• catloaf@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    So when Bethesda makes a new Skyrim, Todd Howard should personally own the whole thing?

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      2 months ago

      Yes, or parts of the game owned by different individuals. They can have a contract to use their intellectual property only for Bethesda’s uses.

      Even if it was owned by one person at the company, that’s no different than the company owning it. But since it’s owned by a finite being instead of an eternal entity, so it makes it clearer that copyright should also be finite.