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For every good Winnie the Pooh story, there will be a hundred acres of bad stories and questionable-taste material made for it. Expect the furries to have lots
by gjsman-1000 5y ago
For every good Winnie the Pooh story, there will be a hundred acres of bad stories and questionable-taste material made for it.
Expect the furries to have lots of fun with this. Is that innovation? Things are always more nuanced than they appear.
- spoonjim 5y agoThe furries can and do write Winnie the Pooh stories today. Nobody will stop them because those stories didn't have any sizable income potential to begin with. They live on furry web sites that don't catch the attention of IP lawyers. What public domain enables is for-profit adaptations of Winnie the Pooh.
- Kaze404 5y agoThings you personally dislike are innovation as well.
- nicoburns 5y ago> Is that innovation? Well, yes. People associate innovation with good new ideas, but the process inevitably involves a lot of bad ones.
- shash 5y agoOf course it is! Look at fairy tales, Robin Hood stories or Aesop's fables. Not every adaptation is good, but every now and then, you end up with a classic. What's annoying is how often companies like Disney take a public domain work, make an interesting derivative and then turn around and lobby to make it impossible for their derivatives to enter the public domain. They did, after all, benefit from the same public domain...