> Essentially, millions of workers hired to maintain the less creative recreation/maintenance of these IPs would be reshuffled and or lost. The other side of t

> Essentially, millions of workers hired to maintain the less creative recreation/maintenance of these IPs would be reshuffled and or lost. The other side of that coin is millions of workers now available for new and original projects that have to take real chances and break new ground to get off the ground. > Thus, the way fans consume media and experience it will change completely as well. Should we prevent creators from selling their copyrights as well, or do we simply make the "canonical" rights non transferable in that case? > but it would certainly be a different world with different rules and different expectations from fans and audiences. Vaudeville and burlesque operated under those rules. Audiences didn't seem to mind. "Who's on first" was not an original act.