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May be you've noticed a dysfunctional anti-trust situation too.

• basch 8y ago
  They bought a bunch of old movies, how is that anti-trust. THeres a limit to how many old movies you can own? Disney isnt stopping people from making movies by buying the old Fox catalog?
  • dmitriid 8y ago
    By buying and owing the rights to it in what is essentially perpetuity. Look at actions of the company as a whole, not at one action in isolation. I don't think it's a coincidence that this purchase comes at the same time when the first works released in 1923 are finally entering public domain [1] [1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/04/copywritten-so-dont-copy-me/557420/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/04/copyw...
    • basch 8y ago
      Buying changes to intellectual property ownership laws isnt antitrust tho, its regulatory capture.