Please help my this question!

The British historian Thomas Macaulay once remarked that copyright are "a tax readers".

Copyrights are a "tax" on readers in the sense that:

A. The government collects the tax progressively to promote fairness in the tax code

B. Securing a new copyright requires the payment of a fee tp the government the artist.

C. Copyrights limits of the supply of related creative work which results in higher prices.

D. The government explicitly adds a sale tax on creative works to cover the copyright.

Thank you!