Since this is a VR-oriented fic and not a legal-oriented fic, I plan to handwave this quite a bit. :) There doesn't need to be a Phoenix Wright yelling 'OBJECTION!' right at the start of the story.
I picture this as being a future in which corporations are quite powerful but there is nevertheless a thriving market for 'indies'-- small companies, studios, developers, etc. working in spaces that the megacorporations don't find it worthwhile to prospect. Thus there was a reference to Randall Cranston being an aficionado of an 'indie' SF series, 'Also Sprach Zarathustra' WayBackWhen (http://tuftears.livejournal.com/71804.html?nojs=1). This series was too small an audience to appear in mass-market theaters, so it was distributed directly to its fans, earning enough to keep going indefinitely.
As such, intellectual property laws need to be forgiving enough that big companies can't just lock up All The Ideas and sue small companies into extinction for using characters similar to some 30-year-ago minor character appearance, et cetera. Also, it seemed to me that governments might decide they needed to be recompensed more directly for enforcing intellectual property law, rather than receiving a very tiny up-front payment and no further money.
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Date: 2015-10-19 07:38 pm (UTC)I picture this as being a future in which corporations are quite powerful but there is nevertheless a thriving market for 'indies'-- small companies, studios, developers, etc. working in spaces that the megacorporations don't find it worthwhile to prospect. Thus there was a reference to Randall Cranston being an aficionado of an 'indie' SF series, 'Also Sprach Zarathustra' WayBackWhen (http://tuftears.livejournal.com/71804.html?nojs=1). This series was too small an audience to appear in mass-market theaters, so it was distributed directly to its fans, earning enough to keep going indefinitely.
As such, intellectual property laws need to be forgiving enough that big companies can't just lock up All The Ideas and sue small companies into extinction for using characters similar to some 30-year-ago minor character appearance, et cetera. Also, it seemed to me that governments might decide they needed to be recompensed more directly for enforcing intellectual property law, rather than receiving a very tiny up-front payment and no further money.