‘Coyote vs. Acme,’ once abandoned as a tax write-off by Warner Bros., grosses $100 million globally ahead of digital release.

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    13 days ago

    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

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      12 days ago

      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.

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        12 days ago

        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.

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      13 days ago

      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

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        11 days ago

        Probably just read the title and had no idea what really happened. And also doesn’t understand anything.

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          11 days ago

          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!