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Drop copyright to 5 years and theaters will be huge again showing older movies and shows at reasonable prices you either can't get on streaming or prefer in a community setting. 100+ year copyrights owned by corpo monopolies are choking both independent and smaller project artists and theaters.
Most films that recoup their costs only do so after a decade or more. A 5-year period would wipe out independent film instantly, and would leave AI slop as the only content being made.