Post #2093619

2026-04-22 14:19 UTC

I'm going to hard disagree on NC. If the original publisher decided to dump their IP, and someone else has a good enough idea to make money off of it, they absolutely should. BY-SA gets you the same vibe and encourages the new IP to keep making new content and allows others to do the same.

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@helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 2026-04-22 16:46

I agree, if an IP is abandoned then someone else should be allowed to do something with it. For this post I was talking about the game that was already made and distributed, not just the idea or characters. I'll use Mario Kart 1 for example, if Nintendo doesn't sell that game anymore, then the game is made publicly available. If the IP is still in use that A) doesn't exclude Mario Kart 1 form becoming available, B) doesn't allow competitors to sell modern Mario Kart games (trademark) and C) prevents someone from taking a 30 year old game and just reselling it on their store. IPs are much more messy to handle, as it's less a final product and more of a concept. Creative rights should stay with the creative people not a publisher. If Nintendo decides to drop Mario, but the actual creator of Mario still wants to work with a different publisher, they should be able to do that before the IP becomes freely available for anyone to take over.

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