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  • A lot of that is a direct result of copyright extensions. Disney and other copyrights holders have distorted copyright from an intentionally limited duration monopoly intended to promote the creation of works into effectively infinite duration “intellectual property” that stifles the creation of works.

    What should have happened/should happen to these genre defining works is that they should have lost their copyrights and become public domain after at most 28 years. At which point anyone would have been able to make their own “Star Wars”, “Lord of the Rings”, etc. works which would allow the works to become genres of their own. Instead we get perpetual “intellectual property” franchises.