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Bill Willingham
Personal blog · billwillingham.substack.comwritingculture
Bill Willingham writes These Foolish Games, a personal blog at billwillingham.substack.com about writing and culture. Since 2023, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Willingham Sends Fables into the Public Domain”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-04, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Bill Willingham's Substack for his posts on putting Fables into the public domain and his follow-up explaining why. One thread also touches on copyright terms and how comics creators are treated.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /p/more-about-fables-in-the-public-domain3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-09-15
- Willingham Sends Fables into the Public Domain3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-09-14
What Hacker News says?
While I agree in theory, I'm afraid that disputes over what is sufficient in what industry would result in 10 years for one kind of work, 40 for another, and 5 for yet another. I would accept a one-size-fits-all solution in the form of a lowest-common-denominator which simultaneously is much closer to the original US copyright term. Surely 15 years of monopoly privileges after publishing - or 20 years after writing/…
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on “'Terminating Internet Access over Piracy Claims Is Drastic and Overbroad'”Submitted Willingham Sends Fables into the Public Domain as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHe explicitly says something like this in his follow up https://billwillingham.substack.com/p/more-about-fables-in-t...
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on “Willingham Sends Fables into the Public Domain”Submitted Bill Willingham Sends Fables into the Public Domain as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThere's also a follow-up. https://billwillingham.substack.com/p/more-about-fables-in-t... Hearing how DC treats comics creators makes me want to boycott their future publications. Thankfully, there are publishers like Image that operate more fairly.
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on “Willingham Sends Fables into the Public Domain”Ah, i get the effect idea/system. Way cheaper for a huge company/conglomerate to uphold all of the laws on the planet so they can operate and earn money everywhere. Willingham explains his actions a bit more in this post: https://billwillingham.substack.com/p/more-about-fables-in-t...
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on “Willingham Sends Fables into the Public Domain”