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Re:“Tweet” and the bird logo apparently enter the public domain by Dylan16807 on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @05:41AM (#49623766)
Personally, when companies (or movies, or albums, or books, or games, etc.) become worth enormous amounts of money I think there should be bonus royalties for everyone involved even if they sold their labor for a flat rate.

No, I don't have a good plan for how you'd calculate the distribution. But it would make windfalls more fair to the people that made them happen. And that kind of mechanism could also help fund many open source projects.

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Re:“Tweet” and the bird logo apparently enter the public domain by c22 on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @07:33AM (#49624750)
You can just add this to your contract if you think there's a good shot at success.
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Re:“Tweet” and the bird logo apparently enter the public domain by IAmBroom on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @08:28AM (#49625449)
You can also be a generous person, and share a few pennies from your pocket.
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Re:“Tweet” and the bird logo apparently enter the public domain by rsynnott on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @08:35AM (#49625540)
Apparently, in this case, the license _did_ in fact forbid this usage, which is why they changed logo in the first place: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Oxley#Twitter_Bird_Logo_...
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Re:“Tweet” and the bird logo apparently enter the public domain by Dylan16807 on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @09:36AM (#49626332)
No one wants to deal with a 0.0001% or 0.00001% royalty clause in an individual contact.
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Re:“Tweet” and the bird logo apparently enter the public domain by nolok on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @12:15PM (#49628931)
Ah, come to France, maybe that explains my "sure of myself" answer in the parent comment. 0.0*01% + "à-valoir" is very common and cover the situation described here (eg you get paid a paid royalty, in advance, if the revenue ever exceed you are owed it, but if it's always under you never have to pay back).

Sort of a "I pay you 100€ but if this turns out to be a billion euro thing you get you gold ticket too".

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