I doubt that he's trying to put stuff he didn't work on into the public domain. This is more like an open source project maintainer relicensing their code and not that of contributors.
Everyone else can now write stories using the characters without worry. Anyone depicting the characters visually will want to make sure that they don't strongly resemble the art that DC presumably still has a copyright on.
I suspect if he got sued that he'd be able to get good legal help either from organizations like the EFF, or with crowdfunding. I'd certainly donate to that.
Everyone else can now write stories using the characters without worry. Anyone depicting the characters visually will want to make sure that they don't strongly resemble the art that DC presumably still has a copyright on.
I suspect if he got sued that he'd be able to get good legal help either from organizations like the EFF, or with crowdfunding. I'd certainly donate to that.