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So should Disney be forced to license Avengers at the same price I license my cat videos? Should every content creator be forced to license everything? Why stop at video? What about books? Software?




Maybe the answer is yes, after a certain amount of time has passed.

It would be a great compromise to our insane copyright periods that currently exist if you ask me.

The industry can keep it insanely long copyright lengths but maybe after 20 years the whole world should be free to distribute Seinfeld and Friends and just pay a standard royalty rate so that content rights holders don’t become consolidated empires that are too big to compete against realistically, becoming inevitable monopoly players.


Wolverine and Deadpool cost $430 million to make. My hypothetical cat video was free to make. How is it fair that Disney has to license their movie for the same as mine?



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