“…For example, the renewal of TMs for comic characters might enable perpetual protection and grant characters such as Batman never-ending stories. Furthermore, the "resurrection" of IPRs can bring public domain content back into the realm of formal IP protection (Dusollier, 2010;Senftleben, 2012). Additional TM protection may alter the balance between incentivizing creative work and providing access to such works that were originally created under the scope and duration of copyrights.…”