Bill Willingham releases Fables into the public domain.

[darjr]

Bill Willingham releases Fables into the public domain.

Willingham Sends Fables Into the Public Domain

Here, below, is the press release I sent out today to explain what I did and why.

billwillingham.substack.com

 

[Parmandur]

Wonder what the legality of this is.

Can't help any time I hear about Willingham but think of his weird misogynistic rant a few years back, and the role he played in the Silver Princess drama and what happened to Darlene at TSR...but that's not terribly material to this.

 

[Sacrosanct]

Interesting to see how that works out. I'm not a lawyer, so I have no idea what sorts of approach DC will take. Willingham has always been one of my top 5 D&D artists, largely because Mike Ploog is one of my all time favorite artists and their styles are similar

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Wonder what the legality of this is.

Can't help any time I hear about Willingham but think of his weird misogynistic rant a few years back, and the role he played in the Silver Princess drama and what happened to Darlene at TSR...but that's not terribly material to this.

Yikes!

 

[Parmandur]

Yikes!

Yeah, knowing about his Bad News Bears history does color my reading of his account of how mean DC has been to him (it is quite one sided), though I am more than willing to believe that Warner-Discovery era DC is impossible to work with too.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Yeah, knowing about his Bad News Bears history does color my reading of his account of how mean DC has been to him (it is quite one sided), though I am more than willing to believe that Warner-Discovery era DC is impossible to work with too.

Yeah sounds more likely to be a comedy of jerks than anything else lol

 

[Reynard]

Bill Willingham releases Fables into the public domain.

Willingham Sends Fables Into the Public Domain

Here, below, is the press release I sent out today to explain what I did and why.

billwillingham.substack.com

Holy crap.

 

[Umbran]

You may start writing your games....... now!

 

[MoonSong]

You may start writing your games....... now!

I might start modelling minis and action figures to 3d print.

 

[overgeeked]

That’s going to be interesting. Lots of people going to find out real quick that they don’t know enough about trademark and copyright.

DC owns the trademark on the name. DC owns the artwork (almost certainly). Bill owns the characters, words, and stories.