Inked Menagerie

So there’s an interesting theory that with endless pastiche(replication of dame with no added meaning) you can see a collapse in culture. This is obviously not permanent but it is seen throughout different time periods.

There’s a third factor as well, and Disney may be the main cause of it. Nothing much has entered the public domain in decades, thanks in no small part to the Disney Corporation. In 1998 Mickey Mouse was about to enter the Public Domain, long after Walt’s passing. However, Disney hired Lobbyists to convince Congress to extend copyright laws by DECADES. Most modern works will outlive the people who own them, leaving them to exist in a sort of limbo, Terry Pratchett’s works, Isaac Asimov, so many amazing worlds that would have been amazing engines for future works are now locked away in a prison... Additionally, I have a theory that Disney is kind of aware that they are running out of ideas, hence the whole just remaking what they’ve already made. HOWEVER, it goes a step further than that... Disney has been buying up property rights all over; Marvel, Star Wars, Fox, and I’m sure these aren’t the last of them. This would mean that they are gaining domain over more works. They have the entire Marvel Universe to play with now, and they also are the ones solely responsible for the expansion of the Star Wars universe (which is why they nuked the old canon).