend copyright forever. It changes the equation from holding onto something that maybe, someday, be worth something of value, because the cost of holding it is zero, to determining whether or not it is worth the ongoing cost to maintain the copyright. A self correcting solution to keep copyright as a wasting asset. . .