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💼 CareercowMark Waid / William Mark Waid - Comics legend turned laughingstock, SJW lunatic, Dislikes Asians, Sued for Tortious Interference, King Baby, “The Strong Protect The Weak”
Based on this long back and forth between EVS and Zaid, I cannot wait for him to get into court and for a) someone to sit in on the case and b) the transcript of that case. I remind people, this guy's job is to argue in both oral and writing why your argument is correct or better than your opponents, and why the judge should take your side.
You can say that it's all a twitter spat, but I tend to find that those who engage in serious back and forth online, or how they argue in writing are generally no different when arguing in person. Look at Landau. A mess in his writing, and a mess in oral argument. Take from that what you will of Zaid, in light of his submissions, twitter spats and case history.
Ok, so Ethan Van Sciver has leaked a small bit of his private correspondence with this thread's lolcow, and.. this is a Chris Chan-tier chimp out, Rekieta's reply also killed my sides:
Only if it's recorded (which is standard) and someone pays for it to be done from whatever firm has the contract to do it, or gets the recording from the court. Meyer might be able to request through counsel that an audio recording be made available on PACER.
He's starting to come off as the comic nerd version of Creepy Porn Lawyer. All we need is for him to start drumming up fake rape allegations against ComicsGate "ringleaders".
Went to Ethan's twitter to have some laughs and booooy howdy was it worth it.
https://twitter.com/khaosrisen/status/1055342664449646592
A little old, but still gold! Remember, folks, this guy is supposed to be a lawyer. He should know what can and can't be interpreted as a threat legally. Nothing that guy said was threatening unless you're an utter pussy.
A little old, but still gold! Remember, folks, this guy is supposed to be a lawyer. He should know what can and can't be interpreted as a threat legally. Nothing that guy said was threatening unless you're an utter pussy.
This just isn't going to happen. They use these other legacy characters because they're known outside of nerd circles. There is just no market for characters who aren't even known outside of nerd circles, and are utterly despised by the few people who have even heard of them, and not bought by the few people who claim they care about them.
Creators don’t get residuals from “derivative characters”. Riri, SamCap, GogurtHulk, HeSheHulk, GirlThor, TeenVerine... all derivatives of existing characters
Neil Gaiman's much litigated co-ownership of Medieval Spawn disproves any notion that you can't get residuals from characters spun off from pre-existing ones.
Neil Gaiman's much litigated co-ownership of Medieval Spawn disproves any notion that you can't get residuals from characters spun off from pre-existing ones.
Big 2 companies don’t provide residuals for derivative characters. EVS talked about how he gets nothing from Jessica Cruz at DC because she’s a Green Lantern but does get them from Dust because she’s original. Gaiman’s situation w/Medieval Spawn is hugely out of the ordinary & also involved the rights to MiracleMan/MarvelMan, Angela & other stuff. Plus, my understanding is that he doesn’t do contract work under the usual contracts the 99.999% of other freelancers have to do.
Does that mean Marvel could save a ton of money by, if someone pitched an original "diverse" character, by saying they'll it on only if it's a spinoff from an existing one?
Went to Ethan's twitter to have some laughs and booooy howdy was it worth it. View attachment 585263 https://twitter.com/khaosrisen/status/1055342664449646592
A little old, but still gold! Remember, folks, this guy is supposed to be a lawyer. He should know what can and can't be interpreted as a threat legally. Nothing that guy said was threatening unless you're an utter pussy.
If you're doing work for hire (which most comics work is), anything created, including entirely original characters, would be exempt from residuals. Kirby's heirs found that out the hard way. DC and Marvel might have a policy of offering some kind of ownership agreement to those they allow to create original characters for them while maintaining "new kid with a lantern ring" is a strictly for-hire job, but that's entirely up to their own internal policies, nothing legally imposed. Once someone gets to where they can negotiate a non-standard contract, just about anything is possible. There was some grousing in the rumor mill that Bendis's hated "new" characters were created precisely because he had enough clout to ask for residuals under the deals Marvel was willing to cut him and a reworked Spider-Man was more likely to be profitable than trying to get an all-new hero to catch on. No idea if that's actually the case, but it's legally possible.
Creators don’t get residuals from “derivative characters”. Riri, SamCap, GogurtHulk, HeSheHulk, GirlThor, TeenVerine... all derivatives of existing characters
Every character has certain unique characteristics. So for example while Brian Michael Bendis would not get residuals or royalties for Spider-Man. He will for Miles Morales. Clearly Spider-Man is the more valuable character to have creator credit on, but the derivative creators still get a bit.
Case in point the “Flash” that was used in Smallville was actually Bart Allen. (Aka Impulse). Waid got some residuals for that as the co creator of Bart Allen.
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