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<FONT face=Verdana>I'm not so sure. Once you've purchased the comic you can do anything you want to it and you can resell it. But I do not believe you can use it to improve the value of another item and then sell that decorated item without permission. It's not that they have taken an actual coimic that is the issue, it's that they have taken a copyrighted character and used it to sell their cheesy wallets. </FONT><BR>
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<FONT face=Verdana>I think it really comes down to whether it's enough of a violation for Mark & Sergio to care. As for the Big Boys, it's been my observation that huge corporations take more notice of copyright violations by tiny businesses than other small businesses. But then, other small businesses don't have a battery of attorneys on retainer.</FONT><BR>
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<FONT face=Verdana>Gary G. (Surrounded by attorneys!) </FONT><FONT face=Verdana></FONT><BR>
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To: GaryG@DOR.WA.GOV; groop@groo.com<BR>Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 18:31:08 -0400<BR>From: bodhikt@aol.com<BR>Subject: Re: [Groop] Wallet<BR><BR><FONT color=black size=2 face=arial><BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 3px"><PRE><TT>He'll decide what to do. I imagine DC & Marvel might be interested as
well. </TT></PRE></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><FONT class=ecxApple-style-span size=2 face=arial>It looks like the wallet-maker is using pages from comic books, and not copies s/he made, so it's not a copyright violation. </FONT><FONT class=ecxApple-style-span face=arial>Sacrilegious</FONT><FONT class=ecxApple-style-span size=2 face=arial> to treat books that way, IMO, but probably legal. </FONT>
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<DIV><FONT class=ecxApple-style-span size=2 face=arial>Kaytee</FONT></DIV></FONT><BR>_______________________________________________ Groop mailing list Groop@groo.com http://mailman.newdream.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/groop </body>
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