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Should intellectual properties / franchises that are not used go public domain? (Please expand on your vote in the thread.)

Yes, but only after a significant amount of time.
Yes, within a few decades.
Yes, within a decade.
Only in certain cases.
I am undecided.
No, never.
Other (Please post)
Don't care. / View poll.

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Author Topic: Should Franchises / Intellectual Properties That Are Not Used Go Public Domain?  (Read 4970 times)

Tawa

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Man, his profile isn't even accessible. Did Toady unperson him or something?
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penguinofhonor

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I think that's what happens when Toady full on deletes your account. It is rare that non-spambot people get that.
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Tawa

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Spoopy. Nobody on the modern banlist has gotten banned that hard.
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Caz

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Bay12 gets weirder and weirder every day.
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TheDarkStar

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Bay12 gets weirder and weirder every day.

And it's all our fault, Pathos. :P
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Praise Necro! Praise Pathos!
They were unmade for our Shitposts.
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    • I APPLAUD YOU SIRRAH

Odd. Reminds me of the error.404 threads that were just 750 posts of error.404.

Bohandas

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To be honest, this thread makes me feel completely ashamed to be have read this thread, as someone who would like to become an author. Most authors already live below the poverty line if we take what they make on their work into account, and rights are the only real money in the industry. The only people who make money after rights pass into public domain are then the publishers, who already take the lion's share of the money anyway.

Publishers are obsolete! The barrier to online redistribution provided by copyright is the only reason they take in any money ay all.

A single decade? Yeah, thanks, anything after my X reprint (I should be so lucky) goes straight into the publisher's pocket.

Again, why wpuld anybody buy the book if they could legally download it for free? I mean, I'm sure a few copies would still sell, but only to people living in areas with frequent blackouts, doomsday preppers, and folks getting ready for camping trips or the like.
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Tawa

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Bohandas, why are you responding to five-year-old posts?
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Bohandas

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It came up in the search results when I was looking for the thread about DVD burning software.
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penguinofhonor

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If you see someone who's gone five years without being told they're wrong, can you resist the desire to correct this injustice?
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Furtuka

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Spoopy. Nobody on the modern banlist has gotten banned that hard.
Actually I saw King Kravoka has had that effect on certain posts. I believe the reasons for this are deeper than that.
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Tawa

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Weird, his profile still exists. I wonder why?
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There is no such thing as a King Kravoka.
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