Red84

On 8/9/2022 at 4:17 PM, onlyweaknesskryptonite said:

On 8/9/2022 at 4:12 PM, DrunkWooky said:

'No Marvel Comics copyright infringement' 

It's too bad that isn't their question to determine. It's a jury question and they'll spend a lot of money vs. Marvel proving that. It looks like an unauthorized derivative work to me that is most definitely prohibited by the copyright act. 

On 8/9/2022 at 4:13 PM, Red84 said:

This is an example of why non-lawyers should not give themselves legal advice.

 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.

If Marvel wants those other "variants" to not be sold at the upcoming conventions, they can make it happen real quickly.

On 8/9/2022 at 4:12 PM, DrunkWooky said:

'No Marvel Comics copyright infringement' 

It's too bad that isn't their question to determine. It's a jury question and they'll spend a lot of money vs. Marvel proving that. It looks like an unauthorized derivative work to me that is most definitely prohibited by the copyright act. 

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

On 8/9/2022 at 2:07 PM, FFB said:

Definitely more transparency is needed here. 

They are already acetate! 

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

Looking forward to this. Enjoyed the first one.

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. 

On 7/7/2022 at 7:42 PM, CGC Mike said:

Graders notes are free to everyone.  

On 6/8/2022 at 3:12 PM, JJ Speederman said:

Top right. I assume it was damaged during encapsulation.

 

 

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.

On 6/7/2022 at 6:29 PM, Bosco685 said:

 

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. 

On 6/7/2022 at 4:54 PM, jsilverjanet said:

I'm sure this isn't the first person who hasn't sent in their gift exchange

 

Well, hopefully it will be the last.

On 6/6/2022 at 6:05 PM, crassus said:

You make a strong point that there was an obligation to exchange, I wouldn't really question that, but why is this HoS and not PL? 

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.

On 6/6/2022 at 3:59 PM, DavidTheDavid said:

Then I don't see what we gain with a HOS nomination.

Just keep a Scrooge list and leave it at that.

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.

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.

On 6/4/2022 at 6:53 PM, CGC Mike said:

On 6/2/2022 at 5:44 PM, Red84 said:

@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?

 

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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! 

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.

On 6/4/2022 at 12:04 PM, crassus said:

When you say did it twice, do you mean currently at the same time to two different members in the gift exchange, or that he has done this previously or in another instance in addition to the gift exchange?

My understanding is that he failed to send out the raffle gift and failed to send out the gift exchange gift. 

On 6/4/2022 at 10:47 AM, DavidTheDavid said:

I agree with this. I think it speaks poorly of us to nominate someone for the HoS over a gift thread. The only thing we seem to know is that he vanished from the boards. There's no clear evidence of intent or malfeasance. Speaking for myself, I wouldn't want to participate in a holiday thread where a possible outcome is being permanently impugned on a Hall of Shame. This in itself feels shameful to me.

I think the evidence of intent is that he did it twice. 

On 6/2/2022 at 11:05 PM, Red84 said:

I voted HOS. I view this conduct in a gift exchange to be an aggravating factor. Same with him being a two time offender. 

@RockMyAmadeusFeel free to enlighten us as to what you find "confusing" about my post. 

I voted HOS. I view this conduct in a gift exchange to be an aggravating factor. Same with him being a two time offender. 

On 6/2/2022 at 7:55 PM, CGC Mike said:

I will find out.

Thanks Mike! 

@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?