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context: The problem is there shouldn't be a Tolkien estate that owns the rights. Once the creator is dead there needs to be a hard limit before their work passes in public domain. I personally think 5 or 10 years. At that point no family or company should ever have control over any work (whether music or books or art or whatever it is) and all of it is simply public domain. 
  Can you imagine Mozart or Shakespeare works being owned in perpetuity by a corporation or the shakespear estate?  That is the future under modern Disney created copy write laws. It, like much of capitalism, is a horrible system based on greed that robs the world of a massive amount of music, literature and art. And now will keep that up FOREVER unless we change these laws. >
  
  It's dumb as hell, but it's also a result of copyright and trademark laws.  If you don't defend your copyright or trademark, you lose the right to do so.  It's the same reason that the Sports Car Club of America had to sue the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance a couple of decades ago. >
  
  You don't need the but, it's just dumb as hell. >
  
  But this isn’t English class >
  
  I think you misunderstood me. The sentence could end after the word "hell."