Holy copyright infringement BATMAN!

[miraclefan]

This is nuts! I cant belive DC even has a case here!http://www.bradenton.com/news/local/story/1578132.html The only thing I can say is he probably should have stopped making these after DC told him to stop a decade ago. My only question now is how will this effect the garage kit industry?

 

[CorporalClegg]

Semantics are such fickle things.

That seems really dodgy to me. I dunno, I think DC might have a case.

 

[bigdaddy]

He is screwed.

"I'm not making Batman toys, I just happen to be making toys of the people who played Batman as they were wearing the costume".

What an idiot!

 

[ManOnTheWave]

Semantics are such fickle things.

That seems really dodgy to me. I dunno, I think DC might have a case.

Warners wouldn't allow Adam West to put on his bat mask during public appearances. This guy is done for.

 

[miraclefan]

He is screwed.

"I'm not making Batman toys, I just happen to be making toys of the people who played Batman as they were wearing the costume".

What an idiot!

Semantics are such fickle things.

That seems really dodgy to me. I dunno, I think DC might have a case.

Warners wouldn't allow Adam West to put on his bat mask during public appearances. This guy is done for.

Really? WOW! This guy is screwed.....BIG TIME.

 

[Greg Cox]

He is screwed.

"I'm not making Batman toys, I just happen to be making toys of the people who played Batman as they were wearing the costume".

What an idiot!

That sounds more like wishful thinking than logic!

 

[LitmusDragon]

Some people just don't believe it can happen to them. This guy was apparently warned many times.

 

[Shazam!]

In fairness, if he had been repeatedly asked to stop then perhaps he should've, but where do they pull figures like 1 million from? Are they actually mental? If I was in charge of the case I'd charge DC with being morons.

 

[Davros]

He should have cut DC in on a percentage when he first came up with the idea.

 

[Greg Cox]

Some people just don't believe it can happen to them. This guy was apparently warned many times.

This is a fairly common syndrome. There was a case several years back when some fans asked a well-known writer if they could write a novel set in her universe. Said author asked them not to do so. The fans went ahead and self-published the book anyway, proudly sent a finished copy to the author, then were shocked when she sued them!

And then there was that guy in a writer's workshop I taught a few years ago who was absolutely convinced that he had the right to publish his own WOLVERINE novels because he understood the character better than Marvel!

 

[Lapis Exilis]

In fairness, if he had been repeatedly asked to stop then perhaps he should've, but where do they pull figures like 1 million from? Are they actually mental? If I was in charge of the case I'd charge DC with being morons.

Morons? How about money-grubbing corporate pricks out to screw a little guy to protect their enormous profit margins? All's fair in love and capitalism.

 

[roguephoenix]

And then there was that guy in a writer's workshop I taught a few years ago who was absolutely convinced that he had the right to publish his own WOLVERINE novels because he understood the character better than Marvel!

lol that's like someone going to a french cooking school cause he wanted to make french fries. >_<

 

[Da'an]

This is a fairly common syndrome. There was a case several years back when some fans asked a well-known writer if they could write a novel set in her universe. Said author asked them not to do so. The fans went ahead and self-published the book anyway, proudly sent a finished copy to the author, then were shocked when she sued them!

Anne Rice?

Just wait until Stephenie Meyer does the same thing.

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

It'd be funny if it were Anne Rice, since she's kind of doing the same thing these days.

 

[Trekker4747]

The guy is a douchebag. He violated copyright plain and simple. Is it any wonder he looks like an older, fatter, douchier Michael Bay?

 

[Robert Maxwell]

If you don't protect your trademark, you lose it. He was warned many times. He's lucky DC let him get away with it this long.

As much as I think IP laws go too far, this one is pretty cut and dried. You just can't make things based on other people's work, without their permission, and get paid for it. You just don't do it.

 

[SeerSGB]

This is a fairly common syndrome. There was a case several years back when some fans asked a well-known writer if they could write a novel set in her universe. Said author asked them not to do so. The fans went ahead and self-published the book anyway, proudly sent a finished copy to the author, then were shocked when she sued them!

Anne Rice?

Just wait until Stephenie Meyer does the same thing.

From what I understand, it sorta has already happened with Meyer.

This September 2009, a new controversial book hits stores. It is called Russet Noon and it is a tribute sequel to the Twilight Saga. Written by Gothic webmistress and author LadySybilla, Russet Noon is an unofficial continuation to the last book in the Twilight series, Breaking Dawn. Russet Noon is told from Jacob Black's perspective and it explores the questions left unanswered at the end of the last installment in the Twilight Saga.


This delusional fanficcer doesn't care that she is violating Stephenie Meyer's copyright because she doesn't think Meyer has one. Honest.

We'd like to thank all the buyers who pre-ordered Russet Noon. The promotional offer to purchase the novel early is now over and will resume in August 2009. Please contact our sales department to find out more about the release of Russet Noon this September 2009. Beware of half-truth accusations and find out about the actual facts on copyright laws.

Have fun being Meyer's bitch in court.

And more from the future Darwin Award For Fanfic Writers Winner

F: So about the whole publication problem and rights,did you receive any contact from Stephenie’s people?

A: Yes, that’s definitely a legal mess, no attorney will defend me if I decide to publish. Stephenie’s rep or even herself didn’t contact me, I believe she probably has her mind made up about me already. I think she laughs at the whole situation, to be honest, it’s just hilarious, the rage, the hate, the strong emotions.

Gee do you thing. Might it be the fact no attorney wants to get reamed up the ass by a IP lawyer that has 'em dead to right.

Writers and readers all over the net have opened their eyes to the truth: authors sell their fanfiction and get away with it. Sure, published authors play a safe game around copyright laws and change the names and circumstances of their characters around just enough to claim they've created a new character.[...]No author truly creates characters. The characters already exist in the archetypal world that Jung, Freud and Joseph Campbell have described in their books. The author is a medium who channels these characters. The origin of all characters is the Shared Mind, the only mind that truly exists. Our minds are all one single ocean of shared memories, fantasies, dreams, nightmares and visions [...]Laws that attempt to privatize the ownership of characters operate based on a delusion of separateness that we all share in this matrix we call reality.

 

[bigdaddy]

In fairness, if he had been repeatedly asked to stop then perhaps he should've, but where do they pull figures like 1 million from? Are they actually mental? If I was in charge of the case I'd charge DC with being morons.

Morons? How about money-grubbing corporate pricks out to screw a little guy to protect their enormous profit margins? All's fair in love and capitalism.

Why don't you come up with some idea and then I'll steal it and say i didn't.

The guy is a douchebag. He violated copyright plain and simple. Is it any wonder he looks like an older, fatter, douchier Michael Bay?

I think copyright is an overused and abused thing, but this case seems pretty simple.

I'm gonig to make a Batman movie and sell it. It's not really a Batman movie it's just me in a Batman costume.

 

[Greylock Crescent]

Yeah ... this is a pretty clear-cut case. Why on earth would you ignore repeated warnings? Unless this guy is going the "civil disobedience" route, it seems a rather foolish thing to do. Plus, his whole claim that he only sold "50 kits in ten years" sounds, well, also foolish.

 

[Da'an]

Writers and readers all over the net have opened their eyes to the truth: authors sell their fanfiction and get away with it.

Well to be honest, Stephenie Meyer does write Twilight fanfiction.