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Like I said before that's why the Cthulhu Mythos is the best fandom; Most of H.P. Lovecraft's and C.A. Smith's stuff is public domain

The appropriation part is how the IP is being handled. They're shohorning what are basically a bunch of [expletive deleted] comittee-written fanfics into the continuity while at the same time better fanworks by non-associated people who actually care about the setting remain marginalized and...

Athleticism has never been something that I've associated with businessmen. However I get what you're trying to say; they often have the same "alpha male"‡ mentality as the stereotypical athlete. However I think that's more commonly the case only at the upper levels of management and that the...

This is basically the same thing that I said about how when you buy brand name you're paying for a meaningless logo. What you've described sounds a little bit like hammering one nail from the ship of Theseus into a random dinghy and calling it the Ship of Theseus

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...

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