Cabel SasserIt should be 100% required by law that anytime a piece of media gets "tax deleted", the corporation is required to first upload a copy to the Internet Archive.
Sam Gross@cabel at least the library of congress’ media archive!
Саша Морс, here we go again...@cabel I mean, the whole fucking system that incentivizes corporations to do this is abhorrent and should be razed to the ground, then salted for good measure.
But I also like your idea.
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@cabel Formally released into the public domain as well. If we, the tax payer, are essentially footing the bill then we should have to rights to it
Codhisattva@cabel like a corporate loss is a fast track to the public domain. You lose ownership and give the work to the public.
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Michael@cabel Ooh, I love this idea.
Maximilian Overdraft, Esq.I'm sure someone's AI startup will buy the whole media archive and scrape it down to the foundation.
Leta_Darnell@cabel "Let's make a thing everyone wants and then take it away before they can have it, so we get money for taking it away."
lonely extrovert@cabel sorry, what does "tax deleted" mean?
amd@rothko movie studios will occasionally delete entire, completed films to take the tax write off of having the expenses of the movie without the profits.
This happened recently with the Coyote vs Acme film and the Batgirl film.
@rothko “tax deleted” means a fully finished project is held from release and “deleted” (buried) so that no one can ever see it — just so a corporation can deduct the full cost of the project from their taxes to post stronger numbers.
jakedowns@cabel i support this mission
Wonkish@cabel This feels like something you should propose to Elizabeth Warren’s office
Dexter@cabel I'd go even further. I'd say if it gets tax deleted it should automatically become public domain. You shouldn't be able to wash yourself of liability for something while retaining rights to it.
bignoseHeck, we used to have a better way:
You get no protection on your work unless it's registered at the copyright office, and a prerequisite of that is they keep a copy for the public, in case yours goes away.
Jef Poskanzer@cabel At the very least the IRS needs a copy to verify that you don't try to release it anyway, which would be tax fraud.
James@cabel what do you mean by tax deleted ? I couldn't find anything when I searched
@james (I wish mastodon surfaced replies better! Not your fault!) https://social.panic.com/@cabel/112016915678536825
Cabel Sasser (@[email protected])
@[email protected] “tax deleted” means a fully finished project is held from release and “deleted” (buried) so that no one can ever see it — just so a corporation can deduct the full cost of the project from their taxes to post stronger numbers.
@cabel ahh thank you, appreciate that!
JP@cabel And a donation to the Internet Archive equal to 1% of the value the company saved 😁
WagesOf@cabel if they're going to claim it as a loss they have to actually lose it.
Just like if you pull something from streaming to not pay royalties you have to release the license, not just put it on a shelf and claim it's gone.
@WagesOf Yes this would be a brand new law, with full backing of the IRS
@cabel I'd be happy if they simply enforced the existing regulations about how losses work.
The companies are inducing a virtual loss by hiding assets while retaining them.
It's like erasing the address of a warehouse full of iron ingots and then claiming that because you chose to forget you have the iron (while retaining the right to remember it at any time) you're due a tax write off.
2xfo@cabel
I wanted to know what "tax deleted" means so i googled it and i was happy to see the top result was a Mastodon page
I was surprised to see it was you replying elsewhere in this thread though 😄
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