Will DC Comics prevent the Fables intellectual property from entering the public domain before August 2026?
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To make a long story short: Fables is a creator-owned comic book series which started in 2002, based on public domain characters from folklore, fairy tales, etcetera. The Wolf Among Us by Telltale Games is based on the comic series.

The creator, Bill Willingham, is putting the comic in the public domain, mostly because he's fed up with dealing with DC comics, who are unscrupulous and awful to do business with. DC is saying it's not a creator-owned comic series, and that he can't do that.

Links:

  1. https://billwillingham.substack.com/p/willingham-sends-fables-into-the

  1. https://www.thepopverse.com/fables-dc-comics-statement-public-domain-ownership

If it looks like DC comics is successful, this resolves YES. If everyone is too scared to publish their own Fables comics because they don't want to be harassed by Warner Bros lawyers, so we don't really know for sure whether the Warner Bros lawyers would win, then I'm not sure how this will be resolved. Many ambiguous things could happen. We'll have a debate about what the most fair way to resolve it is, and then I'll make the final call. I could resolve to a percentage, or N/A. I will not bet.

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Does anyone have an idea for a fables original story for me to publish to see if I get sued?