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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
That's a perfect example of the damage that eternal copyright would do. You said it yourself, Dracula was based upon folklore passed down for centuries. In other words, Dracula was based on the public domain. Had copyright been eternal, Bram Stoker could never have created Dracula.
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Copyrighting the Three Little Pigs doesn't stop someone from using other animals in a different setting to relate a similar morality tale.