saturns

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the real actual Kato. Plausibly deniably DJ.

 
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lifning
@lifning

is having nostalgia for all sorts of 80s and 90s games, movies, shows, etc.

and seeing it manifest as brand worship at conventions, online discourse splitting hairs over details of the latest installment of a franchise, fans getting so excited to be drip-fed trivial fanservice with no heart of its own that it succeeds anyway

feeling the dissonance between some of your communities condemning Netflix's vocal pro-transphobia stance and others evidently willing to look past all that to promote their new scrimblo cartoon for them (unpaid)

and looking at how these are all 20+ year old properties
and just saying to yourself "...this should've been ours by now."
and cursing the name of Disney


Kayin
@Kayin

I feel very strongly that 20 years is perfect. That the media you grow up and influence you becomes the media you can grow up to make art about. Things that you grow up with are no longer a part of your cultural upbringing, which you can can then remix and play around with, and refine... Nah, now a corporation owns a part of you until the day you die.

And yeah of course you can take your influences and launder them, but why gives corporations a free ride to own culture, sucking money as a vampire? You made your money. Heck, you can STILL make your money. But back the fuck off of the people your "intellectual property" was crammed onto.


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in reply to @lifning's post:

The way out of this mess is to let entities like Disney keep control of their shit indefinitely, as long as they’re using it as a trademark. The second they let the trademark lapse in any way, the outdated copyrights lapse as well.

It wouldn’t get us Mickey Mouse, but who needs Mickey Mouse really? What we need is for business interests to stop infecting culture in broad ways with narrow concerns. If Mickey is their brand, fine, I guess it makes sense that I don’t get to play with Mickey, but that shouldn’t mean a century of copyright protection for every bit of schlock put to print.

in reply to @Kayin's post:

20 years or 7 years after the death of the original author, whichever happens first, imo. And that's at most. Let people make most of the money they're ever gonna make off of their own work without letting corps swoop in and scoop things up and sell their own copies, but going any further than that is just government enforced cultural monopolies.