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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
What category does copyright fall in? Clearly the type that government ownership records are kept in. Which makes it reasonable to tax.
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I'm sure it would often more difficult to prove one's case without such records but that doesn't mean that works that have no 'government ownership record' are in the public domain. If for some inexplicable reason someone found and decided to publish my super-secret diary I could go after them for copyright violations even though said diary's existence and author has not been officially recorded.
The fact that copyright also applies to private writings is actually the one reason I'd be a bit concerned about a relatively short copyright term with no exceptions.