The whole batman universe or just batman?
It will be just the purple gloves wearing gun wielding Batman from Detective Comics #27. The other characters all have some more time before being available (and by more time, I mean 12 years because Batman came out in 1939 and Robin and The Joker was 1940)This is Joe Chill erasure!
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/1/18f97d27.jpg
It will be just the purple gloves wearing gun wielding Batman from Detective Comics #27. The other characters all have some more time before being available (and by more time, I mean 12 years because Batman came out in 1939 and Robin and The Joker was 1940)False, Thomas Wayne, Martha Wayne, and Joe Chill are also 1939s along with Batman himself.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/1/18f97d27.jpg
It will be just the purple gloves wearing gun wielding Batman from Detective Comics #27. The other characters all have some more time before being available (and by more time, I mean 12 years because Batman came out in 1939 and Robin and The Joker was 1940)
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/1/18f97d27.jpg
When Superman and Batman become public domain, does their rogue gallery do too?Not right away. Whoever were in the debut comic as them becomes public domain alongside them. Otherwise, you have to wait longer for them to become public domain.
When Superman and Batman become public domain, does their rogue gallery do too?They do depending on their date of debut. Like how Pete and Oswald became public domain prior to Mickey.
That's pretty much the Animated Series Batman. Anyone can do a year one comic with that. Or any other story not involving his rogue gallery.Well, besides one exception, if you consider him part of it considering what he did, and him being involved with Batman from the beginning, both chronologically wise and installment wise. CBR seem to think so.
Not right away. Whoever were in the debut comic as them becomes public domain alongside them. Otherwise, you have to wait longer for them to become public domain.From looks of it you could make something resembling Batman 4 years later. Joker, Gotham, Alfred, Robin, Bruce's family, catwoman and the batmobile
what terrifies me about this is ppl marketing batman to kids which pushes alt right idealsThey already do that. They just call him "The Fixer."
So... When does him killing people enter the public domain? Didn't he drop a guy off a building at one point, before his image was cleaned up?Him killing people will probably be in the public domain earlier than him not killing people. Batman wielded a pistol and shot criminals in Detective Comics #27.
I'm sure it'll be renewed.
Not how it works, 100 years its free game no matter what.95 years to be exact.
I can wait for the day-one Batman slasher horror movie reveal.
I wonder if around that time DC is gonna really start pushing legacy characters, maybe even retire Bruce Wayne Batman if they can't be the only people making money off him anymore. Superman, Aquaman and Wonder Woman also become public domain around that time (give or take a few years). Definitely gonna be a shake up in the DC universe.They recently had a comic where Batman's son, Superman's son and Wonder Woman's daughter all teamed up and I think a big emphasis was implied in the story of that issue, that these are the next generation. I didn't actually read it but I read an article somewhere talking about it.
Marvel's lucky in that they're not gonna have to worry about this for a while, since their iconic characters were made in the 60's. Captain America and Namor will be public domain around those years tho so they're not completely off the hook.
I wonder if around that time DC is gonna really start pushing legacy characters, maybe even retire Bruce Wayne Batman if they can't be the only people making money off him anymore. Superman, Aquaman and Wonder Woman also become public domain around that time (give or take a few years). Definitely gonna be a shake up in the DC universe.
Marvel's lucky in that they're not gonna have to worry about this for a while, since their iconic characters were made in the 60's. Captain America and Namor will be public domain around those years tho so they're not completely off the hook.
Pardon my ignorance, and a simple google search couldnt find me an answer, but WHY cant someone hold a copyright forever? Why do things have to become public domain?
Pardon my ignorance, and a simple google search couldnt find me an answer, but WHY cant someone hold a copyright forever? Why do things have to become public domain?From wikipedia:
Possible values include:
Building blocks for the creation of new knowledge, examples include data, facts, ideas, theories, and scientific principle.
Access to cultural heritage through information resources such as ancient Greek texts and Mozart's symphonies.
Promoting education, through the spread of information, ideas, and scientific principles.
Enabling follow-on innovation, through for example expired patents and copyright.
Enabling low cost access to information without the need to locate the owner or negotiate rights clearance and pay royalties, through for example expired copyrighted works or patents, and non-original data compilation.[26]
Promoting public health and safety, through information and scientific principles.
Promoting the democratic process and values, through news, laws, regulation, and judicial opinion.
Enabling competitive imitation, through for example expired patents and copyright, or publicly disclosed technologies that do not qualify for patent protection.[25]: 22
You're kidding yourself if you think he won't get the Mickey Mouse treatment.
You're kidding yourself if you think he won't get the Mickey Mouse treatment.Mickey Mouse (steamboat Willie version) is public domain right now.
What Mickey Mouse treatment? Disney stopped fighting. Mickey is PD now.No, they are still fighting, but now have lost the battle. And only for the specific Steamboat Willie version. It was supposed to expire in the 80's. They literally changed the laws to keep just the Steamboat version going for another 40 years.
You're kidding yourself if you think he won't get the Mickey Mouse treatment.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asUguOAJawU
I can wait for the day-one Batman slasher horror movie reveal.
I can wait for the day-one Batman slasher horror movie reveal.Isn't that just Batman Who Laughs?
Isn't that just Batman Who Laughs?
christ Batman Who Laughs is fuckin' terrible
I can deal with BWL alone, but the other Batmen he recruited is an edgy cringefest.
Mickey Mouse (steamboat Willie version) is public domain right now.And the best thing it caused is https://mousetrappedcomic.blog/