That is so cool that conspiracy theories are public domain.
Especially from a storytelling point of view.
"There's also the danger of homogenization: even if a story comes from an authentic experience, that doesn't necessarily mean that it's universal and that nobody else has contradictory stories that are equally authentic."
A recent example of this is Gadd's BABY REINDEER on Netflix.
"Second, the stories were allowed to mock the conspiracy theories, but not the people who believe in them. It would be overly simplistic to reduce believers to comedic dolts and I wanted to be better than that. Ideally, we would have genuine, complex characters making their way through funny stories that might make even a believer smirk once in a while."
This makes me think of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's PREPPERS - especially the comic element. There was some sadness and frustration in there too.
People believe in conspiracy theories because they are serious and serious things are not being taken seriously or proportionally.
And the "wanting to be better than that" puts you into the Moral Philosophy world so much.
I mean, it makes a certain amount of sense. Who would claim credit for a conspiracy theory? How would you even go about verifying the claim? Not to mention enforce a copyright on a theory? I know there are patent offices and stuff but they do spread fairly quickly.
Conspiracy theories are akin to ideas, and you can't really copyright ideas, only finished works. So, our episodes are copyrightable, but anyone could make their own film works about the same underlying theories.
Well yes, obviously they are ideas but in today’s world, you can create a video explaining your conspiracy theory. So in that way you could trace the origin of a conspiracy to a specific person and video.
Still, even then it’s hard to see how it could be used for copyright purposes.
So if you wanted to make a movie or TV series about Slenderman, for instance - and several people have written books and documentaries.
To further the Slenderman example: M has a story about it and her friend has a different story/experience/context. These contexts do interact with each other and again with other creepypastas and Internet phenomena.
Some of the conspiracy theories - you would have about 40 to 200 years of data about them and their associated believers.
And the people who left them and no longer believe in them.
There is no copyright on evolution!
Or on the heliocentric universe.
Or even on the Special and General Theories of Relativity.
But there is copyright on various forms of DNA and rDNA.
[And Dawkins introduced the meme as an analogy to a gene].
Herman: if you end up doing something on the Sovereign Citizens...
That is so cool that conspiracy theories are public domain.
Especially from a storytelling point of view.
"There's also the danger of homogenization: even if a story comes from an authentic experience, that doesn't necessarily mean that it's universal and that nobody else has contradictory stories that are equally authentic."
A recent example of this is Gadd's BABY REINDEER on Netflix.
"Second, the stories were allowed to mock the conspiracy theories, but not the people who believe in them. It would be overly simplistic to reduce believers to comedic dolts and I wanted to be better than that. Ideally, we would have genuine, complex characters making their way through funny stories that might make even a believer smirk once in a while."
This makes me think of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's PREPPERS - especially the comic element. There was some sadness and frustration in there too.
People believe in conspiracy theories because they are serious and serious things are not being taken seriously or proportionally.
And the "wanting to be better than that" puts you into the Moral Philosophy world so much.
I mean, it makes a certain amount of sense. Who would claim credit for a conspiracy theory? How would you even go about verifying the claim? Not to mention enforce a copyright on a theory? I know there are patent offices and stuff but they do spread fairly quickly.
Conspiracy theories are akin to ideas, and you can't really copyright ideas, only finished works. So, our episodes are copyrightable, but anyone could make their own film works about the same underlying theories.
Well yes, obviously they are ideas but in today’s world, you can create a video explaining your conspiracy theory. So in that way you could trace the origin of a conspiracy to a specific person and video.
Still, even then it’s hard to see how it could be used for copyright purposes.
And creepypastas are something different again.
They are written or in pictures.
So if you wanted to make a movie or TV series about Slenderman, for instance - and several people have written books and documentaries.
To further the Slenderman example: M has a story about it and her friend has a different story/experience/context. These contexts do interact with each other and again with other creepypastas and Internet phenomena.
Some of the conspiracy theories - you would have about 40 to 200 years of data about them and their associated believers.
And the people who left them and no longer believe in them.
There is no copyright on evolution!
Or on the heliocentric universe.
Or even on the Special and General Theories of Relativity.
But there is copyright on various forms of DNA and rDNA.
[And Dawkins introduced the meme as an analogy to a gene].
Herman: if you end up doing something on the Sovereign Citizens...