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One way of managing it could be to have the company that owns the IP assign a value to it, and tax based on that value. Then require that the IP is effectively
by IanCal 10y ago
One way of managing it could be to have the company that owns the IP assign a value to it, and tax based on that value.
Then require that the IP is effectively always for sale, so must be sold if anyone wants to buy it.
- EvanAnderson 10y agoSo-called "intellectual property" is already valued on balance sheets, too. I don't know what relationship to reality that balance sheet representation actually has, though. I'm on the fence about the "value" of the copyrighted work factoring-in to the equation. On first blush I tend to think the "cost" to the public of withholding rights from the public domain is high regardless of the "value" of the copyrighted work to its "owner". A "valueless" copyrighted work should be equally (and oppressively) expensive to withhold (for a long duration) from the public domain as a "high value" work. The point isn't the "value" of the copyrighted work, it's the term of "protection".