There is no good reason for copyright to ever expire. This is wholly wrong. There are entire classes of good where marginal consumption does not dilute the val

There is no good reason for copyright to ever expire. This is wholly wrong. There are entire classes of good where marginal consumption does not dilute the value of average consumption. The purpose of copyrights is to subsidize (temporarily) the production of such goods. This under the theory that they would not otherwise be (or only inefficiently) be produced. Certainly mickey mouse needs no further encouragement...extending DIS an ongoing franchise is pure and simple pork-barrel-politics to the governing class that relies on the media (eg, ABC a DIS subsidiary) to get elected (and/or the electoral votes of Florida).