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   From: dtravel@sonic.net   
      
   Thanatos wrote:   
   > In article ,   
   >  Anim8rFSK  wrote:   
   >   
   >> In article <1256927582.300636@irys.nyx.net>,   
   >>  Blanche  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> It's not restraint of trade or even capitalism. It's property rights.   
   >>> More specifically, intellectual property rights.   
   >>>   
   >>> (oh my gawd, we had this argument 15 years ago, right here   
   >>> on the trek newsgroups....does no one ever learn?)   
   >>>   
   >>> Disney owns the rights to Snow White, et al. Sumner Redstone (in his   
   >> Disney owns the rights to the elements THEY CREATED of Snow White.   
   >> Nothing's stopping anyone from doing a new version of Snow White based   
   >> on the original public domain material   
   >   
   > Nothing except Disney. Try it and they'll make your life a living hell   
   > until you submit.   
      
   That's a problem with Disney, not the existence of copyright.  More   
   generally, its a problem with the wealthy & powerful using said wealth   
   and power to keep anyone else from becoming wealthy and powerful.  The   
   concept of "Copyright" is actually one of the protections against that.   
      
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