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cuccoway · 18 days

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How about you cook in the studio for MCR5 Mikey

#my chemical romance #mcr #mikey way #gerard way #frank iero #ray toro #mcr5 #mcr5 is real #shots fired #cucco posts

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hellsrings-radio-synz-777 · 3 months

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#hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel spoilers #alastor #daaaam son you did not hold back #no fucks given #shots fired #no survivors

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ecoamerica · 13 days

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Watch the American Climate Leadership Awards 2024 now: https://youtu.be/bWiW4Rp8vF0?feature=shared

The American Climate Leadership Awards 2024 broadcast recording is now available on ecoAmerica's YouTube channel for viewers to be inspired by active climate leaders. Watch to find out which finalist received the $50,000 grand prize! Hosted by Vanessa Hauc and featuring Bill McKibben and Katharine Hayhoe!

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enbycrip · 4 months

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Shots fired 😁

(Imagine how exquisitely edged with sarcasm Crowley’s Beaker noises would be).

#muppet christmas carol #good omens #good omens 2 #ineffable husbands #ineffable idiots #ineffable dickens #shots fired

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javelinbk · 9 months

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Paul McCartney puts George Martin in his place. The Beatles: Get Back, part three

#knight vs knight #shots fired #etc etc #what if… what if paul was the daddy in the paul/gm dynamic?#did I just say that out loud?#I love/hate this whole scene #paul finally wants to have a proper talk with just the two/four of them #and everyone else just wants to get involved #they really just needed to be locked in a room together for an hour #also john is saying ‘backs against the wall’ in that second gif #🥹#paul mccartney #john lennon #george martin #the beatles #get back #javelin’s gifs #javelin’s gifs: get back

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starfieldcanvas · 1 year

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#teen wolf #arden cho #celebrities #dylan o'brien #shots fired #fandom #dove.txt #i knew there would eventually be a benefit to following the entire teen wolf cast on Twitter

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austinbutlermischief · 8 months

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#austin butler #joeykinz edits things #these ysl pictures are going to be the death of the fandom #shots fired

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boujee-marsh · 3 months

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How is Katt Williams not trending?! That interview was a bloody killing spree shots fired everywhere

#katt williams #shots fired #goddamn massacre #kings of comedy #shannon sharpe #steve harvey #cedric the entertainer #kevin hart #rickey smiley #ice cube #friday after next #faizon love #ludacris

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thehydromancer · 7 months

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Fables Press Release

Subject: Fables Enters the Public Domain

15 September 2023

By Bill Willingham

For Immediate Release

The Lede

As of now, 15 September 2023, the comic book property called Fables, including all related Fables spin-offs and characters, is now in the public domain. What was once wholly owned by Bill Willingham is now owned by everyone, for all time. It’s done, and as most experts will tell you, once done it cannot be undone. Take-backs are neither contemplated nor possible.

Q: Why Did You Do This?

A number of reasons. I’ve thought this over for some time. In no particular order they are:

1) Practicality: When I first signed my creator-owned publishing contract with DC Comics, the company was run by honest men and women of integrity, who (for the most part) interpreted the details of that agreement fairly and above-board. When problems inevitably came up we worked it out, like reasonable men and women. Since then, over the span of twenty years or so, those people have left or been fired, to be replaced by a revolving door of strangers, of no measurable integrity, who now choose to interpret every facet of our contract in ways that only benefit DC Comics and its owner companies. At one time the Fables properties were in good hands, and now, by virtue of attrition and employee replacement, the Fables properties have fallen into bad hands.

Since I can’t afford to sue DC, to force them to live up to the letter and the spirit of our long-time agreements; since even winning such a suit would take ridiculous amounts of money out of my pocket and years out of my life (I’m 67 years old, and don’t have the years to spare), I’ve decided to take a different approach, and fight them in a different arena, inspired by the principles of asymmetric warfare. The one thing in our contract the DC lawyers can’t contest, or reinterpret to their own benefit, is that I am the sole owner of the intellectual property. I can sell it or give it away to whomever I want.

I chose to give it away to everyone. If I couldn’t prevent Fables from falling into bad hands, at least this is a way I can arrange that it also falls into many good hands. Since I truly believe there are still more good people in the world than bad ones, I count it as a form of victory.

2) Philosophy: In the past decade or so, my thoughts on how to reform the trademark and copyright laws in this country (and others, I suppose) have undergone something of a radical transformation. The current laws are a mishmash of unethical backroom deals to keep trademarks and copyrights in the hands of large corporations, who can largely afford to buy the outcomes they want.

