Blog Heap o'Art of Links 19 October 2012
Links regarding art of all types
and related themes like cartoons and comics,
copyright, media, illusion, and pop culture.
Art of
Michael Ausiello on TV Line Fri 2012-Oct-19 11:30am
Kevin Dunn joining HBO comedy Veep 2nd season in the recurring role of Ben, the president's new chief of staff.
Vicki Hyman, The Star-Ledger Fri 2012-Oct-19 10:59am
Sylvia Kristel, the Dutch actress who starred in the 1974 porn landmark "Emmanuelle," about a couple’s erotic adventures in Thailand, has died of cancer at age 60. [Oh, so that's what it was about. I wondered, but not enough to find out. iMDB: Sylvia Kristel, RIP.]
Copy Rights
Michael Cavna, Washington Post Fri 2012-Oct-19 3:10pm
IN THE 1930s, publishing bosses Jack Liebowitz and Harry Donenfeld paid a couple of young men $130 for the rights to Superman. … A federal judge in California has ruled that Shuster’s heirs cannot reclaim copyrights to Superman. U.S. District Court Judge Otis D. Wright decided that those rights were surrendered 20 years ago when Shuster’s siblings reached an annual payment agreement with DC Comics and gave up interest in the Son of Krypton….
Ben Fritz, LA Times Fri 2012-Oct-19 3:06pm
DC Comics' superheroes can finally team up on the big screen following yesterday's legal victory for Warner Bros. in its long-running fight over the rights to Superman. … Had Warner lost its case against the heirs of Superman co-creator Joe Shuster, it would not have been able to make "Justice League" or any other movies, television shows or comics featuring key elements of the Man of Steel's mythos after 2013 unless it reached a new agreement with the estates of Shuster and co-creator Jerry Siegel.… [Well! Thank goodness they can proceed without regard to the heirs of the character's creators!! :P]
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