Re:How Is NordVPN Unblocking Disney+?
by Retric on Friday November 29, 2019 @10:25PM
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Nobody owns content as ownership does not expire. People are incentivized to create content with a limited monopoly of finite duration. However, this means when they fail to licence it and thus chose to forgo revenue there is zero moral obligation to respect the monopoly.
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Re:How Is NordVPN Unblocking Disney+?
by millstone on Saturday November 30, 2019 @01:02AM
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Watterson famously refused to license Calvin and Hobbes. That does not give you the moral right to start selling C&H branded content.
Re:How Is NordVPN Unblocking Disney+?
by kungtotte on Saturday November 30, 2019 @02:34AM
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Jumping from pirating for personal consumption to selling someone else's IP is a bit much, don't you think?
It’s kind of an interesting edge case.
Trademarks don’t have set expiration dates, yet 1/4 of Disney’s toys are for someone else’s original IP. Snow White, Peter Pan, etc and nobody seems to have a problem with this. In fact the oldest US trademark in use fall under the same heading with a Biblical figure Samson wrestling a lion.
And in fact Trademarks do go away without Defence. Which means they can be abandoned at which point it’s fine to use em.