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blake_reitz (blake_reitz) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-11-07 23:31:00

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char: impulse/kid flash/bart allen, char: superboy/kon-el/conner kent, creator: todd dezago, creator: todd nauck, publisher: dc comics, title: young justice

Some perfectly legal Young Justice
As much as I love YJ, there is an obvious barrier to me posting it here. Luckily, there's a handful of pages from Young Justice #22, by Todd's Dezago and Nauck.

The setup: This issue is pretty much filler after a major story arc (Sins of Youth), guesting various writers and artists. Superboy lost his powers, and is getting by on gadgets from Cadamus. While other characters are off learning lessons with their older counterparts, Bart and Secret decide to help out...

Funny, I never thought how Kon's costume here resembles his current pants and shirt "costume".

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Re: Wait a minute.

galateus
2009-11-11 01:19 am UTC (link)

That's because until he disavowed that, he didn't seem to have any official position. All we can do is infer from his actions, that he'll report anything he judges to be copyright infringement if he sees it.

What he did say was I am very clear, though, on what is and is not copyright violation. I think we all are. The rest is just excuses and rationalizations. But how much there has to be before he thinks it's his duty to fire off an email is completely up in the air.

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Re: Wait a minute.

freddylloyd
2009-11-11 01:59 am UTC (link)

In quoting from a comment from Peter David toward the bottom of that page, you apparently missed his statement in the original posting at the top: "Writing a critical review and posting up a panel or a page to illustrate a point falls under fair use. Posting over half the book while saying, 'This happened, then this happened, then this happened,' is not remotely fair use and a blatant copyright violation."

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	Re: Wait a minute. galateus 2009-11-11 02:31 am UTC (link)
	I did see that; he doesn't mention anything about the nebulous middle of the spectrum between "a panel or a page" and "over half" (which wasn't really an accurate description of the X-Factor post). There's just no way to know how his personal judgment will work for in-between cases. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Re: Wait a minute.

freddylloyd
2009-11-11 03:20 am UTC (link)

I'm sorry, I thought when you wrote that Peter David "didn't seem to have any official position," you meant he'd expressed no position except the words you quoted. Apparently your point was that his earlier, more specific words didn't spell out exactly what he'd consider fair use.

Of course, fair use is a deliberately misty part of copyright law that depends a lot on context, so David couldn't spell out helpful guidelines for us, especially in regard to work owned by other copyright-holders. All that's already been said.

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