Copyright terms are so fucking stupid. Imagine getting into trouble for using Popeye. Make it the same as a patent duration and be done with it.
You can really see how invested the copyright owners were to get such long durations.
“I’m not saying that’s how it should be. I’m saying that’s how it is.”
- Tom Scott, 2020
YouTube’s copyright system isn’t broken. The world’s is. (43 minutes long, but worth a watch)
Dude the superman and batman stuff is gonna be nuts
Whoa! That’s illegal buddy. In more ways than one…
THERE ARE NO LAWS ON THE MOON, BATMAN!
Wait, you’re telling me I can draw Batman x Superman porn in 10 years and sell it?
I want all of them to live together in one big house, reality TV style!!
… it appears there are mockups:
Ah, but they’ll lobby harder. Batman will enter the public domain in 2,635.
People said that for years before Mickey entered public domain. It didn’t happen.
Yeah, they had shifted for a Trademark strategy a few years before it happened. It was pretty clear they weren’t interested in making it happen again, or had finally got pushback from the folks they donated to about it, or something. And if Disney decided to drop it, I don’t think WB, with less than half the cash, will decide to try it.
Copyright should be 14 years.
I wonder if this will herald an era of more original content and less of all this reusing of stuff all the time.
It won’t change anything. Old stories and characters are boring. Studios do it from time to time but like Robinhood movies aren’t great investments and since they don’t own the IP don’t lead to anything else.
Community made content is just for fun, so who cares if people make repetitive fan films, art, games.
Apparently it will herald an era of crappy horror movies.
Snow White and the seven dwarves are 200 years old and already in the public domain.
The stories are, but not the characters as drawn by Disney, it’s like classic music, you can use the Music commercially (given that you Perform I), but you can’t use a performance from someone else.
Same with classic stories, you can make your own snow white story, but you can’t use snow white as performed by Disney (yet)
Blaze@reddthat.com Surprised there isn’t more stuff with Winnie Pooh considering he’s in the public domain, pretty interesting graph tho
Can’t make any money off Winnie the Pooh content in China… for reasons.
