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Category Archives: Writing
It’s Emperor Mollusk Month!!
It’s strange, but I don’t often talk about the business of writing. Especially my own business. Like all novelologist, I am basically a small business owner. I create a product, partner with a publisher, and together, we bring that product to the fine folks out there. It might be a bit mercantile to use the [...]
Also posted in Blog Tagged Books, E Book, Emperor, Excuse, Goofy, Horrible Problem, Love, Loyal Fans, Mass Market, Own Business, Paycheck, Piracy, Pirate, Plateau, Pleasure, Product Partner, Small Business Owner, Strange, Trademark Law, Weird 8 Comments
Copywrong, part 2
My last post about copyright / trademark law brought in a surprising amount of traffic. It’s a complicated issue, and too often, people seem to think that copyright / trademark should be an All or Nothing affair. Either you should own the rights to something you created forever. Or you should never own them. This [...]
Also posted in Blog, Comic Books, Movies Tagged Amount Of Traffic, Bonus, Creativity, Creators, False Dilemma, Grandchildren, Hard Time, Harry Potter, Intellectual Property, J K Rowling, Laurels, Notion, Paycheck, Public Domain, Rest Of My Life, Right This Moment, Royalties, Stagnation, Thirty Years, Trademark Law 1 Comment
Copywrong
It’s time to admit that the concept of copyright has gone horribly, horribly wrong. In theory, copyright is there to protect artists and creators, to allow them to make money off their work, and to encourage creativity. In practice, it just leads to stagnation and to corporations profiting off of characters they simply are fortunate [...]
Also posted in Blog, Comic Books, Movies Tagged Batman, Capable Writers, Comic Book, Commercial Success, Corporations, Creativity, Creators, Decades, Dilemma, Expiration Date, Fact Of The Matter, Franchises, Increasing Sales, James Bond, Machine Dc, Profits, Reboot, Spider Man, Spider Man Movie, Stagnation, Superman, Telling A Good Story, Whim 7 Comments
Villain or Hero