Disney and Fox

I really don’t have a great deal to say about the proposed Disney and Fox merger other than to express my opinion that we should be breaking up horizontally integrated monopolies rather than creating them.

I also think that the cost of the deformation of copyright law that Disney bought and paid for back in 1999 should be that the company should be barred from the distribution business entirely. Under the Constitution copyrights must be for limited terms and if you can extend a copyright after the fact there’s no barrier to their terms being unlimited.

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  • CuriousOnlooker Link

    100% agreed. Through I admit I do wish Disney gets the X-Men franchise. Nobody else can get the comic superhero genre right.

  • Andy Link

    Also 100% agreed. My daughter, however, is ecstatic about the Marvel convergence.

  • steve Link

    What the heck. Let’s have a day when everyone agrees. I agree 100%.

    Steve

  • PD Shaw Link

    WRONG!!!

  • PD Shaw Link

    I’m not sure what I’m disagreeing with, but to me it’s the spirit of the thing that matters most.

  • Gray Shambler Link

    A lot of power over the nations’ culture in one company. For better or for worse, movies and television and now electronic games shape our norms, our heros, and our values. Smart people subtly make yesterdays values into jokes no young person wants to reflect.
    Should make money though, so to hell with that stuff.

  • Yes, that’s my concern. Too much power concentrated in the hands of one company, the classic reason to break up a monopoly. Disney is not a natural monopoly. Its monopoly was granted by the government. IMO this is a real CF.

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