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If the tax is 10% of value, won’t it always be worth renewing as when it gets less valuable the tax goes down towards 0?
by rileymat2 5y ago
If the tax is 10% of value, won’t it always be worth renewing as when it gets less valuable the tax goes down towards 0?
- zdw 5y agoAdd in a minimum processing fee of $20, or a minimum valuation. The point is to make the cost of retaining a copyright over time non-zero and subject to tax, so people aren't incentivized to retain copyright on everything for no cost.
- rileymat2 5y agoMaybe, but it seems like these kind of things mutate into protection rackets for the big guys to get all benefit out of the system. By requiring a minimum for protection. Works at first then they shift the laws and make it legally complicated and require scale.