More random reactions to what I've seen online:
I didn't get a cease and desist. WB shut down two auctions, and to prevent any further troubles I killed the rest myself. I also refunded all the auctions featuring DC characters that were already completed. So as of right now, no profit at all has been made or will be made from items featuring Time Warner's intellectual property.
All of the original art that could not be sold is in the hands of the original artist. I do not have it. The exception is one piece, the one by Mike Netzer, who has asked me to hold onto it in the hopes this can all be straightened out. I have no profited by gaining art or money.
DC Comics does not hate kids. They probably don't even know this happened. My order came from the WB, and was likely wholly random and came up in regular searches they do of ebay. I'm sure once I get some replies from the WB this will all be straightened out.
Yes, I know it was stupid of me to use their property. Thanks to every one who has pointed that out. I was operating under the assumption that this would fall under the same umbrella of artists doing sketches at conventions or guys like John Byrne who make thousands for personal profit making drawings of DC characters.
My name's not Alex, it's Thomas. Hello. Alex was the guy who submitted this to Boing Boing. I don't know him. But if you see this, hey Alex!
The painting of the S shield and the comment about hoping WB gets mad about it was joke that came after the fact. It's not why WB came after me. I was just talking to the artist while making posts about all this and put that up to promote her work and because we were having a laugh about the absurdity of all this. I'll mention her name and site again because she likes being famous. Hello, Ali.
Yes I am trying to laugh at this. No, it's not easy. Mostly it's stressing me the hell out and making me sad.
Let's see... what else. Oh, yeah, i am having some money troubles because of this. I'm not putting up a public donations thing because, well, I don't want it to seem I'm making money off this. Some friends helped, and they are most brilliant and wonderful people in the world. Thank you, guys.
A bit of good: the first round of auctions netted $1400 for the Candlelighters. That's pretty awesome.
Lastly, I wish the original auctions had gotten this much attention.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
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Thomas,
All legal silliness aside...your original intent here was to help Candlelighters, and in turn, the sick children they help on a daily basis.
Just like Superman.
Maybe the artists involved could just send our artwork directly to Candlelighters, and they could pass it on to some special kids? Or hang it up around the place, in the visiting rooms or play rooms or Nurse's stations or hospital rooms, wherever they need to brighten up a wall or two. I know you have been in contact with Candlelighters and maybe you could run that idea by them.
Because, all this talk about how much lawyers suck (no matter how true ;) ) gets us further and further from the point - all any of us wanted to do was help out some sick kids.
What do you think?
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