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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8344158" data-attributes="member: 6704184">Fair enough. One thing I'd note is that Warner doesn't own Lord of The Rings, they have the rights to make movies and video games with it. The ownership is still solidly in the hands of the Tolkien Estate. I personally think it should be public domain by now, but that's only tangentially related to the other thing. Star Wars is a fun example, because the new movies have some bright points, but very few people love all three movies, far as I can tell, and I doubt anyone (even Abrams, Johnson, Kennedy, etc) would argue that the trilogy would have been worse if Lucas had given it to Filoni to make with Lucas' general oversight. Hell, I'd say that the prequels are better, and I enjoyed the first 2 movies of the sequels and still love the characters introduced, but I'd definitely posit that Lucas would have made a better trilogy. Especially if he learned from the prequels and made sure that he had strong willed editors and such working with him rather than basically doing it all himself. The point of which is, sure, I love the MCU movies. But I don't think it's true that they are better than what would be made if all of those characters that are older than 30 years old were in the public domain, and the remainder were owned by their creators. Very different, sure, but not better. In fact, if not for the consolidation of IP, hollywood wouldn't be able to just constantly dip into the same IP all the time, because others would have the same access to most of it, so they'd have to try to present something audiences wouldn't have watched twice last year from 2 different studios.</blockquote>

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