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[Draugoth]

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US author and artist Bill Willingham has rather dramatically announced that he is placing the Fables comicbook property in the public domain, including all Fables spin-offs and characters. This means that - pending a judgement from third-party legal experts, anyway - anyone can now create art of any kind set in the Fables universe.

"What was once wholly owned by Bill Willingham is now owned by everyone, for all time. It's done, and as most experts will tell you, once done it cannot be undone. Take-backs are neither contemplated nor possible."

You might recognise Fables as the universe in which Telltale's The Wolf Among Us is set. It's a grubby noir fairytale world in which bedtime story characters like Snow White and Prince Charming live discreetly among regular humans, aka Mundies, having been driven from their homelands by a mysterious Adversary..

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[Lethal01]

What a chad

 

[StereoVsn]

Good on him and f DC Comics and Warner Brother.

 

[Hudo]

That's a pretty cool "fuck you!"-move. Based.

 

[Thirty7ven]

stud

 

[Beer Baelly]

Based

 

[ManaByte]

Guy makes a comic using public domain characters. Gets in fight with DC over comic. Puts comic in public domain.

 

[Robb]