Quick question

[thandrak.insanejournal.com]

In dealing with Golden Age stuff, where the stories are short and the page count is high, how many pages of a comic can we post? Let's say the story is 8 pages long, and the comic is, say, 60 or so?

Hell, or Seuss? You decide.

Comments

[jarodrussell.insanejournal.com]

This is Hell: http://www.fema.gov/kids/wytookie1.htm

[aaron_bourque.insanejournal.com]

Well, it's definitely not Seuss.

Aaron "The Mad Whitaker" Bourque; argh, now I wanna post some Seuss.

[thandrak.insanejournal.com]

Seriously, I have enough stuff to do a good series, but I don't know how close to 'legality' for purposes of the journal it is. On the other hand, I'm pretty sure it's... probably public domain by now.

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

Shades of "Now we are Sick", the "anthology of nasty verse" that the likes of Pratchett and Gaiman contributed to.

Or that Hellraiser story I posted last Halloween with the faux nursery rhyme that summoned the Cenobites...

[tavella.insanejournal.com]

Could we maybe have a looser set of rules for, say, stuff that is 50 or more years old? Because a good bit of it is PD anyway, and even the stuff where they got around to renewing the copyright is pretty much inaccessible to the ordinary reader.

[ashtoreth.insanejournal.com]

Just a personal feeling, I think it's best to keep some brevity in the scans. Or cut it up into multiple posts.

[lbd_nytetrayn.insanejournal.com]

How about stuff from other companies that are out of business? I'm referring specifically to Valiant's comics from the 90's, the Nintendo stuff specifically.

Y'know, should I get the time to post more.

--LBD "Nytetrayn"

[raattgift.insanejournal.com]

My take on this question has practically nothing to do with copyright law at all, for once.

I want free comics as much as the next person (possibly more, given some of the trolls that have shown up here), but scans_daily is not the place to get them, and never has been. If you really like a comic, you can probably find it elsewhere with a little bit of search-fu, no matter what your take on copyright happens to be.

What's interesting in s_d is the discussions in which the images are embedded. Yes, sure, some individual images or series of images might be more interesting to some than the conversations they're in, but even in its wildest days, old!s_d on the whole was not fullscans_daily, which was one place you could go to get a whole issue or book in scanned form. s_d is where you went for the innuendo, the snark, the love and the hate, with the images for ease of reference when making a point rather than as a substitute for a whole issue you're interested in reading.

Think of the page limit in the way you would think of an assignment to write a pr&esharp;cis, abstract, short story or article with a strictly limited word count, and make something interesting or squeeable that is at -- or under! -- the scans-per-issue limit.

If you are in favour of Jolly Roger raising with shouts of Yarrrrr -- or if you are the opposite -- you might consider subtle ways of helping people find full(er) versions, whether that means scanned or printed and bound by the publisher itself. People have certainly pointed out availability of TPBs on Amazon or Ebay in the past; most of us already know about TPB vs the LCS, and have discussed Tales of The Latter elsewhere. :-)

[(Anonymous)]

So does everyone else know what this is from? I'm not seeing any tags.