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[PATV] Monday, October 7, 2013 - CheckPoint Season 3, Ep. 17: The Longest Half Life
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[PATV] Monday, October 7, 2013 - CheckPoint Season 3, Ep. 17: The Longest Half Life
At last, our long nightmare is over. Ha ha, just kidding.
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In any case, I like it.
Gah! you beat me to it. Just another hoax people! (honestly you'd think with how many times this stuff has been happening people's first response should be cynicism rather than glee)
But seriously, how much is stretch goal for Stark to go pantsless in 2014?
Copyright to the Chrono franchise hasn't expired, and Chrono, Marle, Robo, Lucca, Ayla, Magus & friends all remain the copyrighted property of Square Enix. If Mickey Mouse (who by all rights should have been in the public domain by now) is still the copyrighted property of the Walt Disney Company, you can bet that none of Square's creations are getting ready to make the jump.
The Checkpoint editors got it right in saying that the trademark to Chrono Break lapsed. Squeenix let the trademark lapse since there is no development of the Chrono franchise ongoing. This just means that if another company wanted to make a game called Chrono Break, they wouldn't need to fear a brand dilution lawsuit as much as if Square was still actively developing "Chrono Break."
Fan projects attempting to remake or remaster Chrono Trigger probably have just as much to fear from a bored IP attorney with a set of blank C&D forms now as they did back a few years ago when the Chrono HD project was shut down.
Protip: Any IP that was created within the living memory of the human race has probably not had its copyright lapse yet, at least in the United States.
I often see people mix up copyrights and trademarks, which really do lapse in a few years if nothing is done with them.
This is not true. Copyright is valid for 70 years after the death of the author.
See http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-duration.html#duration for more details
And it's misleading anyway. The copyright rules keep getting extended based on when Steamboat Willy was published. So anything published after that is safe for the foreseeable future.
Edit: I suppose you could also work on it in public until the C&D came in the mail. Then publicly announce shutting down while not really doing so and just going dark.
Nothing made since Steamboat Willie (1928) will ever enter the public domain.
Thanks, Disney lobbyists!
Oh, you Canadians.