Dead kids and plagiarism
Lots to talk about today! All right, first off…
‘No excuse’ for teen’s Taser death, mother says
Cops kill another kid – - one who didn’t do anything, no less. Where the hell is the outrage?
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Emily the Strange Sues Possible Inspiration Source
Fight Over Comic Character Emily Strange Lands in Court
All right, so… blatantly copying someone else’s work and passing it off as your own? Kind of sleazy. Promoting your (stolen) work with a message of the importance of being unique and being yourself? That’s a bit sleazier, but, y’know, not worth calling for blood, especially since it was just one piece that they retired a while back anyways. And after all, I think it’s arguable that they didn’t steal the character design, just that particular piece of art.
But… pre-emptively suing the people you stole from so they won’t defend their work? That’s pretty reprehensible. Like, really, really sleazy. I confess, they’re not losing much business from me since I was never into Emily to begin with, but please, don’t support this.
When I first saw the original piece and the Emily piece side-by-side, I started to have a flashback to the whole David & Goliath plagiarism issue, but upon re-examining the evidence, there’s no way Cosmic Debris could ever, ever be as bad as Todd Goldman.
Douchebag.
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Next up…
Lead law imperils old children’s books
Kids’ books are being destroyed. FUCK THAT. I’ve been hearing about this for a while, but it didn’t sound like it was actually going to endanger any books or book dealers. Guess I was wrong!
Sorry, seeing books destroyed really, really upsets me. Especially old books. Makes me want to hoard them to protect them.
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Now… to end on a happy note…
Cool guys don’t look at explosions.
Just… watch the video. I laughed till I just about cried.