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I would hypothesize that because the characters are already borrowed, it is difficult to see the issue in the same light as someone who has created their own characters and worlds.
Much as how RTD can step down from Doctor Who and watch the show go in a new direction. He loved the characters and he changed them, but they were never really his.
I would hypothesize that because the characters are already borrowed, it is difficult to see the issue in the same light as someone who has created their own characters and worlds.
Much as how RTD can step down from Doctor Who and watch the show go in a new direction. He loved the characters and he changed them, but they were never really his.
Doctor Who is actually a very good example. Who does the Doctor belong to? I don't think you can reasonably say he belongs to any single individual. Having been around for four decades, played by a dozen actors, written for by dozens of writers, he's become part of culture as a whole. The idea that one person (or more likely, corporation) somewhere should forevermore be able to decide who can publish something about the Doctor and who can't is ridiculous.
Or Mickey Mouse. The character is culturally omnipresent, he's been around for over eighty years, Walt Disney has been dead for nearly fifty years. Why should some corporate entity get to dictate who gets to make Mickey Mouse cartoons?