he's right you know
He's right you know
Grayson Flores
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Logan Flores
What would Pokemon look like without the perversion of copyright?
Continuing with Pokemon as an example, let's imagine for a minute that copyright worked the way a modern researcher determined would be mathematically optimal - 15 years automatically with no renewal.
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It may seem crazy, but let's roll with it.
Copyright begins at publication. For Pokemon, this was 1996 - but not all of Pokemon. Some elements did not premiere until later. Therefore, certain elements would enter the public domain later than others. For example:
1996 - Pokemon Red and Blue
2000 - Pokemon Gold and Silver
2003 - Pokemon Ruby and Saphire
Hypothetically, these ideas would enter public domain 15 years later, in:
2011 - All 150 Pokemon
2015 - 235 Pokemon
2018 - All Pokemon from Ruby and Saphire
This means that, by 2018, anyone could publish their own Pokemon using every character, planet, concept from the original games (like Red and Blue, Pokemon Snap, and Stadium) and have it available for sale on the shelves of Gamestop. And any producer with the funds could greenlight any game.
Just like that, suddenly entertainment business would need to compete to bring us the best possible Pokemon they could. Bethesda, Sony, Disney would all be sending scripts to Veronica Taylor and Ikue Otani - tripping over themselves to write the best story they could create - trying to convince them to take the role. Copies sent off to Satoshi for that incredibly valuable "author approved" signature.
Robert Peterson
NINTENDOOOOOOOO
Wyatt Edwards
What did we get in 2018 instead? Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! And everybody got tricked into spending $60 for it.
Which version of 2018 would you prefer? As it is, Nintendo can offer whatever quality they want - even if it's garbage. They have a monopoly on the property. They could decided tomorrow that they don't want any more new Pokemon. They could sit on the property for 50 years, publishing nothing - no new books, films, games, nothing - and there's not a thing we could do about it. A cornerstone of our culture...complete control.
Wouldn't this be unfair to Satoshi and original creators? No. Fifteen years is a long time.
>By 2018, Nintendo's annual income was $1.79 BILLION
nintendo.co.jp
Not bad...an entire generation of fans had thanked them for adding to our culture by giving them a huge pile of money. And, since the property would be free to anyone there would be nothing stopping Nintendo from continuing to sell stories from the world they created. As a bonus, anything with its name attached would always have the advantage in game sales.
Another example to look at would be J.K. Rowling. Fifteen years after she published Sorceror's Stone, Rowling was already so tired of being a billionaire
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Elijah Brooks
>when Facebook comments present more cogent arguments about vidya than Yea Forums
Parker Russell
Bottom one is souless as fuck and with bad taste for art, design, lighting and whatever the words “visual expression” means.
It’s disgusting to look at.
Jaxon Collins
>faceless corporation produces soul
>one guy working on a passion project produces soulless
Brayden Bell
HIRE
James Torres
Yeah I'm not reading that.
Noah Bell
>funko pop zelda is soul
lmao
Brayden Harris
>Expecting coherent arguments from an image board that freaks the fuck out at a microscopic gay flag in the background of a comic based off an indy game no one cares about anymore
Jaxson Parker
There is an extremely easy way to fix copyright law, banking/lending/bankruptcy problems, and the mental health crisis in the US all while fostering a community outside of people's phones.
The solution, of course, is to legalize and allow the open operation of suicide booths ala Futurama.
Suddenly the notion that copyright should last for an extended period of time diminishes once you realize people can just say "fuck it, I'm done".
Similarly lenders are less likely to make risks and bankruptcy restrictions become almost pointless which would completely upend the notion that people can just sit back and place a bet hoping that the person fails so that they can collect their other assets.
James Thomas
did you know Popeye is public domain in every country except the USA
Ryan Wilson
Hudson Perez
>Company makes game from scratch
>One guy uses premade assets
Woooooooo
Levi Lopez
>Its another guy who bought unreal engine assets and put a nintendo character with them
Jonathan Clark
Julian Ward
Stylized>Realism
One takes creativity, imagination, vision, and boldness the other lacks all of the mentioned and could only be seen as repetitive as a mechanical watch.
Hudson Reyes
this board is full of complete idiots
Mason Hughes
>an entire game, art style and engine from scratch
>pre made assets for a single screenshot
Really makes you think.
Levi Rogers
You're just now realizing it?
Michael Wright
NINTENDO
HIRE THIDSGV efdsv
Austin Jackson
Copyright, in modern times, has been perverted so extensively that it now causes the opposite of what it was originally intended to.
So here is how it started, way back in 1790:
>The Congress shall have Power...to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
As you can see, the intent of copyright was to "promote the progress of science and useful arts" which includes art like painting, music, and film. By granting ownership of an idea, the creator of that idea is able to profit off of it. This, in turn, creates a financial incentive for artists to create new ideas.
But, unlike physical property, there is no practical reason for "intellectual property" to be protected. Physical property, for example, is a shirt. It is important to know who a shirt belongs to. If you and me disagree about who owns a shirt, there's a problem because only one of us can wear the shirt. If we both tried it would tear in half. Physical property is a house. If we disagree about who owns a house, we need to find the answer. We can't both live there with our families, setting our own schedules. Thus, shirts and houses are physical property that need to be protected by law.
Intellectual property is different because an idea can be shared. I can tell you the idea of a superhero I had, and I don't lose an ounce of it. A thousand people can have the same idea and it does not break. It does not need to be protected.
Thus, the sole purpose of granting ownership to an idea is to "promote the progress of science and useful arts." By offering ownership to ideas, Congress hopes that I will make my idea a reality by writing a story, making a film etc. - thus adding to the commonwealth that we all enjoy. So does modern copyright do this? Yes, sometimes...but it usually does the opposite instead.
Connor Long
Nintendo, same as Apple, is a cult.
James Smith
Facebook, Reddit and even Youtube comments have better discussions of games than Yea Forums does.
Joseph Morgan
based
Benjamin Russell
Right about what?
Brandon Diaz
HIRE
Kevin Anderson
>Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu!
I thought it would be complete shit but my friend bought it and it's actually not bad. It's a lot more pokemony than I was expecting.
Benjamin Harris
While I didn't buy this game and have no problem with people criticizing it, context is important, Link's Awakening is a full game, that remade OoT thing is barely a demo, just a few maps remade on a modern engine, it's not a full game and it will never be so.
Robert Martinez
maybe not youtube though
Robert Miller
hire the guy that downloaded unreal and asset flipped a scene?
Henry Flores
If you think that's a long text, you might have a learning disability.
Zachary Morris
THIS
Joseph Rivera
So is the top
Levi Rogers
Every time I see that fucking picture Yea Forums says the exacts same shit you virgins
Leo Flores
MAN
Ryan Reyes
>thread not full of NINTENDOOOOOOO
You people are shit
Henry Russell
they both look like shit
Alexander Reed
saaaaaaaaaaaaaauce
Cooper Brooks
imagine...
Nathaniel King
can you show us an example that in your opinion doesn't look like shit?
Matthew Kelly
yeah google Zelda: A Link to the Past
Josiah Murphy
>This autist whining about copyright laws again
JUST make your own ideas. It's not that hard retard, whining for months online about how you should legally be allowed to steal other peoples creations for profit is fucking retard
Caleb Garcia
Better check that cuck cage user, thing it's come loose.