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If your product is unique you get a patent and others can not copy it. If you literary product is unique you get a copyright. They are different yet the same.
Just last year Nintendo lost in a lawsuit brought by a medical company for infringing on their patent. (See iLife vs Nintendo) Apache |
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Depends on what publication rights Shakespeare sold in the first place. But if Shakespeare retained rights to what he wrote then — in my opinion — his descendants should have inherited those rights.
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Shakespeare has no living heirs. One daughter was married and had kids I believe but that line stopped with a grandchild. The other (I think) never married and his son Hamnet died as a child.
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Which would be rich because Shakespeare never actually published his plays. The plays were not published until some 7 years after his death when two of the King's Men players collected the plays and took them to a publisher. Imagine where we would be if that hadn't happened!
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I can understand that. The specter that Disney likes to throw up is a pornographic Mickey Mouse if the Mouse ever goes into PD. I certainly think you have a valid concern. There have been some real clunkers in the Sherlock Holmes universe, on the other hand, there has been some really good stuff as well.
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There have been pornographic Mickey Mouse cartoons for years.
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Still, you have a point. Because, oh, the irony: Which is rich, given how Disney has totally warped the public perception of classic fairy tales and other stories. |
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Disney's concern about their IP falling into the public domain is rich considering Walt's empire was built on the public domain works of the brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen and Charles Perrault, though I'm far from the first to point that out. |
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We have had so many wonderful books, stories, and movies based upon "Robin Hood" that would not exist if the original story had been copyrighted forever. |
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Yes, I agree with the points made by other posters about Disney using lots of PD stories and the like. Really I suspect that many authors take the same approach towards things like fanfic that Rowlings does, i.e. turn a blind eye to it as long as they don't try to make money off of it and don't force her to take action. I also don't think that Doyle or Lovecraft's legacies have been harmed by the mass of works written in those two universes. |
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