A Distant Soil by Colleen Doran

Prince Sixte-Henri de Bourbon-Parme, a descendant of Louis XIV, protests pop manga-style artist Murakami’s exhibit at Versailles.

“We’re not against the modernity of art but against a way of thinking that denatures and does French culture no good,” the prince said.

Neil Gaiman at New York Mag. This has been linked everywhere, but here it is again.

There are claims that the comic strip is one of the great American art forms like jazz. And I actually don’t know if it’s true or not, and don’t care. You can point to the Germans, you can point to the English, and then you can go into that wonderful Scott McCloud madness of cave paintings and hieroglyphics, and what’s comics and what wasn’t comics, and it was all writing comics because, after all, the letter A only shows a bull’s head turned on its side, and so on and so forth. But it is this uniquely American art form that has somehow managed to infiltrate the world and then come back to us, which was one of the reasons that I loved sticking some of the more manga-influenced stuff in there -

South Park creators plagiarize jokes, make apology.

Except Parker and Stone’s explanation makes little to no sense and leaves them looking like bigger tools.

Totally lame t-shirt maker rips Dr Who fan art, makes no apology, and offers made of wrong, and badly misspelled “copywrite” definition.

Exhibit A: The plagiarism.

Exhibit B: The “Copywrite”

The expensive and the on the sly cheapo. I now use the expensive. The expensive requires me to take my original commercial art to my lawyer along with a list of the applications for same I wish to use my image for (eg T-shirts, Mugs, Key rings, Stationary etc.) and how that will generate income (THESE STEPS ARE VERY IMPORTANT)
He takes copies slips in the cover signs and dates and imprints everything and hands me a bill for $250.00 plus HST.

What the heck is this dude writing about? This has no resemblance to copyright law. Not even on the moon.

I drew the moon once. Now I copyright the moon. Ha Ha, made you laugh.

I also had a look at this dude’s t-shirts. Few (if any) of them appear to be original in any way. They are trademarked images and stock art.

Canacreation’s brain burns with the fires of creativity.

The Cheap way is to take copies of everything. Place the original including the list into a sealed envelope that you have signed along the edge. Place that into another sealed envelope you have signed along the seal with a witness signature, and send it too yourself registered mail. When you receive it you DO NOT OPEN IT, but set it aside in case you ever need it.

This doesn’t make sense, either. This also has nothing to do with copyright law. Not even on Jupiter.

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