"Culture is public. By arguing that it should be privately owned, you are effectively saying that poor people shouldn't be allowed to participate." There are p

"Culture is public. By arguing that it should be privately owned, you are effectively saying that poor people shouldn't be allowed to participate." There are plenty of options, like going to your public library, that don't involve copyright infringement. How are poor children able to download a movie illegally from the Internet, yet can't don't have any money to purchase it legally? "Why are the greedy profit motivations of a giant multinational corporation more important to you than poor children's cultural participation? You aren't being a rational realist, you are just being selfish and classist." You could say the same thing about anything: you are depriving a poor family a home if they can't move into yours without paying you, you greedy classist! "Disney built their business on the back of the public domain. Every single great movie they made builds off the work of others." Yet, the public domain movie wasn't nearly as popular nor do we even remember them. This means they added value. You also failed to mention all of the jobs Disney provides. Should all of these people be deprived a living (and possibly lose their homes? "Can you name single great work of art created by Disney that isn't mostly derivative? Reflect on why you can't: they are monetizers of existing culture, not creators of originality." Can you name the original works? If not, they probably weren't that good.