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“Net loss for society” is where I believe copyright term limits for fiction are not needed. There is no limit to imagination. Disney is more than able to make Mickey Mouse a societal good BECAUSE only Disney can make Mickey Mouse.
Meanwhile, Mighty Mouse can be created by someone else. Ratatouille is still created about a talking Mouse. Fivel is still created. There is no limit to Mouse story making just because only Disney gets to make Mickey Mouse.
Nobody gets to own “boy meets girl” or “feuding families have kids that fall in love” such that Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story both get to exist.
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