http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2007/comics-pirates/ The Best In Sci-Fi & Fantasy, News, Reviews, Graphic Novels, comics and more! Wed, 23 May 2012 10:19:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4918 http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2007/comics-pirates/comment-page-1/#comment-82260 The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log » More pirates - what about the Creative Commons approach? Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:33:48 +0000 http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/?p=4397#comment-82260 [...] Following on from yesterday’s thoughts on comics piracy there’s quite a lot of discussion going on about the subject, noticeably on Warren Ellis’ The Engine forum (link via Dirk at Journalista). Cutting through the moral arguments over intellectual property theft and the possible effects on creators, publishers and retailers The Engine simply posted the question “what sites do you use?” I found the ensuing forum discussion quite interesting - some of it does seem to confirm some of my own suspicions that there may not be as much in the way of lost sales as some might think because when someone does read online it isn’t necessarily instead of buying the print comic, they are reading something they wouldn’t have bought, which, as I pointed out before, could offer a possible new avenue for the comics biz to exploit in terms of hooking more potential readers who develop a taste for the material online and find they now want to buy the actual comics. I would add one proviso here though – most of the discussion, I think it would be fair to say, is coming from people who are active comics fans, which may not be the case with the bulk of the 90, 000 plus folks who downloaded Sin City for example. [...] [...] Following on from yesterday’s thoughts on comics piracy there’s quite a lot of discussion going on about the subject, noticeably on Warren Ellis’ The Engine forum (link via Dirk at Journalista). Cutting through the moral arguments over intellectual property theft and the possible effects on creators, publishers and retailers The Engine simply posted the question “what sites do you use?” I found the ensuing forum discussion quite interesting – some of it does seem to confirm some of my own suspicions that there may not be as much in the way of lost sales as some might think because when someone does read online it isn’t necessarily instead of buying the print comic, they are reading something they wouldn’t have bought, which, as I pointed out before, could offer a possible new avenue for the comics biz to exploit in terms of hooking more potential readers who develop a taste for the material online and find they now want to buy the actual comics. I would add one proviso here though – most of the discussion, I think it would be fair to say, is coming from people who are active comics fans, which may not be the case with the bulk of the 90, 000 plus folks who downloaded Sin City for example. [...]

]]> http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2007/comics-pirates/comment-page-1/#comment-82255 Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics Journal » Blog Archive » June 27, 2007: Daredevil goes to a gay bar Wed, 27 Jun 2007 08:42:59 +0000 http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/?p=4397#comment-82255 [...] The Forbidden Planet Blog offers commentary on the recent discussions of online comics piracy, from a retailer’s perspective. (Further examination of the topic can be found at The Engine. Shit, now I’ve gone and muddied up the categories. Where do I put this? Fuck it, I’m leavin’ it here.) [...] [...] The Forbidden Planet Blog offers commentary on the recent discussions of online comics piracy, from a retailer’s perspective. (Further examination of the topic can be found at The Engine. Shit, now I’ve gone and muddied up the categories. Where do I put this? Fuck it, I’m leavin’ it here.) [...]

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