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, …
They already do that. What is it like half their movies come from public domain works?
Public domain because the authors are long-dead. You can’t steal sales from a corpse.
I gotcha. Guess I can start making Mickey Mouse movies, not fucking steamboat, real Mickey.