should IPs be given up by large publishers if not used?

[VGPolyglot]

Ka-pi96 said:

VGPolyglot said:
I think that IP laws are way too long, if more franchises/games were in the public domain it'd be great seeing all of the things that could be done with them.

But people complain about lack of new IPs already, if you're giving everybody free access to a bunch of established franchises then there's going to be even fewer new IPs.

Not really, since copyright holders right now like Nintendo would have to create new franchises in order to own the IP rights since their old franchises would be in the public domain.