[Groop] wolverine vs groo on ebay

[Chris Schechner]

Janet,

I agree with all you said. That was very well thought out and well stated.
(And I¹m not just saying that because I agree with you.) Hear hear! (or is
that ³here here!²?)

Chris



on 5/14/05 10:21 PM, Pengyfelix at aol.com at Pengyfelix at aol.com wrote:

> Personally, I have never downloaded or copied movies, music, etc. and that
> isn't just because I'm technologically inept.  Can't say I'm entirely innocent
> though.  I'd be willing to lay kopins that I'm not the only one on this list
> that has patronized the pirated DVD booths at cons.  Sure, we all know they're
> illegally copied/sold videos, even if the seller slaps a disclamer that he/she
> believes this material is in the public domain (saw that one on Star
> Wars--yeah right).  My moral justification is that we're trolling those booths
> for programs that have never been professionally released for the home video
> market (e.g. Star Wars Christmas Special), and we're not buying the bootleg
> Spiderman 2 or whatever.  We buy the professional releases of the programs or
> movies when they are available, but certain things are simply not out there on
> the non-pirated market.  I'd give the producer/writer/artist his cut if they
> would just put it out there for me to buy from them, but until they do...
> Sure that's just excusing something that I know good and well is a violation
> of US copyright laws.  I've not lost sleep over it.
>  
> As for the resale of artwork on eBay, I'll just reiterate what has become, I
> think, the consensus:  people who get sketches from artists for the express
> purpose of selling them are jerks, and not just because they make the lines
> longer for us legitimate fans.  However, if you got a sketch from a favorite
> artist, then fall on hard economic times, it is a painful decision to part
> with your sketch to make the rent payment this month.  Knowing that you had to
> hawk your beloved artwork for a roof over your head is bad enough without us
> self-righteously emailing "tsk-tsk" from our comfy, warm computers.  Between
> those two ends, there is a lot of grey area that ME and Sergio, being the
> interested parties, assess on a case-by-case basis.  All we need to do is
> bring it to their attention.  I think, as a Groop, we're pretty good at doing
> that, and they're pretty good at nabbing genuine offenders.
>  
> Janet
>  
>  
> 
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