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Originally Posted by kane
Fair point.
Could they not have used these ideas and struck a deal with the copyright owners and given them a small commission? Think Lord of the Rings. I know the books are not in the public domain, but they were able to use that idea and created three great movies that made over a billion dollars at the box office. I would guess Disney could get with whoever owned the copyright of Snow White (or whatever story they were going to do) and cut a deal with them that would let them develop the movie and share some of the profits down the road.
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you don't have a god given right to a monopoly, the government gave you a temporary monopoly as an insentive to creating the works. It was supposed to be only strong enough to allow you to recover your costs + reasonable profit.
prepetual monopoly are always a bad thing, in fact their are laws against it specifically because of that fact.
such a change to copyright would result in exactly that type of sherman anti trust violating monopoly.
you basically arguing for sherman anti trust law not to apply to copyright, to take away the balancing condition (limited time/fair use) that was put in place to make the granting of that monopoly in the public good.
It sort of funny that copyright lobbiest argue they are pro business when they are arguing against a free market, and in favor or a government granted monopoly.