If I have an intellectual property, and I decide to sell that property to Company B, they legally OWN that property and can do whatever they want. Sucks to be me. That's how it works.
So you don't matter at all and when that company decides to stop selling said property, you have literally no way in any chance of hell of getting back your creation that you made with your blood sweat and tears? Do you see how this is completely and utterly unfair/bullshit?
At best, unless a company made the IP itself, it should just be rented out by the maker and the publisher can only make partial amounts of money from said property through their own means. But once the renting is done, all rights go back to the maker of the IP and they are allowed to do with it in whatever kind of way they want. This would fix so fucking much and be easily done that it is a literal joke that it hasn't been done before.
Copyright laws and IP disputes are some of the dumbest things wrong with law these days.
That's right. If I'm worried about my property, I'm not going to sell it.
However, limited contracts exist ("X" amount of movies can be made off of my property, for example), and property rights can expire. Had a new Superman movie not entered production this past year, the rights would have been relinquished.
If I have an intellectual property, and I decide to sell that property to Company B, they legally OWN that property and can do whatever they want. Sucks to be me. That's how it works.
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