In my template for radical reform of those laws I would like it if any IP is owned by its original creator for up to twenty years from the point of first publication, and then goes into the public domain for any and all to use. However, at any time before that twenty year span bleeds out, you the IP owner can sell it to another person or corporate entity, who can have exclusive use of it for up to a maximum of ten years. That’s it. Then it cannot be resold. It goes into the public domain. So then, at the most, any intellectual property can be kept for exclusive use for up to about thirty years, and no longer, without exception.

Of course, if I’m going to believe such radical ideas, what kind of hypocrite would I be if I didn’t practice them? Fables has been my baby for about twenty years now. It’s time to let it go. This is my first test of this process. If it works, and I see no legal reason why it won’t, look for other properties to follow in the future. Since DC, or any other corporate entity, doesn’t actually own the property, they don’t get a say in this decision.

Q: What Exactly Has DC Comics Done to Provoke This?

Too many things to list exhaustively, but here are some highlights: Throughout the years of my business relationship with DC, with Fables and with other intellectual properties, DC has always been in violation of their agreements with me. Usually it’s in smaller matters, like forgetting to seek my opinion on artists for new stories, or for covers, or formats of new collections and such. In those times, when called on it, they automatically said, “Sorry, we overlooked you again. It just fell through the cracks.” They use the “fell through the cracks” line so often, and so reflexively, that I eventually had to bar them from using it ever again. They are often late reporting royalties, and often under-report said royalties, forcing me to go after them to pay the rest of what’s owed.

Lately though their practices have grown beyond these mere annoyances, prompting some sort of showdown. First they tried to strong arm the ownership of Fables from me. When Mark Doyle and Dan Didio first approached me with the idea of bringing Fables back for its 20th anniversary (both gentlemen since fired from DC), during the contract negotiations for the new issues, their legal negotiators tried to make it a condition of the deal that the work be done as work for hire, effectively throwing the property irrevocably into the hands of DC. When that didn’t work their excuse was, “Sorry, we didn’t read your contract going into these negotiations. We thought we owned it.”

More recently, during talks to try to work out our many differences, DC officers admitted that their interpretation of our publishing agreement, and the following media rights agreement, is that they could do whatever they wanted with the property. They could change stories or characters in any way they wanted. They had no obligation whatsoever to protect the integrity and value of the IP, either from themselves, or from third parties (Telltale Games, for instance) who want to radically alter the characters, settings, history and premises of the story (I’ve seen the script they tried to hide from me for a couple of years). Nor did they owe me any money for licensing the Fables rights to third parties, since such a license wasn’t anticipated in our original publishing agreement.

When they capitulated on some of the points in a later conference call, promising on the phone to pay me back monies owed for licensing Fables to Telltale Games, for example, in the execution of the new agreement, they reneged on their word and offered the promised amount instead as a “consulting fee,” which avoided the precedent of admitting this was money owed, and included a non-disclosure agreement that would prevent me from saying anything but nice things about Telltale or the license.

And so on. There’s so much more, but these, as I said, are some of the highlights. At that point, since I disagreed on all of their new interpretations of our longstanding agreements, we were in conflict. They practically dared me to sue them to enforce my rights, knowing it would be a long and debilitating process. Instead I began to consider other ways to go.

Q: Are You Concerned at What DC Will Do Now?

No. I gave them years to do the right thing. I tried to reason with them, but you can’t reason with the unreasonable. They used these years to make soothing promises, tell lies about how dedicated they were towards working this out, and keep dragging things out as long as possible. I gave them an opportunity to renegotiate the contracts from the ground up, putting everything in unambiguous language, and they ignored that offer. I gave them the opportunity, twice, to simply tear up our contracts, and we each go our separate ways, and they ignored those offers. I tried to go over their heads, to deal directly with their new corporate masters, and maybe find someone willing to deal in good faith, and they blocked all attempts to do so. (Try getting any officer of DC Comics to identify who they report to up the company ladder. I dare you.) In any case, without giving them details, I warned them months in advance that this moment was coming. I told them what I was about to do would be “both legal and ethical.” Now it’s happened.

Note that my contracts with DC Comics are still in force. I did nothing to break them, and cannot unilaterally end them. I still can’t publish Fables comics through anyone but them. I still can’t authorize a Fables movie through anyone but them. Nor can I license Fables toys nor lunchboxes, nor anything else. And they still have to pay me for the books they publish. And I’m not giving up on the other money they owe. One way or another, I intend to get my 50% of the money they’ve owed me for years for the Telltale Game and other things.

However, you, the new 100% owner of Fables never signed such agreements. For better or worse, DC and I are still locked together in this unhappy marriage, perhaps for all time.

But you aren’t.

