Blaine23 Posted December 20, 2004 Posted December 20, 2004 (edited) The article also doesn't mention that McFarlane lost the rights to the Medieval Spawn and the Angela characters to Neil Gaiman, who had co-created them when he wrote the script for Spawn #8. Both characters had starred in various spinoffs series and mini-series. Neil Gaiman was looking for royalties for those characters and wasn't receiving them, so he sued and won. Yay Gaiman! I wasn't aware of the that. Yay for Gaiman! Damn skippy. The Tony Twist ruling is a bit sad for free-speech, but McFarlane deserves to be slapped around for the B.S. he's tried to pull with Gaiman. Hopefully all of this will boil down to someone re-releasing the incredible Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman runs of Miracleman which have been kept in Todd's vault for the last 15 years or so. All these lawsuits, and yet Rob Liefield is still a free man? I tell you, there's no justice in the world. BWA! Sure, he may be free... but there's simply got to be some kind of price on that doofus' head by now, BSU. If not, I'll pitch in a few extra bucks. Edited December 20, 2004 by Blaine23 Quote
EXO Posted December 20, 2004 Posted December 20, 2004 Ironically, McFarlane hired Gaiman for the 4 issue "creator's" series. Where 4 different creators wrote stories for Spawn, to honor what Image stood for.... creator's rights. The other writers were Frank Miller, Dave Sim, and Alan Moore. Quote
phoenix01 Posted December 20, 2004 Posted December 20, 2004 It was a lawsuit. Civil suits don't have juries. Actually, the U.S. Constitution Bill of Rights Amendment VII says: "In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law." Back when the Constitution was written, $20 was a lot more money. Kind of like $2000 would be today. So to ensure that cases dealing with that much money were fairly prosecuted, a jury was required. Of course $20 is nothing today, but the cost of trying to get the Amendment changed would be prohibitive for the issue involved. So if you want to keep a jury out of the picture, sue for $19.99. Quote
dr_vandermeer Posted December 20, 2004 Posted December 20, 2004 Here's a recent and thorough look at what is known from a factual standpoint: http://www.newsarama.com/forums/showthread...&threadid=23737 Some interesting points brought up. Quote
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