Brian Alvey spoiled the news, but now we can finally make the announcement: In the wake of the recent landmark ruling returning 50-percent copyright ownership of Superman to the estate of Jerry Siegel, the Siegel estate has announced their first deal to publish Superman — and we’re proud to say, it’s with us. Starting in…
For those who came in late… As has been widely reported, the Federal District Court ruled somewhat in favor of the estate of Jerry Siegel in its lawsuit to have all publishing rights to the Superman story in Action Comics #1 be taken from Time Warner’s DC Comics subsidiary and given to Jerry’s heirs. The…
With all the recent talk of creators getting ripped off, here’s another one for the old "Things That Make Me Shake My Fist Angrily" pile. According to the ever-vigilant mightygodking.com, Y: The Last Man, Transmetropolitan, Fables and various other fan-favorite titles were all based on old Silver Age comics — and the site is chock full…
Popular adult-oriented cartoonist Jess Fink is mad as hell, apparently — and she’s not going to take it anymore. After a fan alerted her to a suspicously familiar t-shirt design advertised on chain clothing store Hot Topic’s website, Fink is on a mission to prevent the store from selling any more shirts with the design…
Following the various stories all over the place. A few quick followups: DC and Top Cow has asked Z-Cult to take down links to torrents of their books. Matt Brady points out: …with the action against Z-Cult only having a superficial, if any, effect on the number of comic book torrents available online, many observers…
There’s been a lot of talk about how DC and Marvel started going after scanners and torrent sites this Thanksgiving weekend, and now Z-Cult has agreed to take down all Marvel comics and wait a month before posting any DC books. To which my response is: what took you so long? I have particular reason…
About a month ago, our Glenn Hauman turned me on to this story and I’ve got to tell you, I’m still pissed. According to published reports, which all carry the following verbatim: “NBC/Universal general counsel Rick Cotton suggests that society wastes entirely too much money policing crimes like burglary, fraud, and bank-robbing when it should…
For some reason, Craig Ferguson, a very funny person in his own right, has allegedly appropriated the work of Kyle Baker, the funniest man in the world. You can see the evidence at http://myspace.com/ghostchimpmd and at YouTube. Kyle developed the idea when he was working at Warner Bros. in the early 1990s. Bob Morales, a…
Remember how we reported sales of Spider-Man 3 bootlegs in China? And then how we reported Sony said that wasn’t so? Well, Sony lied. Kind of. There certainly were Spider-Man 3 DVDs being sold in China, at one buck a pop – as reported. However, if you bought one and popped it in your player,…
Boy oh boy. We’re a little late to the party, here’s the quick recap: Todd Goldman is the founder of “David and Goliath,” a merchandise company which produces clothing, posters and other merchandise featuring a variety of artwork and slogans that he theoretically created all by himself. According to the Wall Street Journal, the sales…
Long-time comics writer Gary Friedrich has sued Marvel Comics, Sony Pictures and their Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, Relativity Media, Crystal Sky Pictures, Michael De Luca Productions, Hasbro Inc. and Take-Two Interactive for copyright infringement over his version of Ghost Rider. Filed last week in Illinois, Friedrich claims 21 separate copyright and trademark violations based…
Not to pile on poor little pornographers, but I think, if this image is any indication, that Sinful Comics is going to be hearing from Marvel’s lawyers too. And Sony’s. And probably the lawyers for Jessica Alba and Ioan Gruffudd. And the hell of it is, the artist is pretty talented and could probably find…
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