AMPTP denies that allegation, saying the claim that the digital replicas of background performers may be used in perpetuity with no consent or compensation is false.
In Europe, the law of primogeniture, and perpetuities of different kinds, prevent the division of great estates, and thereby hinder the multiplication of small proprietors.
Fully cartelized, Rhodes could now artificially restrict diamond production, maintaining high prices in perpetuity – a monopoly which De Beers retained for more than a century.