Willingham Sends Fables into the Public Domain

Re:Willingham Sends Fables into the Public Domain by kibwen on Friday September 15, 2023 @08:48AM (#37522147)

That only works if every single publisher and studio are participating in an anticompetitive cabal who are all colluding to prevent the work from being bought, in which case you have bigger problems to worry about.

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Re:Willingham Sends Fables into the Public Domain by SamoyedFurFluff on Friday September 15, 2023 @09:45AM (#37522871)

lol, lmao, even. What do you think studios are doing right now prompting huge strikes among actors and writers in Hollywood?

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Re:Willingham Sends Fables into the Public Domain by kibwen on Friday September 15, 2023 @12:10PM (#37525262)

And yet that has nothing to do with the current length of copyright, so I think you're simply proving my point?

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Re:Willingham Sends Fables into the Public Domain by belenos46 on Friday September 15, 2023 @01:42PM (#37526606)

I think he's pointing out that an anticompetitive cabal already exists, so assuming it would continue to follow anticompetitive practices is not a leap of any kind.

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Re:Willingham Sends Fables into the Public Domain by brightlancer on Friday September 15, 2023 @05:15PM (#37529217)

> I think he's pointing out that an anticompetitive cabal already exists,

Of course, they're called _unions_, which prevent companies from hiring or contracting anyone who isn't part of their cabal -- I mean union.

Disney and Comcast and WB/Discovery are _competitors_ who would cut each other's throats for a nickel. Would they collude for profit? Sure, but they treat this as a zero-sum game, so they don't want to help their competition too much.

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Re:Willingham Sends Fables into the Public Domain by SamoyedFurFluff on Sunday September 17, 2023 @10:08AM (#37545228)

No, the studios are explicitly colluding in order not to give into the writers and actors unions demands.

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