1y ago

Discworld rerelease is 'on the cards' according to the original game's director, but is 'a complicated process' because King Charles may own 50% of the IP rights

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"Whenever something closes in the UK, intellectual property rights revert 50% to the original creator and 50% to the Crown
Wtf - how is something like this still law and people are okay with it?
- If they're already okay with IP in general, then it doesn't seem like much of a stretch. The whole thing is imaginary, arbitrary, and couldn't exist without the King's government.
  Why do you want to steal from the king? :-P
  
  Are you seriously defending it? Why don't we attach you along with all monarchs to some cement and drop you in some river? Would be strictly beneficial for society.
It sure would be helpful if there was an automatic release of property if no one does anything with it for 25 years.
- Even if no one does anything, the first book was published 40 years ago. It won't leave copyright for another 62 years.
  Copyright is too long.
  
  Yeah, it should probably be ~15 years, and maybe extendable once if the original author is still alive.
  That's enough to profit from the work, but not so long as to stifle innovation.
I would love a Discworld Trilogy re-release. They are one of the funniest 90s point and click adventures.
It's a million-to-one chance, but it might just work!
- Sounds more like half a million-to-one, maybe they should flip a coin to get a nice round number
We only have rights to the characters, not the games
How does that work? Gregg didn’t create original characters here.
On the cards, not in them???
- British version of the saying.
- Colloquialisms aren't up their wheelhouse.
  
  Or up your alley.
~~king~~ prince charles thanks x

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