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Re:How Mickey Mouse Evades the Public Domain by halviti on Friday January 08, 2016 @06:20AM (#10864149)
Ideas and concepts have the ability to benefit society as a whole. Physical property benefits very few.

Also after a certain period of time, it becomes a bit of a stretch to suggest that nobody else would have thought of that same idea over a long enough time frame.

Now of course, I'm not really speaking to Mickey Mouse, so much as I am scientific breakthroughs and good ideas that improve on old concepts, but it's all IP.

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Re:How Mickey Mouse Evades the Public Domain by rdlecler1 on Friday January 08, 2016 @12:50PM (#10866704)
Physical property benefits very few if you and your offspring are allowed to squat on it for eternity as scarcity drives up its value. If you had limits on it, maybe that peppery goes back to auction bringing more properly into supply for more communal use.
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Re:How Mickey Mouse Evades the Public Domain by traject_ on Friday January 08, 2016 @11:40AM (#10866125)
My only problem with that argument is , by that logic, wouldn't land containing a large deposit of oil or some natural resource be public property. The property given to the public would definitely benefit society as a whole.
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