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I completely agree that limited copyright has spawned the industries as they currently are. I am not suggesting limitless copyright for fiction will create anything better than what we have.
I am arguing based on private property ownership. Society has no right to confiscate my property. Taxes are the mechanism I advocate for society to get it's benefit from my property.
And while we DO have limited copyright and so we know we have successfully incentivized the wonderful set of industries we have.
We ALSO have unlimited copyright. We are bumping into the "big deal" properties that Disney has so far successfully lobbied in extending copyright. So we DON'T know what will happen when an intellectual property upon which large businesses are built go into public domain.
I'm not suggesting Disney will go out of business or stop investing. I'm suggesting that Disney has been continuously investing in those intellectual properties keeping them relevant and valuable. I think it's unfair to take that value away and give it to "society".
We don't with Trade Marks.
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