Porter

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  • Porter  If it really is Intellectual "Property" - the owners of the rights to the "Property" should be taxed based on an assessed value. We tax everything else - land, cars, homes as property. The continual assertion by corporations about protecting their Intellectual Property involves the use of the government to protect it. The corporations should therefore pay their share. It would then become a self balancing system. Property which becomes very valuable will have a high assessment value - and thus a heavy tax. Much like old people who are forced to move from their family homes due to an inability to pay the property taxes on it - corporations might need then to sell at a lower value, or set free - pieces of "Intellectual Property" in order to avoid paying taxes on it. This isn't just about music - anything copyrightable, patentable, etc.
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    •   Is a music “tax” paid to ISPs the answer?
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  •   mathewi  That's an interesting idea. If the record labels want to charge fees for access, perhaps they should be paying a kind of property tax. It would certainly force content owners to confront their devotion to the "intellectual property" idea.
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