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Originally Posted by shalym
You understand that the vast majority of grandchildren of business owners have to work to maintain the business, right? What do the grandchildren of famous authors have to do to maintain their ancestor's copyright? If they had to, at the very least, pay a fee to renew the copyright every few years, I wouldn't have an issue with it.
Shari
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Disney's company is still putting huge work on Mickey Mouse. Nobody is watching the original Steamboat Willy cartoons. They are going to Disneyworld and buying Mickey Mouse ears and shirts etc. Just like the businesses Rockerfeller started.
And it’s the value of those ongoing characters today that people would want to reap the rewards from. If Mickey Mouse had stopped at Steamboat Willy, nobody would be interested as there would be no demand.