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Seein this idea that corporations should have different copyright terms than writers and I gotta say that doesn\u2019t seem like like an effective answer, with contracts who \u201cowns\u201d can be seperated from who benefits.\u00a0 Actually not sure if novel writers actually \u201cown\u201c their copyrights or have merely have a right to income derived from them from their publisher.

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

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So a company, but not a \u201clarge\u201d company, right.

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To bring this back to Matt Yglesias, once he tweeted that by setting up such a corporate shell for his Substack he was finally fulfilling his father’s vision of what it meant to be a real writer, and I’ll be damned if that wasn’t Freudian kidding-on-the-square

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