Hollywood was created by ignoring copyrights.

Your argument is non-sequitur and nihilist. America was created by colonizing Native land, so should we somehow evict hundreds of millions of people in the name of justice? (/rhetorical)

Original sin is a sunk cost. If you want to make the world better, you focus on what's right for tomorrow, not what was right for a century ago.

	▲	happymellon an hour ago \| parent [-]
		So, is Hollywood a good or bad thing? Was it is a good thing and it was created by ignoring copyrights and therefore we shouldn't protect copyrights as an absolute because other good things can be created out of it, or is it a bad thing and is using that copyright to restrict others. You can't have it both ways. My point was just that defense of Hollywood is a terrible example.

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ronsor 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Hollywood was created by ignoring (Edison) patents, not copyright.

On the other hand, Disney's success is largely owed to public domain adaptations, and for a century, it did its best to shrink the public domain and expand copyright.

	▲	happymellon an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Hollywood was created by ignoring copyrights. https://penntoday.upenn.edu/2012-05-10/research/bumpy-histor... They may have ignored patents too, but they build their work on copyright infringement.