Nobody would ever come up with any cool new stories, because it wouldn't be worth doing all that worldbuilding. 4% (120 votes)
I would be watching a great postmodern Star Trek movie with elves and ninjas RIGHT NOW. 12% (330 votes)
We would get to see more crossovers. Captain Kirk would meet Mal Reynolds every day, sometimes twice a day. 11% (305 votes)
It wouldn't matter that much for movies and TV — who wants to see some fan film anyway? — but it would make every book saga endless and sprawling. 6% (154 votes)
Paradoxically, you'd see fewer Dune and Foundation books, because there'd be no money in it. 8% (217 votes)
Remixed and reinvented works would revitalize classic SF — every Heinlein book could have alternate fan edits. 9% (256 votes)
There would be fewer TV and movie sequels. And what there was would be low-budget. 2% (63 votes)
Studios and publishers would be frantically searching for the next twenty-year cash cow. 13% (348 votes)
Surprisingly little would change. 10% (281 votes)
It would be the end of originality in SF altogether. Why bother to create something new when Starfleet and the Force are public domain? 6% (163 votes)
You'd have a million cheap knock-offs, stuff designed to be ALMOST Superman, but still copyrighted. 9% (263 votes)
Sequels, spin-offs and remakes would be rushed into production at light speed. 10% (274 votes)
