re: #439 victor_yugo

If Disney Corp. and Warner Brothers and MGM and and and… would have their way, they’d still be getting royalties on every copy of Steamboat Willy and every copy of Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs and every Buster Keaton silent movie and every black-and-white Popeye cartoon that gets put to DVD, long after any “work” had gone into them. If that wouldn’t be “free money,” I don’t know what would be.

He was begrudging Walter the “privilege” of earning money from his works within his lifetime.