designbum speaks...
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- tangereen0
i agree with this sort of gesture, and i think that current copyright laws stifle creativity and growth.
i once heard of a children's program that had homer simpson on a tv in the background, and they were told to either reshoot their video or pay $30,000 for the rights to have homer in their video in the background for 10 seconds. would you pay $30k for 10 seconds of homer in the background of your video? they had to go back into production because of this.
on the other hand, unfortunately, there are people who would steal designs wholesale and call it their own.
there's got to be some sort of balance between the two of them. we should still try and maintain a culture of creating art for the public domain. i mean, look at disney -- they made their fortune rehashing other people's stories -- cinderella, little mermaid, aladdin, mulan, etc. but their work is probably responsible for the very existence of the animation industry.