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Originally Posted by leebase
Oh....I fully I understand “I want free and I want to copy” - it’s not a hard concept.
We’ve long past handing down stories verbally. If you want to write a Slytherine comic it’s because JK Rowling wrote a terrific book that her publishers marketed ... and she sold the rights to great movie producers. Money...money...big money turning those characters into household names. And some guy thinks he gets to create a Slytherin comic because it's “cultural heritage”.
To borrow from my culture...Bitch Please.
Not calling you a name....just borrowing a phrase that means “gurl, you cray cray”
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Well, you managed to pick out the one example in which the author of the source material is still alive and does have a claim to copyright. Kudos.
But what do you say about my example from several posts ago?
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Originally Posted by doubleshuffle
What you are overlooking is the fact that literature is not exclusively about making money. Shakespeare didn't use Holinshed's Chronicles because they were a smash hit, but because they inspired him. Say there was a brilliant writer inspired by Kafka's Metamorphosis. Under current copyright law they can just use the story and do with it as they please. Which is a good thing, because that writer might produce something just as brilliant as Kafka's story, which would benefit all of humanity. But with eternal copyright, our author would have to deal with the Holtzbrinck Group, one of the most powerful corporations in the publishing business, which owned the copyright before Kafka's works became PD. So our author can bury the idea right at the start.
I know your reply: why don't they create their own giant bug? But what if they want to use passages from the actual story, putting them in a different context, and what if precisely this kind of montage was essential for the new story?
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This person isn't doing it to profit from Kafka's success, but because he/she is an artist working in a cultural context. Should they have to deal with the likes of Holtzbrinck, a corporation that sued Project Gutenberg over books out of copyright in the U.S. they uploaded to U.S. servers? Do you think our author would have a snowball's chance in hell if Kafka was still one of Holtzbrinck's cash cows? Or do you really think they should have to pay for using Kafka's text?