Thread by @textfiles

Wait, a Disney lawyer cooked up a counterclaim of "hey, she is being so mean to us" with a dash of "how can you think of money at a time like this"?

https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1420858831119081474

I don't know how many people were paying attention to this, but Disney attempted to break a massive amount of contracts and provisions when they bought Marvel and 20th Century Fox

Indicated that because they weren't the ones who negotiated the contracts, they weren't liable for them and they weren't in effect. This was such a insane attempt at rewriting the concept of contract law that I think it went nowhere

Based on my observations of this company for the last couple of years, my assumption is that when Mickey Mouse drops out of copyright shortly, Disney will simply invent a new super copyright that applies forever

Nobody who works in copyright law seems to believe me which is really silly because if they work in copyright law they have watched Disney for 25 years and they know full well what this company is capable of

Therefore my assumption is that they will all eventually just go work for Disney

There is a book that is coming out at the end of this year that argues that giving writers a special permanent copyright is the only true way to allow innovation in the intellectual space so we're in for a pretty interesting 2022

Or in the case of this book, a lot of tables and shelves on uneven floors are finally going to be able to sit level