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Re:Love Zombies? Thank the Public Domain by onion2k on Friday February 28, 2020 @01:41AM (#22440971)
It wouldn't be so much that thousands of people make a Mario game (people do that already) and Nintendo gets screwed as much as EA makes a Mario game and and uses the IP without paying Nintendo anything.

EA being able to freely make "Battlefield Mushroom Kingdom III: Micropayments Edition" would not be a good thing.

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Re:Love Zombies? Thank the Public Domain by danbolt on Friday February 28, 2020 @03:48AM (#22441451)
Nintendo (or better yet, and indie developer) remaking EA's public domain works into better products would be a great thing.
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Re:Love Zombies? Thank the Public Domain by SkyBelow on Friday February 28, 2020 @09:43AM (#22443059)
Why would it not be a good thing? Every game involves people using public domain material and not paying the entity who would've owned it. Imagine if every game with dragons had to pay whomever currently held the IP for dragons, that wouldn't be good.
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