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Originally Posted by leebase
“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.
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No, no, no, no, no!
It's not just the lack of derivative works. Although that is also a loss to society.
With perpetual copyright, the entire societal contract about copyright is broken.
The whole of society works to protect copyright, including the courts and the legislature. People have to pay more for the creations because their production is a monopoly during their copyright period. This is an enormous amount of effort and money spent solely to ensure that creators get a reward for their creations.
So why does society do this? Spend all this money and effort for the benefit of a small number of creators?
So that society can be enriched by the creations. And that means that once the creator has been 'sufficiently' rewarded, the creation is allowed to be used by anyone - the monopoly ceases.