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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/10/2026

In 2023, Bill Willingham terminated the transfer of his wildly successful graphic novel series *Fables* from DC and released the copyright into the public domain: pluralistic.net/2023/09/15/f...

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Pluralistic: Bill Willingham puts his graphic novel series “Fables” into the public domain (15 Sept 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/10/2026

And now, Richard Garriott, AKA "Lord British," has claimed back the rights to the groundbreaking Ultima series of computer role-playing games, which he sold to Electronic Arts in 1992: www.videogameschronicle.com/news/richard...

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Richard Garriott is officially regaining control of the Ultima series | VGC

Ultima creator confirms he will soon regain the copyright from Electronic Arts…

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/10/2026

On the Techjess podcast, Garriott marveled at how easy it was: "there’s a really weird copyright law that says if you're the original holder of a copyright and you assign it or sell it to any publisher or any other entity, after 35 years, you can just take it back": www.youtube.com/watch?v=2El7...

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Will there will be more Ultima games? - Richard Garriott AKA Lord British

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Zach 🇺🇦🇪🇺 @zachrid.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I hate to say it, but rebooting the entire thing would probably be the best idea here. Besides playing The False Prophet with a gameplay like BG3 would b... Come to think of it, just hand it to Larian.

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Fuchs @fuchs4fox.bsky.social · 11h

They'll be written by LLM's, though. At that point does he even have rights anymore?

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