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The real reason to incorporate surely is the limit on liability and the ability to treat assets and actions of the project as distinct from your own.

Accidentally infringe a copyright it is probably 1000x harder to cause the owner of a company grief tan it would be to devistate the life of a sole-trader.



I don’t think a C-Corp will be much help here. Otherwise, you could start a streaming corp and accidentally publish Netflix shows. You’ll need an expensive lawyer to determine the limits of protection here.


Sounds like a job for BVI corp. no one can even find out who owns it.




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