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He may have made less money and heay have made more, with different monetization schemes.

Copyright is a monetization scheme, but it's not the only one.

In this imagined world, cinemas would have no movies to show, so they'd have to pay people like Lucas to create the films such that there'd be something to put on the screen. If many cinemas got together, and maybe got loans, they could pay for bigger budget films, too



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