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>the stuff about Sherlock Holmes vs Superman et al
The point is that having no legal works that are not controlled by a central authority does not make it simpler.
>The biggest problem with DC and Marvel is that there is no actual "base" foundation one can refer to if you want to say that "This is Spider-Man" or "This is Aquaman".
For Spider-Man it would be quite easy to just look at Ditko's stories. For Aquaman it isn't easy because nobody gives a flying fuck about Golden Age Aquaman, and he slowly evolved into being even more of a ripoff of Namor than he originally was.
>Who said no one wants to read anything unless it's directly related to a previous identity?
>That's sort-of what you're implying when you stated that you cannot create certain stories and works unless you're allowed access to another's property.
No, what I'm implying is that if I'm FW Murnau and I have these great ideas for a film based on a novel by Bram Stoker, I should be allowed to execute that vision without getting sued and having my film buried for decades and almost entirely lost to time. Yes, I could make other movies instead, but I have ideas for this movie, and I should be allowed to make it.
>Doubt it as we can look at Japan and see works like Bleach, Death Note, and Dragon Ball (All series published under Shounen Jump, but are owned by their respective creators) were all demanded to be changed or continue beyond the original story planned.
Okay, then we can look at Steve Ditko, who essentially quit the big companies, or at least doing any actual work he cared about for them, and went off to do independent work for the rest of his life, even though it made him almost no money, and he could have made much more if he just continued writing Spider-Man. He seemed to care about Spider-Man, and didn't like that Stan Lee kept fucking with it, so he quit right on a cliffhanger, just before revealing a long term mystery (the Green Goblin's identity), without telling anybody. If he had the rights, he probably would have wanted to finish his story, and to finally do it the way he wanted to do it, from the comfort of his apartment, where he produced all his independent work after he quit the big corporations. But he didn't have the rights, so we never got that story.
Decades later, he would admit that the guy who replaced him, John Romita, guessed the Green Goblin's identity correctly. But for like 45 years, everyone including Romita second guessed it and wasn't sure.
You have also raised a further point that publishers are scummy and will use any methods they can to be scummy. I do agree with that point.
>Japan already does that, and, as you can see already in this thread, people are still complaining about the lacking variety in material.
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