REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

The State is not going to send in the army if you try to make an unauthorised film of Jerusalem, Herr Weber.

They will command that you stop publishing. If you do not they will fine you. If you refuse to pay the fines (as a rational agent who takes appropriate measures to prevent their rights from being violated), they will send police to take you to prison. If you refuse to go, and defend yourself by killing the police, they will send more police. Eventually, you will have to face the army.

>If you shoot at people, they will shoot back.
No fooling?

What would be alan moore's opinion on pepe's affect on the elections. Will it make him discredit western comics forever or would he be smart enough to only blame the fans?

>affect
* effect, user.

Even if you're a bootlicking authoritarian Nazi commie fascist cuck, and you do things paying taxes and not shooting police officers, the fact is that Moore is threatening to send armed bullies to steal your money if you make an adaption of his works.

That's not the point of that post, stop acting retarded.

*do things like
Damn the public education system.

>Nazi commie fascist
I trust your reasoning unreservedly.

>the fact is that you will be expected to pay a fine if you try to turn a profit from someone else's labour without their consent.

All you statist fucks are the same
>let's build a gigantic gang, order people around, and shoot them if they don't listen

user, there are treatments for male hysteria. Do yourself a favour and seek them out.

>LaughingStanLee.bmp

>turn a profit from someone else's labour
This isn't immoral here.

Even if you think intellectual """"property"""" is a good idea, it exists is to reward people who create IP.

In this case, Moore won't benefit either way, so there's literally nothing wrong with creating derivative works without his permission.

Moore would probably have a heart attack looking at TV Tropes's big adaptation displacement list.

>Intellectual property rights ensure that the creator is remunerated for the use of their property.
You don't say?

>So it follows that Moore should be excluded from moneys earned in the production and sale of unauthorised adaptations.
No.

>Profit is the only reason to defend your property.
>If someone else can make money of your ideas without your permission, it is okay if you weren't planning on making money in the first place.
>The goverment is made out of facists because they will use punishment and force to stop you from stealing things.
Okay.

He took the check for the Watchmen movie though, didn't he? He made just enough on licensing to be comfortable.

>dont write my character grant
>writes loeg with other peoples characters
What did he mean by this

>What is the public domain? What is a franchise? What is parody? Might these questions have a bearing on the subject?

>using public domain characters is okay
>using characters owned by a corporation is wrong
Funny how he didn't have that problem when he wrote Batman, Superman, and Green Lantern.

...

No, he gave it to Gibbons.

> dont write my character grant
And Grant feels 100% the same way about Zenith
And Gaiman feels the same way about Dream

Not who you're responding to, but what's being stolen? What is being taken from Moore's hands and put into your own? Emphasis on the first part of that. If he still has unchanged access to whatever it is, then it's not stealing. Try the fuck again.

IP is a fucking joke designed to shaft folks.

So a satirical take on Moore's characters would be a-okay in his book? Somehow, I have difficulty believing that.

The difference is Grant and Neil own those characters.
Moore knowingly and willingly gave his characters to DC

>own those characters.
No DC owns Dream, but they gave Neil a special deal that they didn't give Moore.

Much in the same way James Robinson does not own Jack Knight Starman, but he had to approve of any use of the character

Actually, the idea of copyright was originally allow people to make money off of their own creations for at least a limited amount of time, before the Idea-Vultures could legally descend, rather than having the work of their intellect immediately taken and used to profit thieves.

Thanks to Disney not wanting to give up its stranglehold on The Mouse after a reasonable time of milking it for everything it's worth, copyright has been extended to godawful lengths of time, which is the only problem with Intellectual Property today.

Anyone against individual creators getting their just due from their labors, or against those same creators keeping others from utilizing their IP for whatever reason, for a reasonable amount of time, are creeps, layabouts, and thieves.

Totally bugfuck.

*to allow

>So a satirical take on Moore's characters would be a-okay in his book?
Whether it would be legal and whether he would condone it are two separate issues, user.

I imagine that the question of who owns the rights to Zenith is about as straightforward as who owns the rights to Halo Jones:

eruditorumpress.com/blog/all-known-and-unknown-things-the-last-war-in-albion-part-103-the-not-end-of-halo-jones/

And as user has pointed out (), DC owns Dream.