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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 7689881" data-attributes="member: 177">Has anyone in the thread suggested we do need endless copyright?  Seems a bit of a strawman.There's a bit of disagreement on how long it should be - seven years seems a bit short (and arbitrary - why not six, or eight?), but I don't think anyone's saying it should be forever.Problem:  While an individual creator is just an individual, as soon as a work is created by multiple people, you effectively have a business entity of those people.  There were hundreds of people involved in just the creative side of The Force Awakens, likely thousands of people overall involved in the production.  There is no way to represent the rights of that large a collection except as a business entity.</blockquote>