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What it sounds like you’re saying is “this stuff is too old to be interesting” which is kind of the point.

• ronsor 2y ago
  The point of copyright is to promote the creation of new works. It has nothing to do with the popularity of the work under copyright or after entering the public domain. Mickey Mouse was still relevant at the time of entering the public domain, ninety-five lobbied years later.
  • deprecative 2y ago
    To add it's only Steamboat Willie Mickey that is public domain. The actual character as we think of him isn't. The creator has been dead for nearly 80 years. It's absolutely insane that any of those creations are still privately owned.
  • liontwist 2y ago
    Yep. But if it still commands economic value for its creator and you cut that off, then it is reducing that incentive to create and cultivate in the first place.
    • account42 2y ago
      You are assuming that incentive to create keeps increasing with more monetary reward. Incentive doesn't start out at zero without rewards (see history before copyright) and is never infinite (what good is infinite money if you never get to use it).
      • liontwist 2y ago
        And you are assuming it doesn’t. Brand is valuable for consumers and protecting that brand only makes sense if you continue to have ownership and control over it. For a non infinite money glitch version of this, see “Calvin and Hobbes”. Would the world be better if those characters could be printed on random merchandise?