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Originally Posted by leebase
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".
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Disney has done so in the full knowledge that the copyright will eventually run out. (assuming of course they can't buy enough politicians to change the deal after it was done and to the detriment of one party over the other).
I don't see how simply enforcing what is essentially a contract both parties have freely entered into is "unfair". Particularly in light of the oft repeated argument that there is nothing wrong with contracts that take rights from authors and give them to corporations because "no one forced the author to sign the contract".
I think it would be unfair to reform a contract after it has been entered into just so one party can benefit at the expense of the other. Besides "because I say it is so", I have yet to see any argument why that would not be "unfair" or, indeed, why it would be a good thing.