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You know what makes for more creative challenges? Not being able to use someone else's character.

• flangola7 3y ago
  Culturally, Mario doesn't belong to any one person or organization. The idea of ideas being property is strange and alien.
  • bitwize 3y ago
    There are indigenous tribes who assign ownership of stories and songs to particular people/families. Retelling them without ownership or permission warrants punishment. The idea of ideas being property is as human as anything.
    • earthling8118 3y ago
      The only thing that is human about corporations is the people that make them up. There's a several order of magnitude gap between a few people/families in tribes compared to them.
      • bitwize 3y ago
        The original claim didn't mention anything about corporations. The idea of ideas being property is, itself, as old as the idea of property.
        • RunSet 3y ago
          My intuition says the notion of property being property had to predate the notion of ideas being property.
• Taywee 3y ago
  The same applies whether it's somebody else's or your own. Is it significantly more creative to continually milk a character you made 40 years ago? How about a character your company made before you even started working there?