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Having a static, immovable belief system about something like copyright that is unaffected by seismic shifts in the real world also doesn't seem very logical.

If like, Disney did a 180 overnight and bought rights from Google to scan every writer's saved work in Docs with some flimsy legal argument then a person saying "wait doesn't copyright actually protect that" would make sense. Even if you were previously upset about them suing schools for using 80 year art.



Sure. So you’re saying MPAA was right and you’ve come around?

Creative works have always been accretive. There had never been a creative work made out of whole cloth, with no debt to any previous work.

The fact your opinions about creative works change based on who’s profiting does not change that.




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