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Originally Posted by leebase
Just the opposite. The creation of intellectual property has unleashed an amazing amount of good for society.
In the case of Disney and other major businesses...there still ongoing investment and THAT investment is why the properties have so much current value. Value that rightly goes to the those creating the value.
Time to end all time limits on fiction copyrights.
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You are way, way over stating the ongoing investment for most properties. While you keep pointing to Disney (which might be the only company that you could make that claim for), for the most part, they don't advertise and invest in the old titles, such as Snow White. As I pointed out earlier, LOTR was mostly fan supported from the initial publishing up through the initial Peter Jackson LOTR movie. The Tolkien estate does pretty much zero advertisement or ongoing investment into the property.
Frankly, if we had a two tier copyright system, one for Disney and one for everyone else, the eternal copyright chant would mostly disappear.