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Why are we all talking like corporate copyright lawyers or marketing ghouls, using these explicitly commercial terms 
I'm disappointed by the ease at which "IP" rolls off my tongue. I mean, most of the fiction and entertainment we surround ourselves with are more soulless corporate slop than art, but still
Things can identifiably belong to the same
propertybut not share any narrative elementshow about "corpus"
idk I feel like "canon" does not have to imply any narrative continuity? like "canon of [author]" does not imply any relatedness of the author's works beyond the authorship itself
Good point- I've seen the word used in its popular culture sense so much I forgot its original meaning.
However, most franchises consist of works by multiple often work-for-hire authors
It's original meaning is church law.