It's difficult to give someone who does so many asshole dances attention because, well, you figure they're doing their dance because they learned (perhaps unconsciously) that it gets them attention.
But you get attention when you speak out, too. Which is why I joined the Hero Initiative and made a donation just now.
Wow, my credit in Kurtz just took a nose dive. Particularly at the part where he says "It's all fixed now because they changed the copyright laws to have better protections for creators".
The didn't. Copyright laws have been changed almost exclusively in the benefit of distributors. "Work for Hire" still exist in the US. It is still standard practice in many industries to screw the writer.
And even if you do the dance, get an agent, try to protect your creative interest as best as you can, "screw the writer, take the profits" is still leading US Showbiz.
In the MighyGodKing post you link to someone in the comments pointed out a link where Kurtz had the TOTAL OPPOSITE stance two years ago in regard to the X-Men franchise and Dave Cockrum. Making Kurtz' current attention grabbing even more bizarre...
Though this does remind me (again) that I should go over my next two week's budget and see if I can donate to the Hero Initiative or the like...
no, that kurtz flipped his behavior like that makes perfect sense. he wanted to have a very controversial opinion so he could be a relevant talking point in his industry, and his own artistic works aren't going to provide that.
i used to think he was just a very dull person hopping on the webcomics bandwagon, but i've yet to hear about anything non-assholish he's done...
There, I just donated you guys some money so you can make quirky trivia cutouts next time. There is no excuse for anything preventing you from sharing your massive database of trivial knowledge, because it should be shared with the world.
However, the CAM page returned a 404 after I donated.
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God, I hate the business. I hate it. Peace out.
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The perfect description.
It's difficult to give someone who does so many asshole dances attention because, well, you figure they're doing their dance because they learned (perhaps unconsciously) that it gets them attention.
But you get attention when you speak out, too. Which is why I joined the Hero Initiative and made a donation just now.
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The didn't. Copyright laws have been changed almost exclusively in the benefit of distributors. "Work for Hire" still exist in the US. It is still standard practice in many industries to screw the writer.
And even if you do the dance, get an agent, try to protect your creative interest as best as you can, "screw the writer, take the profits" is still leading US Showbiz.
Ask Dan Harmon.
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Though this does remind me (again) that I should go over my next two week's budget and see if I can donate to the Hero Initiative or the like...
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i used to think he was just a very dull person hopping on the webcomics bandwagon, but i've yet to hear about anything non-assholish he's done...
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However, the CAM page returned a 404 after I donated.
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