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[meta] the Cow Tools Daily account on Bluesky was suspended because of a copyright takedown notice from Andrews McMeel publishing (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 days ago by FauxPseudo@lemmy.world to c/ComicStripEdits@lemmy.world

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The rights holders clearly don't understand fair use, non commercial use, parody or transformative use.

send calls for @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social being reinstated directly to moderation@blueskyweb.xyz if you can help.

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[–] RustyNova@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Time to join the fediverse :)

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Corporate lawyers doing their thang, or is there a twist to this one?

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Everything I know is included here. Pretty sure it's a blind DMCA and they are unaware of the damage this will do to the brand.

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

So yeah, corporate lawyers & headless chickens need the right legal pushback and hopefully, retribution? Either or, I'm working on a community update which will feature this, plus some notes upon this particular variety of bullshit; thank you.

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Wasn't there a copyright case with Dave Sim and Marvel about fair use and parody? He won and the next cover was a full parody of the marvel hero frame from Spider-Man? I can't find any example of it but I remember it being a thing 30+ years ago.

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Cerebus was a brief obsession of mine in the... late 80's / early 90's? As I recall it, he specifically went out of his way to parody and piss-off any number of IP's, and in fact went on to be a super-good influence / pioneer upon future alt-comix in general. Despite being... well, he's a bit debatable as a person, I guess. Anyway, he had a bunch of lawsuits upon a lot of people / properties, IIRC.

Could it be that Spider-Venom thing, you're remembering?

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Could be. It's all hazy.

Full disclosure, I have almost every issue of Glamourpuss. When he wasn't being him he was doing an awesome job on the history of photo realism in comics and the death of Flash Gordon artist Alex Raymond.

But it was also filled with a lot of Dave Sim's problems.