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Tag Archives: Creators
Sunshine and Rainbows
I like happy endings. I like it when the guy gets the girl. Or the girl gets the guy. When the monster is killed and the day is saved. I like it when the bad guy gets his just desserts, and our heroes not only triumph, but they come out stronger for it. This is [...]
Posted in Blog Also tagged Bummer, Civilizations, Dissatisfaction, False Choice, Galaxy, Happy Endings, Just Desserts, Kick Ass, Mass Effect, New Era, Popcorn, Prosperity, Reapers, Saga, Shades, Space Operas, Target Audience, Two Games, Virtue 6 Comments
Copywrong, part 2
My last post about copyright / trademark law brought in a surprising amount of traffic. It’s a complicated issue, and too often, people seem to think that copyright / trademark should be an All or Nothing affair. Either you should own the rights to something you created forever. Or you should never own them. This [...]
Posted in Blog, Comic Books, Movies, Writing Also tagged Amount Of Traffic, Bonus, Creativity, False Dilemma, Grandchildren, Hard Time, Harry Potter, Intellectual Property, J K Rowling, Laurels, Notion, Paycheck, Public Domain, Rest Of My Life, Right This Moment, Royalties, Stagnation, Thirty Years, Trademark Law 1 Comment
Copywrong
It’s time to admit that the concept of copyright has gone horribly, horribly wrong. In theory, copyright is there to protect artists and creators, to allow them to make money off their work, and to encourage creativity. In practice, it just leads to stagnation and to corporations profiting off of characters they simply are fortunate [...]
Posted in Blog, Comic Books, Movies, Writing Also tagged Batman, Capable Writers, Comic Book, Commercial Success, Corporations, Creativity, Decades, Dilemma, Expiration Date, Fact Of The Matter, Franchises, Increasing Sales, James Bond, Machine Dc, Profits, Reboot, Spider Man, Spider Man Movie, Stagnation, Superman, Telling A Good Story, Whim 7 Comments
Q&A FRIDAY