I cant wait for the Gilgamesh Cinematic Universe
IPfication of culture and its consequences is a disaster to mankind
I feel like that referring to series as IP leads people to a better analysis to why their favorite series is going down the shitter.
It's not simply that the writer was untalented, it's because for the corporation that owns the IP, the IP exists to profit them and they would actively try to snuff it from existence if it stopped being profitable and instead competed with profitable IPs.
Even Gamers will embrace anti-capitalist models when you mention EA, Activision, or the fleeting nature of any work that isn't being ported and resold over and over under capitalism.
In the US the original work is still public domain but you own the IP to any additions that you made to the source material. A company with lots of money could threaten to sue smaller studios for infringing their IP even if they were only using the original public domain work.
In my most pessimistic estimation, I can imagine companies doing a rush to transform old folklore and myths and public domain media into new IPs they own. How would they do it? I don't know, but the physical commons also had a strong tradition of being common and laws, as the state, exist to mediate and reinforce the oppression of one class by another.
No reason to think they aren't already doing this on a more discreet fashion. At one point Disney tried to copyright Dia de los Muertos, seeing Disney try this and only stopping only after a huge backlash makes me think that there might be some traditions and cultural artifacts from not very visible cultures that have already been copyrighted.
When gilgamesh flops the media will be screaming that the world's oldest franchise is dead and that fans have moved on from the archaic epics of old and are thirsting for a new and refreshing franchise in the "rich people with magic powers fuck around" to begin. Will marvel step up to the plate????
how can cultural ideas have value when one constructive person doesn't have an exclusive property right over the idea?
The Mary Sue: Bible Fandom Twitter erupts in rage over Book of Enoch being recognized as canon
Been getting ads for this a lot. Seems like something I would "watch" two years after its release as background noise.
They're not calling Gawain and the Green Knight a franchise, they're calling the Arthur/Camelot mythos a franchise. In the sense that tons of people would adapt and add-on to it, which they historically did.
It's not that hot of a take.
i spent 4 weeks studying the classical mythology mythos
