Mickey Mouse, Existential Threat to Society?

Copyright is crucial to art and entertainment in our world, but has it gone too far? With nostalgia franchises like Star Wars failing at the box office, is it time to rethink our approach to intellectual properties?

Extra reading if you are interested in: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1436186 (Forever Minus a Day? Calculating Optimal Copyright Term)