Your first comment makes no sense with the first quote. Also I am saying as years go on more game ideas will be already covered by large studios. So for an Indie to get a game out he/she may run into legal issues as most things at some point will be copyrighted, trademarked, or franchised. It is hard enough as it is being unique and not stepping on any other games toes. You need to realize big studios can push 10 games out to our 1. Specially if your talking big games. We could work on a solid idea and by time we release it some big shots already made it a few times over. Good recent example being King.com trying to get IP on the word Candy. If they or have obtained the rights who is to say many other words will not be claimed. In 10 years from now Indie could very well be an after thought.