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Originally Posted by leebase
Asked and answered. When you buy a house....it’s yours. The money in your bank account is yours. Your boat is yours. The gold coins are yours.
If you start a company it’s yours. It’s not like Coca Cola becomes society's after a number of years. You can make a carbonated beverage....but you can’t make Coke.
You can write a story but you can’t write a Harry Potter book.
If you want to make money from Disney...buy shares in the company. If you work for Disney your wages don’t time out. What you are paid is yours forever...and when you die, your kids' forever...until they die and then it goes to their heirs. All the while that money can earn interest. Or...if you bought Disney stock, might earn dividends as well as accrue in value.
Contracts can change who owns the IP from creative effort....but the IP exists either way and shouldn’t evaporate any more than your fields will evaporate.
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No, it's not answered. When a carpenter makes a chair, the chair may or may not be his, depending on if he is self employed or not. The right to keep anyone else from making copies of that chair certainly is not his. When an author writes a manuscript, the right to sell that manuscript to whomever he can is his. The right to keep anyone else from copying that book once it's released to the public isn't his. Rather the public, in the form of the government, grants him a limited time monopoly on making copies of that book.
You keep using the same assertions. Disney should own the rights to Snow White and the Seven Dwarves forever because you say they should. Someone who want to either make copies of the movie or make a sequel to the movie is stealing from Disney because you say they are stealing from Disney. It's no more persuasive than the CEO of Disney declaring that anyone who doesn't watch commercials while watching the Disney Channel is stealing from Disney. Just because you say it, doesn't make it so. Your assertion isn't even coherent since you seem to think that Disney using public domain stories as the basis to make movies is good. Anyone else using Disney movies as the basis of movies or books is bad. So, apparently some animals are more equal than others.