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Originally Posted by leebase
I will do something rare. I will concede the point...I was wrong. Little Mermaid indeed proves that Disney will spend millions making a movie based on a public Domain story, even in these modern times of easy copying.
I do not, however, concede that Hans Christian Anderson’s heirs deserved no money from Disney. I think that the value to society is fulfilled by the creation of an original story and there is no need for a time limited copywrite.
It’s an opinion. YMMV
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I think you may not have sufficiently considered bgalbrecht's last point. Unlimited copyright would be a magnet for copyright trolls. The ability to tell new stories would be greatly restricted by the need for new stories to bear no relationship to the vast body of existing, copyright, work.
Consider the music copyright cases recently, where the resemblance has been on a few bars out of an entire song. Look at what would happen with a few centuries of copyright fiction for trolls to mine and claim that new stories are derivative works.