[puhekupla] FW: SAUVONS KOCHALKA !
From: Jarno Elovirta (jarno@elovirta.com)
Date: 28.08.2001 - 15:02:02
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>From: Alban <stereoscomic@club-internet.fr>
>Subject: SAUVONS KOCHALKA !
>Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 01:22:18 +0200
>
>This is from James Kochalka:
>
> James Kochalka Superstar <james.kochalka@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 20:29:45 -0700
> Subject: HELP!
> From: "James Kochalka Superstar"
> To: David Lasky , Dean Haspiel ,
> Jeff Mason , Chris Staros ,
> Tom Devlin
>
> Could you forward this to all our pals?
>
> Five minutes ago, my strip was just dumped by my local newspaper.
>
> For the past several years my Magic Boy strip has been running as a
>weekly
> in my local Vermont daily Gannett owned paper, The Burlington Free
>Press.
> It has also run as a monthly in VICE magazine. The strips are taken
>from my
> diary, the first volume of which was published this spring from Top
>Shelf
> under the title The Sketchbook Diaries. The book was recently
>nominated for
> an Ignatz award for "Best Comic".
>
> I think my diary strips are the best work that I've ever done, but
> regardless of their quality a horrible wrong was just done to me.
>The
> REASON I was fired, is because I refused to sign a WORK FOR HIRE
>CONTRACT.
>
> They said they needed me to sign the contract to get around "a
>loophole in
> copyright law" that would keep them from exploiting my work on the
>web. I
> said "but a work for hire contract means that the Free Press would
>be the
> legal author and artist of my strip." They responded "No, it
>doesn't."
>
> Uh... YES it does! If I signed the contract they could make a full
>length
> Magic Boy feature film and give me nothing!
>
> The Free Press said that all their freelancers have to sign it.
>"But you
> don't ask all the other cartoonists in your paper to sign them. The
>guy who
> draws Buckles doesn't have to sign a work for hire contract with
>the Free
> Press," I countered. They responded "But those strips are
>syndicated."
> "But my strip is SELF-syndicated" I tried to explain. They said
>there was
> no such thing as a self-syndicated strip.
>
> So, I refused to sign the ridiculously unfair work for hire
>contract, and
> they dumped my strip. I don't make much money, so this is actually
>a pretty
> significant financial blow to me.
>
> So, I'm asking for your kind assistance. Please, if you admire my
>work,
> email the Free Press and tell them how much you like the Magic Boy
>strips.
> Or, if you don't care for my work but find the concept of the work
>for hire
> agreement repugnant, please email them and let them know.
>
> Their email address is: letters@bfp.burlingtonfreepress.com
>
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