Or How Disney—which uses a lot of water and electricity—destroyed Buster Keaton.
"Mickey Mouse's first cartoon, "Steamboat Willie" built upon the Buster Keaton movie, Steamboat Bill, Jr. and if today's world of copyright had existed then, maybe Buster Keaton would have been able to stop the creation of Mickey Mouse. That's the road to stagnation. But where do you draw the line for physical property? Is eminent domain's power unlimited? We can't force you to put up blue drapes inside your house in the name of the public interest. And even in the case of eminent domain, political forces often determine the definition of public interest."
An Interview with Lawrence Lessig on Copyrights
http://www.econlib.org/Library/Columns/y2003/Lessigcopyright.html/
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