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why games should enter the public domain by vibgyorc6
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/02/03/editorial-why-games-should-enter-the-public-domain/
this is pretty much what my opinion of copyright is. this guy pretty much delivered all the points a thousands times better than i ever could.
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I agree so much with this. Even if I didn't suck at making music and people actually wanted my stuff, I couldn't see myself charging for music. Like he was saying, I feel like I'm putting my art back into the creative pool that spawned it.
I make art to create, not to profit.
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those fucking tags holyshit god bless weasyl and alphabetical tags
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It produced truth
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"The rights to the game, the ownership, lies with the publisher that funds it, not the creatives who create it. When a 20, 30 year old game is still being charged for, not a single person who was involved in its creation is getting a dime."
Power.
Games, movies, comics, other media, are our modern mythology. Sacred. They are not only a product to be sold, and are not only entertainment.
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What a good article; the man makes a very sensible argument.
It would be interesting to see how laws like that, if realized, would affect the gaming scene. Would that mean that twenty years after release anybody could use the characters or setting of a game for their own projects? Would 'Mario' be featured in Sony and Microsoft games? Would third-party developers be able to legally make games with the mushroom kingdom as the setting, without having to go into just-slightly-different parody terms? ... Or am I not understanding how this public domain thing works at all?
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I am unsure, but I think a trademark is the type of thing that Mario and The Mushroom Kingdom, would be protected by, rather than copyright. I think that an individual game is protected by copyright. Faust says this is correct. He says, words and phrases are generally trademarked, ideas as in for franchises and games, are generally copyrighted. "Optimus Prime," he says, because it is a made up word or rather a combination of words that would not make sense in any other context, is copyrighted. You have as the source of this information two people and I got my original information from Faust, yesterday, while talking about such things so really you have only one source.
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If trademarks would still be in full legal effect then what difference would a copyright expiring make? Just that people other than the original creator can sell and distribute the work?
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goddamn it weasyl why did you have to sort the tags alphabetically