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Why should modern shareholders of the Disney corporation earn all the profits from what some people did 120 years ago? What good does that serve?

• kemotep 3y ago
  Well they currently are still making Mickey Mouse cartoons. Are you saying that the characters should only have a limited copyright and corporations/authors should lose control over the characters after a shorter period?
  • xfz 3y ago
    By the time I was born Mickey Mouse was so embedded in popular culture that it would be unreasonable to expect me to avoid the character. I certainly won't be telling my daughter to choose which characters to like depending on the state of so-called intellectual property laws, that would be absurd. All this adds up to the fact that established characters are already effectively part of the public domain. A perpetual monopoly on children's culture is both unnatural and unjust. Disney still benefits from trademark law on their characters along with a generous monopoly on new creations. I would argue that extending this further would reduce the incentive to innovate. I don't know what the parent poster had in mind, but in my view losing most control by now is absolutely right and proper.
  • mcpackieh 3y ago
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