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   jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 13:48:54 JST jwz

   Willingham Sends Fables Into the Public Domain.

   Absolute table-flip badassery: The comic book property called Fables, including all related Fables spin-offs and characters, is now in the public domain. What was once wholly owned by Bill Willingham is...
   https://jwz.org/b/ykEM

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     scott f (scott@carfree.city)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 17:05:35 JST scott f

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     • Neo-Rodneyite ✍🏿📖
     • Pax Ahimsa Gethen

     @jalcine @funcrunch @jwz Probably 99.9% of creative works aren't bringing in any revenue 20 years later, so having copyright longer than that is a bit like a lottery: great for the few who hit it big, at a steep cost for everyone else who can't (afford to) remix that culture. While capitalist publishers can game the system by buying lots of lottery tickets.

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     Neo-Rodneyite ✍🏿📖 (jalcine@todon.eu)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 17:05:36 JST Neo-Rodneyite ✍🏿📖

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     • scott f
     • Pax Ahimsa Gethen

     @scott @funcrunch @jwz my immediate assumption was that this works best if you managed to make enough from it but that was trumped by the option of ✨ making more ✨ lol

     Børge repeated this.
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     scott f (scott@carfree.city)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 17:05:38 JST scott f

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     • Neo-Rodneyite ✍🏿📖
     • Pax Ahimsa Gethen

     @jalcine @funcrunch @jwz Why wouldn't 20 years work for indie music?

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     Neo-Rodneyite ✍🏿📖 (jalcine@todon.eu)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 17:05:38 JST Neo-Rodneyite ✍🏿📖

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     • Pax Ahimsa Gethen

     @scott @funcrunch @jwz

     You know, thinking about this more, there's no reason outside of my naivete around music production and licensing.

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     Neo-Rodneyite ✍🏿📖 (jalcine@todon.eu)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 17:05:39 JST Neo-Rodneyite ✍🏿📖

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     • Pax Ahimsa Gethen

     @funcrunch @jwz it's way better than some other rotating posits I've seen (actually including what's in Chokepoint Capitalism).

     Twenty years might not work for things like indie music, but imagine this for video games!

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     Pax Ahimsa Gethen (funcrunch@me.dm)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 17:05:40 JST Pax Ahimsa Gethen

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     @jwz

     Wow. I know nothing about this author or series, but I'm intrigued by his proposal to reform copyright to last for 30 years max (20 years for the original author with an option to grant another 10 years to someone else). The endless "Mickey Mouse" extensions of copyright clearly need to go.

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     Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 17:17:42 JST Børge

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     • Steinar Bang

     @jwz @steinarb Well, this is incredibly cool and interesting!

     Reading his text, though, I can't help but think that he maybe should've gone with a CC BY-SA license, if he wants to stop giant corporations from proffiting off of his works. But still, wow!

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     jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Sep-2023 02:08:11 JST jwz

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     • Børge

     @forteller Yes, he absolutely should go back in time to 2001 when he was negotiating his contract with DC Comics, and say to them, "Hey, instead of your standard contract I want you to agree to use this other weird nerd license license that has *not been invented yet*."

     I'm sure they would have said, "Cool, let's absolutely do that, barely-known, non-famous comic author! That sounds fun and interesting to us!"

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     Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Saturday, 16-Sep-2023 02:08:11 JST Børge

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     @jwz Well, he didn't go back in time to put it in PD, so sorry for not knowing that he would have to do that to change the license to CC instead.