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> While I agree with you, I'm struggling to find a good argument why intellectual property should be treated differently from physical property 1) First reason
by csdreamer7 2y ago
> While I agree with you, I'm struggling to find a good argument why intellectual property should be treated differently from physical property
1) First reason, it is not physical property.
2) Second, many of the creators who lobbied for longer copyright terms benefited from a rich public domain when they did not have anything. In the case of Walt Disney, he made a film series based on Alice in Wonderland, which never had copyright protection in the US, and it's copyright expired in the UK in 1907.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney#Early_career:_1920%E2%80%931928 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney#Early_career:_1920...
- a57721 2y agoDisney also used "Le Sacre du printemps" in "Fantasia" after meeting Stravinsky, who was offended by the idea. However, Disney informed him that he would use it anyway since it was not protected in the US. Stravinsky was paid pennies.