@kkarhan @ajsadauskas @technology @music@fedibb.ml @music@lemmy.ml @senficon Oh, I know. I did some reading on Coble and Disney in the late 1990s, and I was stunned to learn about how much stuff they were squatting on. But money talks loudly enough to drown out all other voices.
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@kkarhan @ajsadauskas @technology @music@fedibb.ml @music@lemmy.ml @senficon My late congresscritter, Howard Coble, was responsible for that. A product of north-central North Carolina, he was nicknamed "The Congressman from Disney" in the district (and in Washington) because of all the water he carried for that corporation on IP matters.
@kkarhan @ajsadauskas @technology @music@fedibb.ml @music@lemmy.ml @senficon Oh, I quite agree. Coble's hometown paper editorialized against the copyright changes Disney bought through him at the time, but nobody else listened. Coble certainly didn't.