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Old 05-03-2020, 09:56 AM   #175
shalym
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When the mouse's copyright time is nearly up, Disney will just buy more [politicians]. Problem solved.
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Sadly this is the heart of the problem. They also have been buying up all the competing studios. Cultural Imperialism. It's like one of those dystopian SF "House" novels, but without the troopers or spaceships.
This is why I chose "fixed length, renewable indefinitely". It keeps the mouse house happy, so that they don't keep trying to get the law changed, and it should stop orphaned works.

It does require that there be a searchable database of registered copyrights, but come on now...that's hardly a burden to maintain, and searching it could/should be accessible from the copyright office's website.

Shari

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