If I understand the law correctly (and be advised that copyright law is a mess; purposely vague and murky, and no two lawyers – not even those specializing in copyright and trademark law – agree on anything), you have the rights to make your Fables movies, and cartoons, and publish your Fables books, and manufacture your Fables toys, and do anything you want with your property, because it’s your property.

Mark Buckingham is free to do his version of Fables (and I dearly hope he does). Steve Leialoha is free to do his version of Fables (which I’d love to see). And so on. You don’t have to get my permission (but you might get my blessing, depending on your plans). You don’t have to get DC’s permission, or the permission of anyone else. You never signed the same agreements I did with DC Comics.

It was my absolute joy and pleasure to bring you Fables stories for the past twenty years. I look forward to seeing what you do with it.

For questions and further information you can contact Bill Willingham at:

[email protected] Please include “Fables Public Domain” in the subject line, so I don’t assume you’re another Netflix promotion.

#Fables #Bill Willingham #Public Domain #Shots Fired #Radical Change #Comics #DC Comics #Bigsby #Holy Shit

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sucksesful-user · 26 days

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Dean Winchester wears that many layers so that he can stay in the closet-

#supernatural #dean winchester #castiel #destiel #jensen ackles #misha collins #shots fired #lgbtqia

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imperial-topaz2003 · 8 months

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Something I need to get off my chest. as a Theron Romancer.

Theron Shan is for everyone.

He does not belong to one single person. No NPC in this game does. Hell, no fictional character in general belongs to a single person in the fandom

I get why someone really loves him as a character. But you do NOT have the right to harass people for also liking him. That enough is bad on its own, but if you're going out of you way to stalk people who romance said character, news flash. You're a terrible fucking person.

IDC if this makes me a target. The point of a fandom isn't so that everyone agrees on one thing. It's so EVERYONE can share their headcanons and express their love for characters.

If you don't like it, you shouldn't be in the fandom in the first place. Once again: Theron Shan is not exclusively yours. He is for everyone.

#shots fired #idc #it's time to stop

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girlactionfigure · 5 months

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JUST IN: Suspect fires shots at two Jewish schools in Montreal, Canada.

Students at Talmud Torah Elementary School and Yeshiva Gedola of Montreal say the incident will not deter them from openly observing their faith.

Police are investigating.

#Montreal Canada #Jewish School #Shots fired

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ecoamerica · 13 days

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Watch the American Climate Leadership Awards 2024 now: https://youtu.be/bWiW4Rp8vF0?feature=shared

The American Climate Leadership Awards 2024 broadcast recording is now available on ecoAmerica's YouTube channel for viewers to be inspired by active climate leaders. Watch to find out which finalist received the $50,000 grand prize! Hosted by Vanessa Hauc and featuring Bill McKibben and Katharine Hayhoe!

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gale-gentlepenguin · 11 months

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Random adult: Why are people your age so obsessed with that video game? (Points to tears of the kingdom)

Me: because in that game we can actually buy our dream home

#totk #shots fired #tears of the kingdom #Loz

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therealloopylupin2099 · 5 months

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DAMN NIGHTWING!

Shots fired XD

Edit: OOPS OTS NOT NIGHT WING ITS JASON! Jshdjfn! They had similar color pallets sometimes my bad!

#nightwing #damien wayne #robin #batman comics #shots fired

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borderlinebelle · 1 year

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The anxiety this is causing me 😬🤭😩

I CANNOT OPEN THEM. 🙂

Send help.

Reblog for ethical scientifical purposes.

Did I mention I’m also likely getting fired tomorrow 🧍🏾‍♀️🙂

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ladybugsimblr · 1 year

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I promise you Lyree loves her Uncle Jayce lol. She didn't mean to crush his doing it on his own (kinda) spirit. Our girl has just never seen a studio apartment in her little life, and she wants the best for her Uncle J.

We love what you did with the place Jayce. He has plans to be out exploring most of the time anyway. This is just the right size for you!

#apartment tour #even if it took less than a minute 😅#lyree loves a good read #she doesn't even know what that it is yet #but she is masterful at it #shots fired #kids say the darndest things #jayce's journey #lyric #bklegacy #jayce #globetrotter tings

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religion-is-a-mental-illness · 7 months

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Narrator voice: "But, it was a phase."

Nobody ever "identifies" as "non-binary" without hearing about "non-binary." (Just like nobody ever finds Jesus without being told about Jesus.)

On the other hand, people have figured out for millennia that they're same-sex attracted (homo- or bisexual) without being told about it. It's even a trope that they thought that they were the only one.

One is real, the other is a social fad, a "social construct," if you will, and functions as a name for an aesthetic. Guess which is which.

#it's a phase #nonbinary #gender ideology #queer theory #gender identity #aesthetic #social fad #social construct #scene kid #shots fired #religion is a mental illness

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