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Originally Posted by leebase
Jesus.....the lengths. Everybody benefits from what came before. But nobody comes to the farmer to confiscate his fields, to the tradesman to confiscate his bank account, to the teacher to confiscate her house. How come an author's works are deemed “owned by society”?
You don’t deserve Mickey Mouse any more than you deserve your neighbor's car.
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And why does your neighbor deserve a car that a car company spent all that time, effort and IP into manufacturing. Your neighbor should be paying the car company licensing fees every time he or she turns the car on by your logic.
Once again, you use faulty definitions. Copyright isn't property, it's a government granted monopoly of limited duration. It doesn't become property just because you think that it ought to be property.
As far as arguing who deserves, Walt Disney died in 1966, some 54 years ago, back when copyright duration in the US was 28+28. No one currently working at Disney had a thing to do with making Micky Mouse what it is, they merely profit because of what someone else did long ago.
With all your assertions, you still haven't provided any justifications of why copyright should be considered property. You simply assert, it's property and the Disney Corporation puts lots of effort into advertising their movies and theme parks so they should own it forever and a day. Naturally, many companies put lots of effort into advertising their wares, but so what makes Disney so special that they should be the exception?