<story><title>Seuss-Star Trek mashup crashes and burns at Ninth Circuit</title><url>https://www.courthousenews.com/seuss-star-trek-mash-up-crash-lands-with-ninth-circuit/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tehjoker</author><text>It&amp;#x27;ll be nice when we can finally get rid of copyright when the writers of a property are long dead. Looks like Dr. Seuss and Gene Roddenberry died almost 30 years ago.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s kind of ironic that Star Trek envisions a post-scarcity society where we can abandon pettiness like this and build on each others works and explore the universe while in the real world the petty owners of the copyright use the power of the state to prevent people from writing their own book using their own labor, creativity, and funds using characters from the 1960s or earlier.&lt;p&gt;In effect, the copyright owners are saying: &amp;quot;We own the society and its culture. Do not touch.&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Seuss-Star Trek mashup crashes and burns at Ninth Circuit</title><url>https://www.courthousenews.com/seuss-star-trek-mash-up-crash-lands-with-ninth-circuit/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jrockway</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t necessarily disagree with the legal opinion here, but I think copyright has gotten way out of control and it&amp;#x27;s time to remake these laws.  It should prevent flat-out photocopying and resale of a book, but nothing else.  If you draw your own illustrations for the text of some book -- have at it.  If you invent your own scenarios involving the characters of a book -- have at it.  If you invent new words for an existing song -- have at it.&lt;p&gt;All of these things are under threat and probably completely illegal at this point, and I don&amp;#x27;t think that&amp;#x27;s where society wants to be in another 200 years.  It might be time to rethink what people actually want here, and change the laws.</text></comment>