Captain Copyright Expires 114
The Canadian superhero Captain Copyright has finally expired, not due to pirates or to the passage of 50 years after the death of the author, but because "the current climate around copyright issues will not allow a project like this one to be successful." The cartoon was intended to provide an education in copyright law for children, but it became a focus for criticism when even the Canadian Library Association condemned it for lacking balance because it ignored issues like Fair Dealing (Canada's version of Fair Use). Personally, I was hoping we'd see them get sued by DC & Marvel, who claim to own the trademark on the word "superhero", and vanish in a puff of logic.
So... (Score:5, Funny)
Is it 85 years after death that his copyright expires and we can create our own free version of him?
Only 84 years 11 months and 3 weeks to go...
Re:So... (Score:1, Funny)
It coulda been really deviant (Score:5, Funny)
I wonder... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I wonder... (Score:1, Funny)
Y'arghh!
A fancy way of saying... (Score:2, Funny)
Yet another Canadian superhero suffering from copyright climate change. Can you still deny the truth after this?
Re:It coulda been really deviant (Score:5, Funny)
His wife... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:So... (Score:3, Funny)
I probably shouldn't mention this... but Disney is working on a direct-to-DVD presentation of Captain Copyright. The upshot is that you'll never get your chance.
Re:So... (Score:3, Funny)
itsabirditsaplaneitstheriaa (Score:3, Funny)
Re:It coulda been really deviant (Score:5, Funny)
I wonder if to this day those programmers are dropping casual references to their appearance in a "rap video" in attempt to get laid. I probably would.
Netcraft now confirms: Captain Copyright is dying (Score:4, Funny)
It is official; Netcraft now confirms: Captain Copyright is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Captain Copyright community when IDC confirmed that Captain Copyright market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming close on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Captain Copyright has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Captain Copyright is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Captain Copyright's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Captain Copyright faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Captain Copyright because he is dying. Things are looking very bad for Captain Copyright. As many of us are already aware, Captain Copyright continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Re:Not a SUPER-hero anyway (Score:5, Funny)
His superpowers are irony, the ability to set off kids' bullshit detectors without even having to say anything, and the ability to incapacitate pirates by forcing them to laugh uncontrollably.
Re:It coulda been really deviant (Score:4, Funny)
Although come to think of it, if all that it takes to absolve myself of any potential guilt about software piracy is mastu... 3) Profit!
Re:Not a SUPER-hero anyway (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Not a SUPER-hero anyway (Score:2, Funny)
Re:It coulda been really deviant (Score:4, Funny)
May the same fate await (Score:4, Funny)