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Taking away the hammer would placing the fanwork into public domain. Here, we are specifically destroying the hammer as a punishment.
by ClumsyPilot 3y ago
Taking away the hammer would placing the fanwork into public domain.
Here, we are specifically destroying the hammer as a punishment.
- runeofdoom 3y agoIt is, for all practical purposes. The court posted the whole thing in an official document.
- ceejayoz 3y agoIt woudl be odd for the court to resolve a copyright infringement case by more copyright infringement. It's not theirs to put in the public domain; it's the Tolkien estate's IP.