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Red84

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  1. he googled it on LegalZoom.com first! I was set up at a convention once selling my original artwork which is collage where I use hundreds of pieces of comics to make the image. The guy set up next to me had the gall to accuse me of copyright infringement when all he was selling was simple drawings of individual comic book characters. What he was selling was clearly copyright infringement while what I was selling was artwork that was transformative fair use. Everyone seems to think they are lawyers.
  2. If Marvel wants those other "variants" to not be sold at the upcoming conventions, they can make it happen real quickly.
  3. Likelihood of confusion as to origin. It was made for a commercial purpose. This reminds me a lot of the controversy last year when L'il Nas X added art to Nikes and real quickly got a cease and desist because Nike didn't want their product associated with the message being added. https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/nike-sues-over-lil-nas-x-satan-shoes-human-blood-n1262406
  4. This is an example of why non-lawyers should not give themselves legal advice.
  5. I’m more concerned with how half the graded books got a 9.9 or 10. Are we really to believe that previously made books were handled, had 2 extra staples added to them and are still 9.9 and 10? Would the books before the extra cover was added have gotten a 9.9 or 10? It is not just the cover that determines the grade. Are we to believe these were 9.9 and 10s before? Come on. Not believable.
  6. Hi Everyone. I use inexpensive comic books to make collages. I entered one of my pieces in a contest to have it put on a billboard. I need 100 votes to be considered (I currently have 13). Please vote for me via the link below: https://fineartamerica.com/contests/billboard-contest-2022.html?tab=vote&artworkid=34582407
  7. Just finished season 4. Loved it. However, the actor who plays Will is so unbearably awful at acting. It kind of takes you out of the show. I wish they would eliminate Will and Mike from the show. Both characters are useless and annoying.
  8. This looks like an example of a book where the cover overhangs the pages and then when the book moves during shipping the overhang is crushed against the inner well. It sucks and has seemingly always been a problem that is difficult to avoid.
  9. My prediction is the other person sharing his mental disorder is the person who becomes what we know as the actual Joker. So I would expect him to be younger, in his 20’s, so that the timeline matches up with Batman.
  10. That is something I have actually been going back and forth on. If it was one instance, then I would probably vote PL, but he took advantage of 2 separate gift exchanges (the holiday gift exchange and the raffle). The raffle occurs after the holiday exchange. He was already late to deliver the holiday gift at the time that he had no problem taking 2 raffle prizes. If he was having problems completing the holiday gift then he could have pulled out of the raffle. But he didn't. Instead, he accepted the holiday gift and accepted the raffle prizes, all while not shipping anything out. It is that second bad act that pushed it to HOS for me. That's not to say that he couldn't return, give an explanation, make amends, and get himself removed from the list. But as it stands now, with the information we have available, I think it is HOS worthy, though by the slimmest of margins.
  11. Don't think of it as a gift; think of it as failing to send his half of a trade. With the holiday gift exchange Person A sends gift to Person B; Person B sends gift to Person C; Person C sends gift to Person A. There is a clear exchange of this for that, it just happens to include more than 2 people. If someone is willing to accept a gift but not send their gift out then it is no different than accepting a trade and never sending out your half of the trade.
  12. If this were a regular transaction I would have voted for PL. But I consider taking advantage of holiday threads and board generosity to be an aggravating factor. That's why I voted HOS. I completely understand those who would add him only to the PL.
  13. A seller can provide the CGC Grader Notes for any collectible that they are selling. They should only display CGC Grader Notes on an individualized basis, not in an aggregated form (i.e., not as a searchable database, since that’s what our website is for). Thank you for this clarification!
  14. I would be more inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt except for the fact that he did not send his part of the holiday gift exchange. Those gifts are supposed to be received by Christmas. He was still posting on January 19th. 4 weeks late on his gift. I too hope nothing bad happened to him. Hopefully he is just a flake and therefore HOS worthy.
  15. My understanding is that he failed to send out the raffle gift and failed to send out the gift exchange gift.
  16. I think the evidence of intent is that he did it twice.
  17. @RockMyAmadeusFeel free to enlighten us as to what you find "confusing" about my post.
  18. I voted HOS. I view this conduct in a gift exchange to be an aggravating factor. Same with him being a two time offender.
  19. @CGC MikeDoes CGC consider a seller providing the graders notes to a buyer as a prohibited "commercial purpose"? This becomes particularly relevant if CGC is removing information from the label but is listing that information behind a paywall in the grader's notes. Does CGC consider the provision of graders notes by a seller to a buyer to be a breach of the seller's agreement with CGC? Will CGC permit sellers on this forum to post the graders notes for the books they list for sale on this forum?