Quote (Plaguefear @ Mar 15 2018 03:15pm)

I personally think if a copyright is out of use for more than 5 years it should enter the public domain, this flow of muse into the public domain will feed greater creativity and better art over time.
It would be like a new renaissance, look at how much greatness comes from the current tiny public domain already, pretty much everything that made disney famous before they started making original work and copyrighting all of it, robbin hood, king arthur, all the classics..
Imagine if that pool included all the lost copyrights that went to huge corporations just buying up defunct smaller ones then sitting on it forever..
Most of the games i played as a kid no longer exist and will never be seen again because they are abandoned because the current owner probably has never heard of the content and may even be unaware they own it.

Quote (Plaguefear @ Mar 18 2018 07:36pm)

Ink is a smart guy.

Quote (TCassa89 @ Mar 20 2018 01:14am)

The problem with this question is it usually is not the creator who owns the content. It's the company that publishes the content who ultimately owns it

Quote (Plaguefear @ Mar 19 2018 03:03pm)

This is one of the things i hate most about copyright, back in the old days the people with talent made things and were recognised as the owner and creator of said thing.
These days people with talent are hired as contractors with no rights to their own work, leads to things like activision owning all the rights to diablo when none of them had anything to do with it, and the creator of diablo making a terraria clone by himself just so that he can have something he owns.

Quote (tonerbond @ Apr 5 2018 10:19am)

Whats the terraria clone?

Quote (Plaguefear @ Apr 4 2018 03:30pm)

It lurks below, check it out in steam.