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« Reply #8 on: February 24, 2005, 08:44:52 PM »
Okay, chief.
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« Reply #9 on: February 24, 2005, 08:57:46 PM »
DON'T CALL ME CHIEF!
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« Reply #10 on: February 24, 2005, 09:05:26 PM »
Sure, chief.  Tongue
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« Reply #11 on: February 24, 2005, 09:21:15 PM »
and with that Bill gets banned Wink
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« Reply #12 on: February 24, 2005, 10:39:16 PM »
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I have been informed that Michael Fleischer sued The Comics Guild for an article in which Harlan Ellison slammed MF.  Actually went to trial and TCG won.  Imagine...

I think if MF's work is excerpted as a footnotes or referred to as a source material, should be OK but to reproduce whole entries??? Dunno.

I await the Glorious One's insight.


Fleisher sued the Comics Journal and Ellison over an interview the Journal did with Ellison.  In the interview, Ellison talked about current 1970s-80s comics he liked and Fleisher's Jonah Hex and Spectre stories were mentioned (I think Fleisher's novel "Chasing Harry" was also mentioned).
If I recall correctly, Ellison called Fleisher a name (a synonym for crazy) that Fleisher felt was defamatory and sued for libel.

A very long court case ensued over Freedom of Speech/First Ammendment issues and the Journal won.  Jim Shooter (of Legion of Superheroes and Marvel CEO fame) famously testified for Fleisher.  The transcript of the whole case was printed in a massive issue of the Journal with a great cover illo of Shooter by Megaton Man's Don Simpson.  I recommend that all comics fans and fans of the American Bill of Rights and Constitution check out that issue of the Comics Journal.  Issue 115, April 1987.
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« Reply #13 on: February 24, 2005, 11:50:04 PM »
Telle, I meant Journal..where was my mind this morning?

But...all this, news to me.
Yeah - Suspended Animation.  Bad typing.  stinks.
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« Reply #14 on: March 15, 2005, 04:59:50 PM »
I came late to this party and didn't get around to reading this thread until yesterday.  I guess I rather naively assumed that since we were so brazenly copying from TGSB that some sort of permission had been obtained.

But now that I know that it has not been, and I think on the whole copyright issue, I'm going to have to bow out of this project.

Thanks for letting me, a new comer, jump right in and feel welcome on this project and the best of luck to everyone.

Bye.
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« Reply #15 on: March 15, 2005, 05:50:10 PM »
Admiral,
you can still write your own entries using the comics themselves as source material as Ive been doing.
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