Comic Book Legal Defense Fundさんのイラストまとめ

Note the LL.B. on the sweater of P.K. (Paul Kast) outside a caricatured EC office - LL.B. means Bachelor of Laws, which used to be the standard law degree until law schools leveled it up to J.D. (juris doctor) to sound more impressive. https://t.co/WbnTQGOTiQ

Before our legal posts, a historical apertif: how photos of Comics-Code censored GhouLunatics
@eccomics paid for an employee's law school. The linked behind-the-scenes photos, from former "office boy" Paul Kast to Annie Gaines Ashton, show photo shoot. https://t.co/gzMjkUIqLG

@ComicsintheGA If it's not clear why I'd RT the birthday of Jerry Siegel, check out Super Boys @BradJRicca, The Trials of Superman + posts @20thCenturyDan, & my posts @comicsbeat & Blog @newsarama on Superman copyright lawsuits (#jefftrexler)

I say this because it's different from rhetorical framing of court language, which is about absolutes - justice/injustice, rights/wrongs, etc. That helps promote authority of legal decisions, which characterizing as series of betting rules and outcome probabilities would not.

Congratulations 2020 MacArthur Fellow @nkjemisin!

This late 1980s incident shows how quickly attitudes can change. In the '70s avant garde comic riffs on religious imagery were more common, even mainstream -as in Swamp Thing #2 (1972), where Swamp Thing is graphically martyred (by chains) on an X-form cross.

In Action #6, Superman disposes with the scammers through a physical fight, but IP owners and licensees don't have that option, at least legally. As more fans become licensees, the question of who defends IP against fakes is becoming particularly pressing.

One of my (JT's) all-time favorite comics stories is in Action #6, in which Clark Kent is startled to discover an unauthorized Superman licensing operation, complete with a Superman impersonator.

Licensing has been an integral part of comics from the beginning - even Siegel and Shuster were able to renegotiate their deal to get a cut. But with licensing come counterfeits and knockoffs – along with IP defense.

A statement from the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund Board: https://t.co/0WtCWonQJq