For good of all (Score 1)

So you say that they stopped bickering over copyrights because America needed planes for WW1? So how does that impact most of our problems today? Ok, here we go ... Bush decides the best way to oust Sadam is to play Britney Spears all over Iraq's loudspeakers, and that forces all of the music industry to realize they are holding back "American industry" and for national security reasons they give up their copyrights. See what I'm saying? Airplanes are far more important to our country, from the military uses to transportation, and most of the items under dispute now don't have any hard built-in value - our society is not going to suffer from the lack of their current use, and there is no broader use for them. So no, a tragedy or war will not cause the modern-day bickering over copyrights to cease.