Wow I didn't know seed companies went that as to trespass far that's insane. Their lawyers probably put in the contract when they bought the seeds that's so scummy.

Amazon and the likes probably threw a party when FTC Lina Khan left. Maybe the solution is to reduce the number of years you can hold a copyright because it is unfair when you've done all the hard work, R&D from the ground up only for Amazon to come in once they seen your idea become a commercial success.

The point I was making about books is selling classical works and undercutting the original publishing house. I don't think we've see people mass producing Moby Dick or whatever and doing this. Or they could make a new Harry Potter book set in the same world with the same characters. People should be allowed to do that. Owning an idea is just dumb.

btw Mickey Mouse is open domain now and we haven't seen films with this character appear, let alone reach 1% of success of disney, it's just knockoff backpacks for kids with this character that are being made. Sonic fans have been making fan games since forever and I've yet to see them announced at E3 or similar conventions, in these cases you never see a derivative product overtaking the original creators.

The whole idea that copyright protects is for them and not us.