One of the supposed justifications for the intellectual monopoly called copyright is that it drives creativity and culture. In the last few weeks alone we have had multiple demonstrations of why the opposite is true: copyright destroys culture, and not by accident, but wilfully. For example, the MTVNews.com site, along with its sister site CMT.com, …
I gotcha. Guess I can start making Mickey Mouse movies, not fucking steamboat, real Mickey.
you’re comparing disney re-using work in a manner that directly competes with its living author with them re-using work of somebody who’s dead
disney abuses the current system by pushing for copyright extensions because disney would abuse literally any system
disney’s abuse of a no-copyright system would be significantly worse than disney’s abuse of this copyright system