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Any personal photos you and your family take are part of culture. Should they be public or do you get to decide? Much of culture is private. Poor people not

• takeda 7y ago
  That's not how it works, copyright doesn't protect privacy, those are two separate things. Disney is a company that took folk stories that lived in public domain, packaged it and released as their own. That's ok, the works were public domain anyway. The problem is that after that, they continue to lobby in a way that no future works will ever enter public domain. Our constitution says that copyright needs to expire, there is a loophole though, because it doesn't say when it should expire, so every time Mickey Mouse copyright is about to expire they lobby the congress to extend it further. The copyright originally lasted 10 years, now it's 120 years after author's death.