[tenebrisalietum]

I think this article is incomplete without mentioning oppressive IP laws that enable copyright to basically support multi-generational legacies. Patents: I'm not sure how patents are extended past their 17 year limit but if they are, it's the same thing.

"Intangible assets" are more or less propped up by these laws. Would Microsoft be a $250bn company if copyright on Windows and Office only lasted 10 years?

You can't count on most physical assets outlasting the typical copyright term. So this is where all the value and power is moving to because it's literally protected by law and never decays.