I'm just glad all the relevant works were out of copyright by the time you wrote A Study in Emerald and sad you're banned from selling a modern day version of that kind of cross-IP pastiche
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Though the Conan Doyle estate DID try to sue the filmmakers of “Enola Holmes” over Copyright shenanigans… and Arkham House tries to pretend they own Lovecraft’s work… so even older work gets caught up in over-zealous litigation
Yeah I like having a consistent opposition to that kind of thing rather than having to side with that kind of people when the work is still under copyright
Definitely a fan of author’s rights (I’m a writer too!) but not corporate rights. Copyright is/was an incentive to create, after all, not a perpetual grant
The fun of that was that everyone who made the original work was dead. I'd hate to upset living creators in the way that Cervantes and Dickens (among others) were upset as people created knock-offs of their characters while they were publishing.
stopping someone making money from something and banning it entirely are different things, there's a reason archive of our own exists and is entirely non-profit. you're not allowed to share commissions or tip links on there for your own protection.
Well except in the sense that works are created for financial reasons - if profiting from the sale of fantasy works was banned we'd likely have never gotten most of your work, even if you could technically have written and shared it for free
This tells me you don't really understand why people create. And I say this AS A CREATOR. Even if no one Bought Redshift (and precious few have) I would still have made it.
People create because they want to. Not because they can get rich. Attaining wealth is a side benefit.
Huh usually I'm the one making that argument as part of wanting to abolish copyright altogether - I just want fanfic on an equal footing with regular fic, whatever footing we decide that should be
I don't know if you've heard of or read Francis Spufford's The Stone Table (you liked TCTBB?). It's glorious, and quite different from The Problem of Susan - looking not so much to remedy as to reimagine Lewis's work from a modern Anglican perspective, with an uncanny ear for language and tone.
It's okay, I suppose. But C.S. Lewis has been dead since before I was born. I wouldn't exactly feel like there was a major injustice being done with other people publishing stuff in the Narnia universe. It's ridiculous the way the heirs of authors clutch to the rights for decades
The worst example being Disney of course, but Margaret Mitchells' heirs are almost as bad. Bad enough that the book is a piece of white supremacist trash, but even worse that they continue to make bucks from a love song to slavery.
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That's a consequence of how copyright law works, and copyright lasts well past an author's death
People create because they want to. Not because they can get rich. Attaining wealth is a side benefit.