Sad: We're Thrilled That A Content Creator Isn't Suing Over A Derivative Work
from the a-sign-of-the-times dept
A friend of mine sent me to Garfield minus Garfield a few months back. It's a slightly bizarre and surreal showing of Garfield comic strips where the lead character, Garfield the cat, is removed from the cartoon, leaving only his owner Jon Arbuckle. The result is that it totally changes the meaning of some of the strips, leading to a sort of... existential despair. The NY Times wrote a story about it this week, which I read -- but perhaps the most interesting point is noted by Mathew Ingram: Jim Davis, the creator of Garfield isn't bothered by it. In fact, he seems to enjoy it, having thanked the creator of the site, and noted that it made him go back and look at the entire body of Garfield comics in a very different light. What's somewhat sad about this is the fact that a content creator not reacting angrily or threatening to sue (or just filing suit) over a derivative work is considered so rare to merit mentioning. Clearly, we still have a long way to go.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Filed Under: copyright, derivative works, garfield, garfield without garfield, jim davis
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*Sigh*
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http://lolcatz.net/144/invisible-lolcat/
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As for the strip, that's weird but there's another one I liked more. I don't have a link but rather than removing Garfield entirely, it just removed Garfield's speech bubbles. Somehow, a man going nuts in front of his cat rather than alone seemed even more poignant...!
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bizarre
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Jim Davis is a sellout...
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Wow
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Love Them
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Re: I was thinking the same thing
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Interesting
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Dibs on the movie rights
It's that loveable zany cat like
you've never seen him before,
or at all, at least in this movie...
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it's awesome
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