By: Robert Stanley Martin
It’s an employer-employee relationship in the sense that creators are doing work at the company’s direction and approval. That’s what I meant. I didn’t mean to suggest people were necessarily working...
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There are employer-employee relationships that don’t work that way, and non-employer-employee relationships that do. I think it muddies the water (in a way that works to the publishers’ advantage) to...
View ArticleBy: R. Maheras
RSM — I don’t think publishing “Before Watchmen” was wrong if “Watchmen” is, in fact, DC’s property. They could publish “Watchmen Babies” if they felt like it.
View ArticleBy: Robert Stanley Martin
To everyone– When I’m talking about Marvel and DC in the last few comments, I’m talking about their traditional company-owned publishing lines, not the divisions for creator-owned material such Astro...
View ArticleBy: Jeet Heer
Two things: 1) Kurt Busiek, is, as always in these debates, the real voice of sanity. 2) It’s odd that in the case of Moore/Gibbons RSM is willing to make allowances for oral assurances that were given...
View ArticleBy: Robert Stanley Martin
Jeet– 1) I wouldn’t go so far as to suggest that Kurt was the only voice of sanity chiming in, but I’m quite glad he did. 2) There’s considerable evidence of those assurances beyond just taking the...
View ArticleBy: Robert Stanley Martin
While we’re waiting for Jeet, I’ll relate what I know about Siegel & Shuster, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, and supposed broken agreements. With Siegel & Shuster, there are no claims to the best of...
View ArticleBy: Matthew Brady
Here’s a new wrinkle: http://www.tcj.com/harvey-kurtzman-estate-and-al-feldstein-file-to-regain-classic-ec-copyrights/ I have no idea what the “correct” answer is to disputes like this, but I find the...
View ArticleBy: Reversion Revulsion and Superman « Mr. Manley
[...] Martin’s “The Superman Case, and Best Outcomes for Writers in Comics” falls apart is where he calls reversion rights — the legal mumbo jumbo that [...]
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