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It isn't ironic at all, and I think you are missing the point. A Disney property entering the public domain is a bad thing for Disney. Yes, people can make mone

• jonnathanson 12y ago
  Respectfully, I think you're missing my point. I don't disagree with anything you've just written, and nor do my prior posts. "If a Disney property enters public domain then people other than Disney can make money." Correct. And Disney argues the opposite: that, if its properties enter the public domain, they'll be devalued. Nobody will want to make money off of them. Hence, my point that Disney (and others who champion the anti-public domain argument) is wrong about that. Case in point: Disney itself, who makes a lot of money reviving old public-domain properties. When it comes to the public domain, Disney wants to have its cake and eat it, too. It happily revitalizes and capitalizes on properties in the public domain -- then it turns around and argues that its own properties should never enter the public domain, because the public domain is a deadpool. That argument is silly on its face, and Disney is living proof of it.