After a reasonable period, yes. When a design, character, idea, enters public consciousness, it contributes and (hopefully) enlightens the community. While it s

After a reasonable period, yes. When a design, character, idea, enters public consciousness, it contributes and (hopefully) enlightens the community. While it should be easy and inexpensive for you to introduce that and gain from it early on, it should become more expensive as you gain more from it, and as it gains more value to the community. So much IP is deeply ingrained in our culture and is owned seemingly indefinitely by corporations. And there are plenty of examples of those corporations abusing their legal ownership to prevent the public from enjoying its adoption of that property.