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Originally Posted by Jellby
Hmm... You lose exclusivity on your creations, but you can freely use characters and stories first imagined by someone else... I think it's the same.
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But it's not a easily measurable gain with copyright. An individual author can use those "now available" properties for new stories, but there's no guarantee that the new stories will sell.
Whereas you can see how much of you process will benefit economically from not having to pay a patent royalty... this is one reason for so much cross licensing of patents. What you gain in royalties on one hand you lose paying royalties on the other. If the values roughly balance, it's cheaper to just cross license....