🧠 On Intellectual Property: Why Stories Deserve Protection to Thrive✨
We don’t protect stories because we want to control them. We protect them because they matter.
Intellectual property isn’t just about lawyers and trademarks. It’s about giving creators the space to build something lasting—something they can nurture, not just unleash. It’s about letting stories have a home, a structure, a future. Without that, we don’t build mythologies. We don’t build legacies. We just consume and discard.
📚 When you safeguard a story, you give it the time to evolve. You let it grow roots. You let the people who created it explore its depths with care instead of fear. You allow stewardship, not exploitation.
🖋️ Good stories need time. They need intention. They need protection from the kind of creative burnout that comes when someone is constantly forced to chase the next thing before their last thing has even had time to breathe.
And yes—transformative works are important. Fanfiction, commentary, cultural remixing—all of that lives in beautiful tension with the original. But that’s just it: it must be a tension, not a theft.
Respecting intellectual property doesn’t mean keeping stories locked in a vault. It means giving them enough respect to know when to pause, to honor the vision, to let them rest between acts.
👁️🗨️ Every mythology we’ve ever loved—from Olympus to Gotham—only endures because someone, somewhere, said: “This story matters. It deserves care.”
Let’s stop acting like protection is the enemy of creation. Creation thrives when it knows it’s safe.
[Art by Miguel Rivas]
