Archive - Jul 22, 2003 - Story
The Public Domain: Good For Comics!
Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on July 22, 2003 - 16:47
This article opines on why the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was so good and why the movie was so bad. In part it was because while all of the characters were in the public domain for print some were still subject to copyright for film (The Invisible Man being the primary example who was renamed An Invisible Man for the movie).
SlashDot Weighs in on Micropayments
Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on July 22, 2003 - 12:15
Slashdot provides more musings on micropayments, including Bitpass, the new system used by Scott McCloud for The Right Number webcomic.
UPDATE Almost missed this NY Times article also on micropayments that also mentions the McCloudster. One thing the article mentions that I think has not been previously reported on is that McCloud owns a small part of Bitpass:
When the BitPass founders showed him their plan, he said he liked it and agreed to use BitPass to sell comics on his Web site (www.scottmccloud.com) and to serve as an adviser. He now also owns a small, undisclosed stake in the company.
