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<blockquote data-quote="Sword of Spirit" data-source="post: 7689863" data-attributes="member: 6677017">Yes, that's exactly what I'm suggesting. Creators of original works (as much as anything can be original) deserve both reasonable compensation and credit given. An initial period of control over what others do with their work may be necessary to help them acquire that. Beyond that point, it is absurd for them to think that they should control intellectual property (the very idea is new) in perpetuity. Nobody really owns information. We agree as a current society to create such a construct, ostensibly and originally for the benefit of the artists and society, but a lot of the times it serves neither anymore.I do create my own stuff. And you know what I want from it? Credit given, and a reasonable amount of any wealth that may be generated through it. I don't want someone else trying to pass it off as their own.But if someone else wants to take it and go with it and use it in their own materials once it is established that I am the creator of the original content? Sure. And after a reasonable time I think it would be unreasonable to expect people to hunt me down and pay me for it. A couple decades, maybe a bit more, and then just release it into the wild.Honestly, after long enough (several decades or so) I don't even care if credit is given anymore. At that point there is a record out there of who made it, and anyone who wants to find it out can find it out.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sword of Spirit, post: 7689863, member: 6677017"] Yes, that's exactly what I'm suggesting. Creators of original works (as much as anything can be original) deserve both reasonable compensation and credit given. An initial period of control over what others do with their work may be necessary to help them acquire that. Beyond that point, it is absurd for them to think that they should control intellectual property (the very idea is new) in perpetuity. Nobody really owns information. We agree as a current society to create such a construct, ostensibly and originally for the benefit of the artists and society, but a lot of the times it serves neither anymore. I do create my own stuff. And you know what I want from it? Credit given, and a reasonable amount of any wealth that may be generated through it. I don't want someone else trying to pass it off as their own. But if someone else wants to take it and go with it and use it in their own materials once it is established that I am the creator of the original content? Sure. And after a reasonable time I think it would be unreasonable to expect people to hunt me down and pay me for it. A couple decades, maybe a bit more, and then just release it into the wild. Honestly, after long enough (several decades or so) I don't even care if credit is given anymore. At that point there is a record out there of who made it, and anyone who wants to find it out can find it out. [/QUOTE]

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