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The case is - and I repeat - society doesn’t own the fruits of the individuals labor, creativity, effort. Unlike with patents which deal in realms where there are only a limited number of solutions to a problem....fiction has no scarcity.
Society levies taxes to procure revenue to provide services. Whether via income or property tax. So society doesn’t need to take ownership away.
In the case of Disney and other large companies built on intellectual property...their properties have significant value because of ongoing and continuous investment. It’s not what Walt Disney did in making the first Steamboat Willie cartoon in the 30's that makes Mickey Mouse valuable today.
I would gladly concede all economically inactive intellectual properties become public domain...much in the way that Trademarks can become void if not used and defended.
This is not how things are...but how things SHOULD be.
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