Wonder Woman! The whole world will be waiting for you 20 more years!

It was nearly (74) years ago where the fruits of William Moulton Marston (May 9, 1893 – May 2, 1947)  and his wife's ideas coalesced into a new character for All Star Comics' latest book book. Not nearly content with his invention of the polygraph, Marston was commissioned with creating...

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Dracula is not the biggest sucker in the room

A buncha suckers. Dracula is one of the most ubiquos characters in the public domain. He's done it all. He's had movies , videogames, TV shows. He's been in goldarned breakfast cereal. He's fought Batman and Wolverine. He's been a Duck, a hotel owner. Now, when you think about Dracula, what...

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Limited Times is gonna #BOYCOTTSTARWARS7 and here's why

I'm not going to let this TPP crap pass without at least rattling some cages. RATTLE RATTLE RATTL...

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Happy Birthday is back home

Now, it is silly that the song Happy Birthday to be under copyright. As the songs origins hail from before 1921, there is literally no way for it to still be under copyright still. But for years, Warner has claimed that, as buyers of the company that bought the company that bought the rights from the Hill Sisters, the duo of siblings that composed the song that eventually became Happy Birthday,...

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Zombies Ate my Public Domain!

Behold, the movie that spawned the zombie genre! Now, usually, when you post a full movie like this on your blog, you expect a takedown notice. I certainly can't post E.T. just because we're the same age, because that'd be copyright infringement. But this movie won't get taken down by...

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Why Marvel vs Capcom 4 is never coming

Squishing shoulders! The Marvel vs Capcom series is my favorite series of videogames. Frantic action, screen filling visuals, and recognizable characters all come together to create something truly special. X-Men: Children of the Atom, the first in what would become the series, hit 20 December...

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Limited Time´s suggestions for a better copyright

Alright, I´ve made a few posts about our screwed up copyright. "It is how it is, what do you want?" you may have asked yourself after reading it.Well, well, thank you for asking exactly what I needed to segue into this write up, hypothetical person!  Besides bitchin' and moanin' about our stolen...

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Naked Batman! 5 facts we'd have to live with if Batman where public domain...

This happened. The maximum duration of a copyright used to be 56 years.  As we've discussed, this means that everything made before 58 should have reasonably lapsed into the public domain. In Batman's case this means most of his most well known characters and concepts would be available...

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Talking Points: The Starving Artist

You should have had your ears to the ground, buddy. I get into plenty of comments sections discussing the topic of copyright.  You might be surprised, that some arguments start to form a pattern, and then I feel that, instead of replying to each and every one of those, I´d rather do a column...

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Talking points: Return the Stolen

YOU WOULDN'T STEAL A CAR. I mean, I assume. For all I know you might be a car thief of some sort. I wouldn't have any way of knowing, and frankly if the car does not belong to me and mine, I can't muster up any significant rage. But we all remember that campaign, right? Where stealing  a handbag...

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Joe vs the Nintendo

It seems weird to say, but we're still adjusting to the existence of the World Wide Web. Some of you where born to a world where connecting with everyone else via the internet is normal, but many, many more weren't, including the one who writes this piece. Even those working on the technology business...

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5 weird uses of public domain on gaming

Well, how am I gonna go ahead if I don't mention Knights of the Round every few posts? As my Game jam aproaches, I think more on these stories and characters that so influenced the gaming landscape. Sure, some like Castlevania and God of war do the obvious and pull familiar names...

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