11:05 To put all that work in only for someone to come in and take it all the way because they're the publisher is honestly blood-boiling. 11:57 This right here is why i think sticking to yourself and avoiding big corporations is the way to go.
I don't understand the health care thing. If you get paid for a job you can use that money to buy your own health care. Comic artist are contract workers not employees. Benefits are something you offer to employees.
That is part of the problem. It's an untenable career if you are paid $15 per page and then expected to pay $2,000 per month for private health insurance for your family, especially in the days before the cheap ACA plans (which are awful plans with extremely high deductibles anyway)
I think the "...fully..." paragraph was poorly worded. Before you explained it, I interpreted it completely differently, and thought it was relating specifically to characters. For example, some guy that writes a single issue of TMNT shouldn't get to then claim any ownership of TMNT itself. I wasn't thinking at all about, "Well, WE published your comic, so you didn't fully create it." Veitch didn't "fully create" his TMNT story because he used the TMNT world and characters. But I am not saying that Veitch is in the wrong, because Mirage made an agreement with him so they (and the current rights holders) should honor it. The bigger problem here is that the length of copyright protection in America (and most of the rest of the world) lasts WAY too long. If it were up to me, all of the old TMNT stories would be in the public domain by now.
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11:05 To put all that work in only for someone to come in and take it all the way because they're the publisher is honestly blood-boiling.
11:57 This right here is why i think sticking to yourself and avoiding big corporations is the way to go.
Todd McFarlane broke the creators bill of rights to where chapel cogliostro and angela was taken out of spawn lore
R.i.p to michael zuli
Everyone is generous with their theoretical money. That changes really quick when it's no longer theoretical for most people.
I don't understand the health care thing. If you get paid for a job you can use that money to buy your own health care.
Comic artist are contract workers not employees. Benefits are something you offer to employees.
That is part of the problem. It's an untenable career if you are paid $15 per page and then expected to pay $2,000 per month for private health insurance for your family, especially in the days before the cheap ACA plans (which are awful plans with extremely high deductibles anyway)
I used to live in northampton Massachusetts
I think the "...fully..." paragraph was poorly worded. Before you explained it, I interpreted it completely differently, and thought it was relating specifically to characters. For example, some guy that writes a single issue of TMNT shouldn't get to then claim any ownership of TMNT itself. I wasn't thinking at all about, "Well, WE published your comic, so you didn't fully create it."
Veitch didn't "fully create" his TMNT story because he used the TMNT world and characters.
But I am not saying that Veitch is in the wrong, because Mirage made an agreement with him so they (and the current rights holders) should honor it.
The bigger problem here is that the length of copyright protection in America (and most of the rest of the world) lasts WAY too long. If it were up to me, all of the old TMNT stories would be in the public domain by now.
Yeah, I think you are correct - that is definitely another way to interpret the "fully" there
@tatoruzu I hope you do "image comics" content
Cerebus - ultrabadass comic. hello from russia)
oooh that's scummy