On: What’s entering the public domain on January 1

[hajile]

Are you implying then that copyright is not routinely abused? Big companies do this all the time (eg, Google v Oracle or the Unix lawsuits).

There's fan fiction of almost every character you can imagine. Can you name even ONE fan fiction you'd rather consume instead of the original author's work?

[Uehreka → hajile]

Millions of people seem to have purchased the Fifty Shades books/movies, and some portion of them did not read/watch Twilight, so…