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5th March 2021

Post reblogged from Deep Learning State Machine with 28 notes

collapsedsquid:

Seein this idea that corporations should have different copyright terms than writers and I gotta say that doesn’t seem like like an effective answer, with contracts who “owns” can be seperated from who benefits.  Actually not sure if novel writers actually “own“ their copyrights or have merely have a right to income derived from them from their publisher.

For tax and accounting reasons American novelists and screenwriters often assign their rights to a personal corporation that then sells/contracts them.

  1. flakmaniak reblogged this from argumate and added:
    I usually just favor a 30-year max regardless of owner/creator, since I don’t want to have to answer rules questions...
  2. rustingbridges said: I mean they actually do, as it is, copyrights to a single author have a different term, as it is, they had this idea, they’re just both excessively long
  3. storywonker reblogged this from collapsedsquid and added:
    Novel writers generally do retain their copyright, they simply licence them to publishers. Such licences expiring, and...
  4. collapsedsquid reblogged this from argumate and added:
    More evidence for the need that all income be taxed at the same rate, to screw over churchill
  5. argumate reblogged this from kontextmaschine and added:
    obligatory mention of Churchill’s tax dodge in which he sold his “notes” to a newspaper for a high fee and then wrote...
  6. kontextmaschine reblogged this from collapsedsquid and added:
    To bring this back to Matt Yglesias, once he tweeted that by setting up such a corporate shell for his Substack he was...