Over at The Comics Journal website Michael Dean posted an article about how the Harvey Kurtzman Estate (represented by Denis Kitchen) and Al Feldstein filed to “regain” the copyrights to their EC Comics work.
Feldstein and the Bill Gaines estate reached an agreement – undisclosed, of course – but the Kurtzman situation is more complex. Kurtzman created Mad, he wrote it, he did the layouts for his artists and he drew a modicum of the material as well. But it’s Mad and Mad is owned by Time Warner. It’s a teevee show on one of Time Warner’s cablenets. The magazine might not be very profitable any longer, but the brand name most certainly is.
Be that as it may, I put the word “regain” in quotation marks because, well, Al and Harvey never had those copyrights in the first place. EC Publications and its sundry successors in interest always held them.
Feldstein and the Bill Gaines estate reached an agreement – undisclosed, of course – but the Kurtzman situation is more complex. Kurtzman created Mad, he wrote it, he did the layouts for his artists and he drew a modicum of the material as well. But it’s Mad and Mad is owned by Time Warner. It’s a teevee show on one of Time Warner’s cablenets. The magazine might not be very profitable any longer, but the brand name most certainly is.
Be that as it may, I put the word “regain” in quotation marks because, well, Al and Harvey never had those copyrights in the first place. EC Publications and its sundry successors in interest always held them.
- 11/14/2012
- by Mike Gold
- Comicmix.com
Filed under: Features
The poofs were out in full force Thursday night in anticipation of a visit from one of the most controversial people on television -- 'Jersey Shore' star Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi.
"If any of you are wearing bump-its, I'm going to f***ing kill you," Polizzi told the amped crowd of nearly 1,000 people gathered at the Binghamton University event. The upstate New Yorkers saw Snooki judge an ab contest, give some fist-pumping lessons and talk about her life with her shore mates.
Snooki took part in a Q&A led by comedian Michael Dean Esther, then answered questions from the audience about her decision to go on the show, her castmates and her plans for the future.
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The poofs were out in full force Thursday night in anticipation of a visit from one of the most controversial people on television -- 'Jersey Shore' star Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi.
"If any of you are wearing bump-its, I'm going to f***ing kill you," Polizzi told the amped crowd of nearly 1,000 people gathered at the Binghamton University event. The upstate New Yorkers saw Snooki judge an ab contest, give some fist-pumping lessons and talk about her life with her shore mates.
Snooki took part in a Q&A led by comedian Michael Dean Esther, then answered questions from the audience about her decision to go on the show, her castmates and her plans for the future.
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- 10/9/2010
- by Elena Cox
- Aol TV.
Driving past the recently “Ex” Ackerminimansion onto the ever-congested Hollywood freeway, I had the feeling you get at the beginning of a nasty flu or on the morning of a newly minted depression. I felt like I was standing over my own shoulder, shaking my head at myself. No matter the spin I put on it, I was motoring toward the final nail in the coffin of an era. A nail called: the Forrest J Ackerman Estate Auction. The era that was ending had practically built me. Maybe you too?
In the 45 minutes it took to clear Hollywood and touch the far edge of the San Fernando Valley, I thought a lot about Forry and how he might be feeling if he were sitting next to me on this trip …
4E: Well, pal. Woulda’ liked for the collection to have ended up in a museum. I’ll never understand how...
In the 45 minutes it took to clear Hollywood and touch the far edge of the San Fernando Valley, I thought a lot about Forry and how he might be feeling if he were sitting next to me on this trip …
4E: Well, pal. Woulda’ liked for the collection to have ended up in a museum. I’ll never understand how...
- 6/1/2009
- by GoJoeMoe
- DreadCentral.com
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