A good book on this is: Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity by Lawrence Lessig
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Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 1 month agoThis is the most level headed approach to IP I’ve seen. If you’re not willing to use the property you forfeit it. It’s a common contact for licensing rights for movies that forces a studio to make a movie or lose rights. That way people can’t squat on a licence to prevent others using it.
MunkyNutts@lemmy.world 1 month ago
naught101@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The same thing should apply to private property, especially in cities.
dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 1 month ago
Sony has to make a Spiderman movie every few years even though DVDs of the old ones are still being sold, but Ubisoft can just delete games forever and they can never be played again.