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And how much do they spend lobbying in order to cheat their way out of releasing their works into the public domain?
by zizee 13y ago
And how much do they spend lobbying in order to cheat their way out of releasing their works into the public domain?
- tptacek 13y agoI don't think Disney needs to do much lobbying to protect their copyright on _Brave_.
- zizee 13y agoYou are right, they didn't spend a cent on lobbying to protect Brave. They'd already bought and paid for their extensions across all their works already, now and into the future. Pretty good investment that.
- rayiner 13y agoProbably very little. The feeling in the wind seems to be that copyright should never end. And why should it? Other property rights don't end.
- zizee 13y agoBecause Intellectual Property is fundamentally different from Physical Property? Society grants IP rights as an exchange. Exclusive access granted for a period of time to allow people to profit from their work - then it goes public domain so that society is enriched in turn.