It was surely to design a system of continual innovation that ensures the public domain received its due benefit from providing the environment in which the ide

It was surely to design a system of continual innovation that ensures the public domain received its due benefit from providing the environment in which the idea was created, while guaranteeing sufficient incentive to innovate by providing a reasonable but modest term for individuals to profit from their ideas. Selecting a subset of its mechanisms and declaring that it is the goal misses the entire point of the policy. Why did things go so off the rails after WWII? I do not think Disney did this alone.