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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Copyright isn't property right, it's simply a government granted time limited monopoly on copying with rights and obligations on both sides.
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With "Life + whatever is needed to keep Mickey Mouse out of the public domain", it's no longer actually limited, and thus part of the revolt from the buying public.
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Originally Posted by issybird
^I want to amend the above to say I'm not including cartels or illegal price-fixing in my rubric, I'm focusing on the basic transaction.
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I strongly recommend a daily read of Techdirt if you are truly interested in any sorts of rights issues that affect the digital domain. That will show you that all the big media conglomerates are part of cartels, and they engage in price fixing every day. They just don't get caught at it very often.