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gizmo686 on Jan 28, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: When arts die, they turn into hobbies

If we had perpetual copyright, Shakespeare would have been sued out of existence.

deciplex on Jan 29, 2015 | [–]

To expand on this, if we had perpetual copyright, we wouldn't have culture.

visakanv on Jan 29, 2015 | [–]

Love that somebody raised this. :-) Same applies to Disney.

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