No More Cosplay and Fan Works

Don't . You . Dare . Touch . My . Cosplay . ! . ! . !

/growl
Mike Grouchy

Thanks for sharing. Yeah, that's pretty screwed up, even for people outside of Cosplay am sure it would make restrictions as well. Now if the times for people to urge their Reps and even more to not be in favor of the TPP.

a reply to: mikegrouchy

Seconded ..... nerds will rise, and it will be bloody ...

If that's the case, phasers will be fully functional at the next Star Trek convention. Trekkies will not give up the RPing quietly, and redshirts in suits will face the brunt of that.

It will be hard to revoke artistic licenses, cosplay is art in motion

I don't see this being enforced by anyone. "Cosplay" arguably increases sales, and dressing up as Mario is the same as drawing a picture of Mario. They're not going to be rounding up kids who draw pictures of Mario.

Personally, I think this is being blown way out proportion. This is probably to prevent knock-off costume products and toys being made en-mass in places like China.

Freedom of expression and eventually all art will be considered treason against the collective unless you have the proper clearances.

originally posted by: MystikMushroom
I don't see this being enforced by anyone. "Cosplay" arguably increases sales, and dressing up as Mario is the same as drawing a picture of Mario.

I have been on the internet since 1984 and the days of Arpanet, CompuServe, Prodigy, et al, and every step of the way the so-called rulers of this planet have crushed creativity, well structured knowledge, and collation of information. Napster existed in 1999, long before I-tunes. Crushed by lawsuits. YouTube was doing fine before Google bought them, but it was sold anyway. Fear of copyright infringement lawsuits. Again and again. The popular thing is crushed by lawyers and resurrected by the Elite.

The elite who rule the Earth couldn't reason their way out of a wet paper bag. They only know fear, intimidation, and more-money-than-you.

originally posted by: MystikMushroom
They're not going to be rounding up kids who draw pictures of Mario.

Personally, I think this is being blown way out proportion. This is probably to prevent knock-off costume products and toys being made en-mass in places like China.

I'm supposed to trust all those weasel words in the quote above?

not going
blown
probably

Massive piles of Bull excrement. They would just _love_ to get a piece of the Cosplay action through some small licensing fee the Conventions have to pay. Or some other minor little pin prick they think no one will notice.

NO!
Can you hear me now?

/growl
Mike Grouchy

a reply to: mikegrouchy


well said. Creativity is one of the fundamental forces that always challenges the control paradigm, therefore it will eventually be rooted out. It already has to a large extent just look at the limited representation of the same tired recycled pantheon in the arts today.....same bands, same actors......same same same......

They are going to despise free publicity in the name of intellectual property?

I'm a composer so I guess I would be flattered to be covered so I'm pretty sure creators are flattered to have people cosplay their creations.

Art lives on freedom, not profits.

a reply to: theMediator

Check out that word. It begins with an "f" and ends with an "m." It is an enemy of the state.