Patent royalties

=== Pay yourself royalties ===
http://alterslash.org/#article-3600401
Copyrights (and patents) harm everyone except those monied interests you mention at the end of your post.
I could stop right there, with that observation, but there's more to be added.
These tax schemes with shell corporations in Ireland and the Cayman Islands only work because "client" corporations in America pay the shell corporations all of their profit. The mechanism they use to justify any number and every number they wish to use? Royalties. Copyright and patent royalties. The tax fraud being perpetuated relies on the ability to pay a bogus "licensing fee" to the shell corporation. This number is anything the perpetrator wants it to be, "negotiated" on the spot to whatever is most convenient to enable the fraud. And it's legal.
Any significant blow to copyright or patents runs the risk of ruining the game, hence copyright and patents must be protected and extended at all costs, population and culture be damned.
Not to put too fine a point on it but... "Follow the money."
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