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Plus it makes intuitive sense to be paid more for multipke performances on tour than for one performance in a studio

"...Illusions Mister Anderson. Vagaries of perception..."

The issue isn't and wasn't jocks per se, it's anyone with an "alpha male"‡ type personality, and that can be nearly anyone, it is just that this character flaw is traditionally overrepresented in popular sports ‡ie. meathead-douchebag

I agree, Big Bang Theory sucked

Geek media was watered down to make it palatable to the masses. Also, meatheads and bullies are making a big comeback

Have you seen Mel Brooks' version of Dracula?

I'm pretty sure most creators live more than 5 years after publishing a work on average

They shouldn't. No other profession works that way. They should be paid once for each job like a mechanic or an electrician. And certainly not for 70 years after they're dead unless their ghost is haunting the Earth still doing the job for those 70 years. Why should I care about Henry Ford's...

Yes it is, hence the qualifier "functionally"

The IP protections for gizmos only last 21 years IIRC. The IP protections for film, music, and written works last functionally forever

This I agree with. As long as it doesn't apply to infringement without monetary gain, and as long as the author is a person who is alive and not some guy who's been dead for 16 years or a corporate comittee designed to cancel out the humanity of its individual members The intent of copyright...

Agreed. These people who are saying that these things wouldn't be viable anymore, what they really mean is that they wouldn't be viable as a profession or as a sector of the economy. They would still be viable in the only way that is important; there would still be enough products available to...

Anime Tie-In - Yu-Gi-Oh/Beyblade/Pokenon style adventures in a world that revolves around whatever your group's favorite non-rpg game is Are we talking more of a "now people can copy spellbooks and magic scrolls on the cheap" type thing, or more of a Discworld style "now newspapers are a...

So what you're trying to say is that that explosion in the number of works is due to IP protections and not the fact that most people* in the time period you specified were either illiterate or nearly so (and even the folks who weren't had to write most things by hand with a dip pen). It's the...

Agreed. Ironically I think that a lot of the same people who make arguments like this - that we need IP protections to get bug budget movies, and the pop music industry, and stufd like that - are the same people who criticize AI for being soulless. I don't think they're really concerned about...

There was a South Park Christmas special where Canada was Oz

Feature films are overrated, and novels don't require a large monetary investment

Double Isekai - Characters from a magical otherworld are suddenly transported to a different magical otherworld Swords Into Plowshares - Villain protagonist campaign where the characters must stop an epic level Apostle of Peace* from developing an epic spell to thanos snap all weapons out of...

Farenheit 420 - Paranoia. The PCs are conscripted as narcotics officers and sent to raid the residences of several prominent citizens suspected of not taking their mandatory narcotics

If Campbell's Soup had had brand protection in the 60's we wouldn't have the work of Andy Warhol. I'm 90% sure he used their logo without permission in his most famous piece