Comments on: Pirates and Their Reasons Part of the Future of Comics

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Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:40:02 +0000

[...] most recent work, Comic Book Comics #6, tackled the future of comics, including digital versions, both legal and non, so it shouldn’t be surprising that that topic was also covered in the chat. (Although [...]

By: Jim Perreault

Jim Perreault — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 01:32:34 +0000

The examples cited here indicate to me that the amount of time it takes for a work to fall into the public domain is simply too long.

It’s a real shame the Supreme Court did not strike down that last copyright extension which is way out of balance.

By: Lyle

Lyle — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 23:59:51 +0000

There is a comic industry version of a print, the collected edition. However, with comics there are a good number of stories that people want to read but publishers are either fighting over the rights or have deemed not likely to be profitable enough to worth publishing.

I’ve been saying for at least a decade now, “I’d buy it if only they’d sell it.” is the one of the most comforting justifications of piracy, second only to feeling angry at intrusive anti-piracy measures.

By: David Oakes

David Oakes — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 23:19:52 +0000

How many prints of a Picasso or Rembrandt exist? Heck, entire industries exist just to make cheap knockoffs of things that are “too expensive”, from Ready-to-wear to Guttenberg’s Bibles. “Too Expensive” is just a Market waiting for Capitalism to exploit it.

By: Thad

Thad — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 22:07:03 +0000

Indeed; my digital comics collection is mostly made up of public-domain stuff, but I’ve got some things in there like Jack Kirby’s 2001 series — a book which will likely never be reprinted. The only people whose pockets I’m impacting by grabbing an illicit copy are resellers on eBay. Marvel’s not missing out on any money, and Kirby certainly isn’t.