So, all of you have the opinion, that in SR 207x, there is no law protection a creator: If you write a book or novel, you dont have the right to sell or publish it? If you paint something, it is not yours. Literally every creative work you create, is owned by the corporation, because sometime between now and then every government on the world decided to expropriate every creator on the planet.
aint gonna happen!
This is not the first BS published in SR-Sourcebooks and the only argument here is "you comparing the real world to a fictional world blabla" which is rather ridiculous. Sure I compare the real world with the Shadowrun background because Shadowrun strifes to be a world based on reality.
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Tycho
No on went to the extent to which you are going. This is what we are saying:
1) In the current world, corporations are often looking for ways to either prevent works from going into the public domain in the first place or to find ways to remove some works from the public domain.
2) Given the strong corporate interest in owning copyrights, it is reasonable to extrapolate that when corporations have more political power than they do now, they will make further assaults on the concept of "public domain."
3) Anytime corporations crack down on copyright, there is a response from the market to create new avenues for obtaining the restricted goods, even if they are selling or distributing goods without the permission of the copyright holder. So you get piracy.
4) If corporations pull things out of public domain, they would likely go after pieces that still have contemporary appeal, i.e., works deemed classics.
5) In a vast marketplace, where anyone can instantly distribute their work, the challenge becomes getting your work noticed. In
Attitude, Rodregaz chose to get her work noticed by packaging it with unlicensed versions of works that had been in the public domain, but were taken out of it. These are the "illegal avenues" the book refers to.
6) No one is saying you don't have the right to sell or publish your work. People in the Sixth World have the same right to do that as people do now. But you'll notice that a lot of people still go with a publisher instead of self-publishing, because it can be good to have the infrastructure of a publisher at your disposal, and going with a publisher is a good way to get traffic to your work. That's why Rodregaz did what she did, and Horizon didn't like it.
Jason H.