We’d probably be better off without copyright laws on some things like characters and likenesses at least to an extent. There should be some provision there to allow for fanfiction to flourish and be sold if it’s good.
Super heroes would be amazing. You’d have epic stories were people had values and died, not the capeshit they put out. They’d have made use of all the cool stuff and symbolism Star Wars could offer. Imagine a world where all you had to do was just take the thing and write it well. Where you can’t really make a bad Star Wars movie because fans just wrote their own and you can just use that to make it. Having companies compete to make different renditions of epic fan fiction that got popular because it was simply well written uses of an idea.
I don’t imagine any leftist or woke versions of anything would thrive in that environment because if you’re not forced to see them then no one would choose them.
Copyright seemingly wasn’t intended to allow for infinite franchising and other people coming in to destroy a property.
I think copyright should last 50 years from the date of creation, period. That's plenty of time for an author to enjoy the benefits of exclusive rights. It also covers their family, if the author dies prematurely.
Current copyright laws allow corporations to have exclusive rights to creative works that they had no hand in creating.
It’s sad to think that Star Wars would have been better left to fan fiction.
We’d probably be better off without copyright laws on some things like characters and likenesses at least to an extent. There should be some provision there to allow for fanfiction to flourish and be sold if it’s good.
Super heroes would be amazing. You’d have epic stories were people had values and died, not the capeshit they put out. They’d have made use of all the cool stuff and symbolism Star Wars could offer. Imagine a world where all you had to do was just take the thing and write it well. Where you can’t really make a bad Star Wars movie because fans just wrote their own and you can just use that to make it. Having companies compete to make different renditions of epic fan fiction that got popular because it was simply well written uses of an idea.
I don’t imagine any leftist or woke versions of anything would thrive in that environment because if you’re not forced to see them then no one would choose them.
Copyright seemingly wasn’t intended to allow for infinite franchising and other people coming in to destroy a property.
I think copyright should last 50 years from the date of creation, period. That's plenty of time for an author to enjoy the benefits of exclusive rights. It also covers their family, if the author dies prematurely.
Current copyright laws allow corporations to have exclusive rights to creative works that they had no hand in creating.