Can We Please Leave Mickey Alone?
Cory over at Boing Boing complains that Disney wants infinite copyright.
So? Give them infinite copyright over their shit.
Lessig's already got a solution for this. Let those that want to keep their copyright pay to extend it. Let those things that are orphaned fall into the public domain. Everybody's happy. I've talked about this before.
I realize it's Disney pushing for these extensions…has anyone bothered to offer them this alternative idea? I think they'd be happy to pay a little bit every five years or so and save all the money they're currently using to lobby Washington to fuck up copyright law for everybody.
Seriously: can anyone show me where somebody offered this alternative and they turned it down?
