DC Agrees To Allow Use Of Superman Logo For Memorial Statue

[Thaluikhain]

well tecnically superman is so old that it should aready be public ip however large companies have managed to avoid regular ip laws by investing more money than average person could. thats why disney for example still holds rights for mickey the mouse despite it being over 100 year old

Is it not that, technically, Disney plays by the same rules as everyone else, they just happen to be the ones to write the rules to keep their mouse?

 

[Alterego-X]

Is it not that, technically, Disney plays by the same rules as everyone else, they just happen to be the ones to write the rules to keep their mouse?

Don't forget that "the same rules" can have different consequences for different parties. They write the rules in a way that they benefit from it the most at the expense of others.

To imply that Disney gets the same benefit from copyright as any creator, is like saying that gay people get the same privileges from marriege law as straight people - after all, they are both equally allowed to marry a member of the opposite sex!

Sure, nowadays instead of 26 years of copyright over their respective works, every creator gets full lifetime + 70 years of copyright, and a wide range of authorities over censoring other people's transformative works.

Do you really think that this change has the same meaning for a huge corporation that just gained a century's worth of popular culture to be controlled, as for an upcoming obscure novelist, musician or indie game dev, who got forbidden from building up from a century's worth of pop culture behind him, and has to carefully watch his step to say clear of these corporations' "property"?

 

[FalloutJack]

*Comes in again*

Looks like they heard me talking. Okay, from now on when DC acts up, invoke Batman to make them behave. Batman always wins.

 

[Artemicion]

Good guy DC for allowing them to use the logo.

 

[weirdee]

"flexible" = "alright stop twisting my arm, uncle, uncle!"

 

[Something Amyss]

So they agreed to it? Great! Nice to see this got a happy ending. Sure, I wasn't too peeved with them personally for not agreeing to do something they'd never said, or even hinted, that they'd do in the first place. Using the Superman logo for heartwarming stuff is nice, but not something everyone automatically has the right to do. But it's nice to see that DC decided to do the right thing.

I'm not sure anyone thought they had the right to do it. They sought permission for the statue, after all.