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Old 10-01-2009, 10:09 AM   #68
bill_mchale
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
If corporations could not hold copyrights, where would be the incentive to make movies? "Blockbuster" movies are so astronomically expensive, costing hundreds of millions of $ to make, that they are really outside the budget of any but the wealthiest of individuals.
Is that supposed to be an argument for or against denying corporations the power to own copyrights? .

Actually, I believe that the movies still might get made. But rather than having corporations hold them, they might be held by the director or the producer who would then have to pay the investors (i.e., the production company) most of the profits.

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