The People’s Joker fight is everything wrong with IP law.
is an extremely loose retelling of the Batman villain’s origin story, reinterpreting the Joker as a trans woman trying to break into the mob-like world of Gotham’s stand-up comedy scene. Its trailer describes it as “an illegal comic book movie,” but its creators more seriously defend it as an unauthorized but legal parody of DC’s original character, to the point of giving their lawyer a full-screen credit.
To understand these terms, we need to talk about a fight far older than superhero comics: a battle over what copyright is for. It’s not the most obvious line to draw from a movie about a supervillain doing stand-up comedy, but it’s an incredibly important one. Copyright isn’t just about laws and disclaimers! It’s about what culture itself is supposed to be., author Lewis Hyde describes two basic ways to look at culture. The first view says that it should work like private land.
Modern US copyright law is the kind with those grudging, narrow exceptions. Works are very slowly passing into the public domain, but only
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