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This doesn't prove that Disney hasn't benefited enormously from extended copyright terms. Their stock growth is huge since '88, but it's impossible to say how m

This doesn't prove that Disney hasn't benefited enormously from extended copyright terms. Their stock growth is huge since '88, but it's impossible to say how much of that growth would have occurred without their copyright [0]. We can speculate, but it's hard to even imagine how Disney would be different today without certain copyrights. That's why I was looking for a comparable media empire internationally. [0] https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:DIS https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:DIS

icebraining 11y ago
Of course Disney benefited enormously from extended copyright. But what it does show is that long copyright terms are neither necessary nor sufficient for a Disney to appear and become successful, since the US at that time didn't have them. What I don't understand is what finding a comparable media empire internationally would give you, since most of the world has the same copyright terms as the US, and so it wouldn't be helpful to judge the results of different terms.