‘Coyote vs. Acme,’ once abandoned as a tax write-off by Warner Bros., grosses $100 million globally ahead of digital release.
‘Coyote vs. Acme,’ once abandoned as a tax write-off by Warner Bros., grosses $100 million globally ahead of digital release.
It got sold off, at a massive discount, to a different distributer who decided to put it in theaters. Your solution is to punish the people that took a risk on a movie that another studio decided (for bullshit reasons) wasn’t good enough to release.
No, my solution would mean this company could have just done it…
Along with any other company …
If you don’t know what “public domain” means, fucking ask someone if you can’t manage to look it up
Well you’re fucking pleasant.
It never ceases to amaze me how badly people understand copyright/IP and tax. This is a rare occasion with both at the same time, complimented by verbal abuse.
The above poster is clearly behaving like a dumbass but the reason so many people misunderstand those concepts has a lot to do with how contradictory the laws are to our intuitive notions of reasonableness and fairness.
Tell me you don’t understand what a tax write-off is without telling me you don’t understand what a tax write-off is
Probably just read the title and had no idea what really happened. And also doesn’t understand anything.
I mean my bet would always be that someone doesn’t understand tax write-offs. They’re consistently talked about in a way completely detached from reality!