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Re:Disney Is Placing Classic Fox Movies into Its Vault by nobodyandproud on Sunday October 27, 2019 @10:25AM (#21369868)
It’s worrying because Disney lobbied over the years to increase the length of copyright.

They perverted the intent of copyright, which is to encourage the arts by providing a temporary monopoly: After which artists are expected and encouraged to freely borrow any bits of the work and create their own.

Now they’re outright restricting even viewing of famous works. Disney is terribly corrosive.

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Re:Disney Is Placing Classic Fox Movies into Its Vault by gamblor956 on Sunday October 27, 2019 @02:18PM (#21371444)
While true, Disney has nothing compared to European authors, who lobbied the EU to create significantly stronger copyright protections than even Disney was able to lobby for in the US.

So stop blaming Disney for the state of copyright, and start blaming all the European auteurs who tried (and nearly succeeded) in getting indefinite copyrights that passed down from the creator to his estate in perpetuity.

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