Re:What will enter the public domain in 2022
by necovek on Friday December 03, 2021 @08:24AM
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> Your cure is worse than the disease.
It wasn't my proposal. My original response to the GP comment was that I'd avoid registration and only introduce registration/renewal fees after a certain short (compared to existing duration) period, like 10 or 15 years.
> ..my smiling family...
On top of me agreeing that requiring registration when publishing sucks, hopefully privacy laws stop your family photo from ever being misused.
On the topic of tax havens, you are right: my bad for misrepresenting stuff.
I was just trying to point out that you receiving your income somewhere where your government can't see it (either in cash or in a foreign bank account: plenty of 'poor' people evade tax in this way, even service workers in the US) does not change your tax residency. IOW, residency rules are well defined, and they could apply equally to copyright-residency.
But since copyright registration should be, IMO, voluntary and only after an initial grace period where copyright protection is automatically assumed, residency matters only in avoiding registration/renewal "migration".
It wasn't my proposal. My original response to the GP comment was that I'd avoid registration and only introduce registration/renewal fees after a certain short (compared to existing duration) period, like 10 or 15 years.
> ..my smiling family...
On top of me agreeing that requiring registration when publishing sucks, hopefully privacy laws stop your family photo from ever being misused.
On the topic of tax havens, you are right: my bad for misrepresenting stuff.
I was just trying to point out that you receiving your income somewhere where your government can't see it (either in cash or in a foreign bank account: plenty of 'poor' people evade tax in this way, even service workers in the US) does not change your tax residency. IOW, residency rules are well defined, and they could apply equally to copyright-residency.
But since copyright registration should be, IMO, voluntary and only after an initial grace period where copyright protection is automatically assumed, residency matters only in avoiding registration/renewal "migration".