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I think that’s going to happen once the spite burns out. This character has kinda become the symbol of a denial of culture for corporate greed. And I don’t think that he’ll ever be the real icon of what becomes more common. I suspect in the mischievous cartoon character we’ll wind up with a lot of interesting takes on bugs bunny when we can and that should be fun.

But that’s not where I think we’re really stunted. A hundred years ago it was 28 years copyright automatically and could be extended another 28 to 56. That means this year we’d be getting content from 1968 that’s maintained and 1996 that isn’t. That means everything from the 1920s would not only be in the public domain, some stuff that’s created using 1920s public domain content would be too. It would mean that the lord of the rings would’ve been in the public domain for a decade now. And it’s characters and content like that that I think is where public domain really shines. We’ve already seen it with fanfic and with characters like Sherlock Holmes.

So yeah, give it a few years, let people’s anger die down and let something they love fall into the public domain and I think you’ll at the very least see the love that can come from public domain.