Comments on: Emily the Strange Sues Possible Inspiration Source

By: Kimi ni Todoke Book 1 » Manga Worth Reading

Kimi ni Todoke Book 1 » Manga Worth Reading — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:32:49 +0000

[...] Her look is classic, not particularly scary, at least to my eyes. (Heck, some people have built companies based on it.) Even when she’s supposed to be drawn in a menacing fashion, it doesn’t [...]

By: Emily the Strange Lawsuit Update » Comics Worth Reading

Emily the Strange Lawsuit Update » Comics Worth Reading — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:50:54 +0000

[...] response to a lawsuit from the owners of Emily the Strange, Nate the Great creators Marjorie Weinman Sharmat and Marc Simont have sued Cosmic Debris (Emily [...]

By: mariconne

mariconne — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:59:09 +0000

i dont care emily rocks…

By: “Emily the Strange” strange copyright dispute « Collection Developments @ Sno-Isle

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:01:25 +0000

[...] on the copyright from the NateÃ‚Â books published in the 70s and 80s (School Library Journal & Comics worth Reading).Ã‚Â Cosmic Debris is asking a judge to declare that the goth girl doesn’t infringe on the [...]

By: Intellectual Property - where the Goth Girl goes mainstream

Intellectual Property - where the Goth Girl goes mainstream — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:40:12 +0000

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By: you thought we wouldn’t notice » Blog Archive » Emily the Strange Sues Possible Inspiration Source

Sun, 24 May 2009 12:35:18 +0000

[...] taken from comicsworthreading.com Emily the Strange has a movie in development for 2010. Often, when that happens, filmmakers want [...]

By: David Oakes

David Oakes — Sun, 24 May 2009 02:18:08 +0000

I find it hilarious that the Google ad for this thread – and the site in general – comes up “Emily the Strange Soda”.

By: thekamisama

thekamisama — Sat, 23 May 2009 16:18:18 +0000

Nate the Great was published by one of Random House’s companies…

Ouch. I thought Cosmic Debris had the potential to screw up with this case. Now it looks like they walked into a land mine, on purpose!

By: Johanna

Johanna — Sat, 23 May 2009 14:21:37 +0000

Early on, there was a comment that the authors had passed information along to their publisher. I’m not sure they completely own their copyright, which might make all this more complicated.

By: mahendra singh

mahendra singh — Sat, 23 May 2009 14:02:43 +0000

I’d like to add another comment and point out to all artists that this case shows the need for you to defend your copyright as soon as you have a problem and not adopt a laissez-faire attitude, leaving it for later or assuming that the offenders will go away.

Cosmic Debris’s lawyers will base their case on the point that since Sharmant & Simont never told them (CD) to desist, the copyright is either not theirs or they have not bothered to enforce it, almost the same thing.

Sharmant & Simont can clean up but only if they hire a good attorney. This should be an interesting case study for all those advocates of a brave new copyright-free world to contemplate.

By: Jeremy L. (aka Phlegon)

Jeremy L. (aka Phlegon) — Fri, 22 May 2009 23:12:50 +0000

This sort of case should be completely dismissed without being heard. Why should any of us create anything if we forever thereafter must fear that someone else will come along, copy it, and sue for the rights? Better to just not create anything at all, or else keep it to ourselves, and spare ourselves the headache of being sued.

By: mahendra singh

mahendra singh — Fri, 22 May 2009 18:13:34 +0000

This smacks of delicious hubris … if they retain a good lawyer, Sharmant & Simont will eventually earn more money in damages from this bizarre and utterly brazen lawsuit than they ever did from the book’s royalties.

Huzzah for the mind-numblingly destructive and insatiably rapacious greed of so many American businessmen!

By: Joe S. Walker

Joe S. Walker — Fri, 22 May 2009 16:24:24 +0000

Cosmic Debris swiped their name from a song by Frank Zappa, too…

By: thekamisama

thekamisama — Thu, 21 May 2009 21:18:04 +0000

They may wish they had just not bothered. This has the potetnial to do just the opposite of the intent. They are now going to cost the original “Nate the Great” creators some considerable legal fees to defend an obvious earlier and original creation. If they had no intentions of defending the work before, they certainly have cause now. It smacks of aggresive and mean spirited litigation and I hope Cosmic Debris ends up regreting this action in severe monetary ways.

By: Manuel

Manuel — Thu, 21 May 2009 19:14:39 +0000

Oh, there are a lot of similarities to believe Emily is a copy of Rosamond, the original gothic girl. Even both have four strange black cats. Just pay attention to the ‘comparison pictures’ and realize by yourselves.