This is the biggest problem I have. Disney already has plenty of money to lobby Congress, taking over another studio won’t change that - but we’ll be consolidating more and more IP’s that we love under a behemoth that can go wrong in so many ways.

Well, it seems to lend itself towards monopolization for no economic reason, as can be seen at the renteers dominating scientific publications.

> works that lead and inspire all of us?

Here we go, gentlemen. The cattle take as their own the pablum the owners feed them.

(Cheers.)

To the extent culture is based on commercial dreck, it doesn’t deserve to be protected.

Then there should be provisions in the copyright law to allow the govt to suspend copyright when entertainment becomes part of the culture, similar to how some patent protections are suspended in India when a medicine is determined to be essential

There already is one right in the Constitution: "limited time". Originally copyright in the US only lasted 14-28 years. Copyright is supposed to expire quickly enough that important parts of culture will not be tied up by copyright.