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Because Disney essentially IS copyright.

The MPAA is just a publicity shunt so that people don't associate the bad press of the MPAA with the 8 brands that are behind it. [0]

The Copyright Extension Act of 1998 is called Mickey Mouse Protection Act. [1]

The modern BS of copyright lasting 100yrs [2] is caused because of the Disney corporation and the Mickey Mouse brand. Copyright will always be at least ($current_year - 1928) because of the Mickey Mouse brand.

She feels hopeless because the company that wrote modern copyright law is infringing on her copyright.

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Association_of_A...

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act

2: Graph of US copyright terms from 1790 (30 yrs of copyright) to modern times

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Copyright_term.svg

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I always find the hypocrisy of Disney amazing given that the majority of their IP is a remix of something someone else wrote.



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