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		happymellon 2 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Copyright does more harm than good and should be a... Hollywood was created by ignoring copyrights. https://penntoday.upenn.edu/2012-05-10/research/bumpy-histor... They may have ignored patents too, but they build their work on copyright infringement.
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ronsor 2 days ago [–]

I stand corrected. They apparently ignored copyright too (in retrospect, using existing screenplays made sense for the early industry).

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