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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
But you're advocating for Disney to have the right to use your stories however they like, without contacting you at all about it. Copyright is what keeps them from scouring the web for good stories & scripts, and using them with impunity.
What makes you think that if copyright went away, Disney would be less powerful? Oh, they'd lose control of their works--but that's nothing compared to the amount of money they could make if they didn't have to pay anyone for use of their art.
And there'd still be plenty of artists willing to work for Disney, with work-for-hire contracts that forbid them from using their own materials for profit. There are plenty of people who do this now; there aren't going to be less of them if copyright law goes away.
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I'm not sure I advocated that. I think I actually said that's why I don't release my stuff under PD at the moment, because of companies like Disney and Fox and their ilk and their continuing rape of creativity.
Disney made its fortune riding the back of the PD and then selling a sickening Stepford Wives kind of Americana to children. I find them thoroughly, thoroughly evil, and they probably wouldn't go away if copyright was abandoned, but at least they'd be on an equal footing with everyone else for once. No more lobbyist in their pockets, no more extensions, no more special-favours.