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Given Disney's successful lobbying history (see: Mickey Mouse Act for copyright extension), they might be one of the few organizations who could enact some change to the patent industry.

Whether those changes would be positive (for industries outside theirs) is another thing.



Ha. This is a one-time tactical move only. Their interest in everlasting patent reform is zero.


Hey now, they don't want infinitely long periods for intellectual property... they are for limited periods of "forever minus a day".


Too obvious. It's easier to achieve this effect by doing what they're currently doing: Periodic extensions that apply retroactively.


But then where would they get their stories from?


This is not about patents in general, it's just about patents that they don't own.




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