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[odditycollector]

Thanks to vagabond_sal...

mightygodking was recently banned from LJ for copyright violation.

You know mightygodking. You do. He's the mind behind the improved_archie comm, and that absolutely brilliant re-lettering of the Civil War mini. (You remember, the one that you wished was carried in stores in place of the original.)

mightygodking is a credit to fandom. He is a skilled and accomplished parodist (to my eternal envy), and parody is, of course, a legally valid form of interrogating the text.

Unless you are on LJ, and then it seems to be a bannable offense.

 
As vagabond_sal says:

It seems to me like this is a pretty clear case of LJ saying that they won't recognize the validity of transformative interpretations of texts, which—that's what fandom is all about, no? That's how we keep the fuzz off our backs. Is it just me, or does anybody else see this as a declaration that fandom doesn't have a friend in LJ/SA?

...I think that this is something that fandom needs to talk about--it's no longer a question about us being moral/immoral, it's about fandom not being wanted on LJ, full stop, and I think we as a community need to talk about this before things degrade any further.

 
He's not wrong, guys.

 

Comments

[votemarvel.livejournal.com]

While I appreciate the effort put into creating the parodies, they never struck me as funny because to me they were little more than a bunch of disjoined words that tried to extract the maximum humour from each panel, rather than an attempt to create a cohesive story parody.

However whether I found them good or not is not the point. Comic companies tolerate fanfiction because it does not directly act as competition but I believe that mightygodking was likely acted against because he was using the actual pages from the Civil War comics, he was essentially creating his own version of the Civil War stories using elements (in this case the art), taken directly from Marvel.

Had he used his own original artwork to create the parody, I doubt he would have gotten taken down for copyright infringement.

[red-eft.livejournal.com]

It wasn't Marvel. It was Archie Comics and Scholastic. In the former case, he used only the covers, and later he recreated the covers in photoshop but frankly I think because the cover is such a small portion of the work it would be fair use anyway, and in the latter case he didn't quote the book- it was his own words.

[votemarvel.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I must have misread the original post, I apoligise, I thought it was both.

But you mention the problem yourself, he used original covers and then made recreations in photoshop.

Not originals but recreations, even Marvel got into trouble for "recreating" a picture of the King of Spain for a Magneto one during House of M.