My your'e an angry one. ok...
A fan made home crafted figure.... no license needed.
A majority of booths at Comic con would not be able to be there if they all needed licenses to sell images or products off the comic character. It comes down to money. Is it worth them suing me for selling 5 or 6 figurines of their character. I seriously doubt it. Fan art keeps characters relevant and alive. This is why Marvel and DC dont upset their fans by coming down on them unless its a huge commercial item.
As for Neal Adams..
Did he pitch me the idea for Bucky o Hare and ask me to make mini figures and I refused and said I dont make minifigures? But then went about producing them anyway cutting him out of hunderds of thousands in royalty?? No...that did not happen, So its not the same situation between Moose and Myself.
One thing at a time...
1. I'm not angry. I find the obliviousness of hypocrisy to be marginally amusing at best, but I mainly see the value in trying to open discussions on the topic of IP appropriation. Which brings me to-
2. Neal Adams isn't Disney or Warner Brothers. He is an artist, not a corporation, and it's his invention that is being coopted... which brings us to-
3. It being something, that after your most recent experience with Moose, I would have thought you to be more sensitive or at least self aware of.
I think you are a talented artist, and would love to see you find success with your craft. I just don't understand how you have internally justified your use of other people's appropriated work while you get frustrated about it being done to you.
Lol... I love you, dude. But I think scale matters! No one is saying a bootleg isn't a bootleg - and yes copyright infringement is wrong. HOWEVER, I think the scale and the implications matter, and as such I think it's unfair when comparing it to the whole Moose Toys/ Snack Attack thing.
Considering you separated the thread last time - as the rest of this thread unfolds, it may be better suited to be on the "intellectual property thread" that you started earlier.
(for whatever my opinion is wroth lol...)
PF
I don't think he's being angry... SNARKY on the other hand lol...
PF
I don't really think the scale matters at all. Theft is theft.
At least he could credit Neal Adams, so people would know where to look for the character.