How big companies keep creators poor 

How is it even legal

​​​​​@@maxs-lz4pn You are right ! I live in Canada and from what I learned, here it is not legal ; formally, only what is written on the front must be considered. Also, to tie a forced contract to a salary check is obviously a vice of form.

Bruh, I started malding when I heard dat sh!t

​@@Cinetiste in canada freedom is an illusion.

That's Marvel in a nutshell.

Can't pay Bill's with credit

​​@@Kn1ghtborne exactly

@@Kn1ghtbornethey need to give you 10% that they made from bat man to his family

I had a big smile on my face when I saw his name in the opening credits for Batman V Superman.

Fuck that. Where’s the moment

They can't help it-GREED.

@@powerbadpowerbad the folly of capitalism and class division

@@cheetahluv210 AGREED.

No, we would ahve plenty of characters if, INSTEAD of making these broad monetizations of crapastic "elseworlds" reboot stories, audiences would SIMPLY not be lemmings and watch new IP as happily as old one. But you idiots jsut ahve to be fans of "official" Superman and keep bringing that money to "official" coffers of giant corporations. Because USA is like that, a soviet style marketing juggernaut, not a place of free thinkers. You have to be stupid or insane to just default to this "it's the company screwing over creators" error code, every single time, when you've JUST been demonstrated how it's a ridiculous string of PATCHWORK bylaws added onto each other. To make "copyright" even REMOTELY even work, because you "created" an idea and claim to own it. When all the value is in the lemmings following it BLINDLY. You legislated COPYING, bread and butter of EDUCATION, to be by default NOT a right. It goes much deeper than that, now you have universities failing to TEACH people because technologosies and information isn't in their RIGHT to copy and pass along. Simply shameless.

​​@@powerbadpowerbad "Money is the root of all evil" - Saint Paul disciple of Jesus

Would that have inspired perchance to dream

@@cheetahluv210 I dunno, but the story described is clearly inspired by Detective 500's lead story, "To Kill a Legend," thought by many to be the greatest Batman story of all-time, right down to the role of the Phantom Stranger.

@@cheetahluv210 Perchance to dream was an animated Batman episode in 1992 and Batman's 75th anniversary was in 2014...

In Sean Murphys Beyond the White Knight series he purposefully made Finger's headstone tower over Bob Kane's

@@JayJ4y95 okay so it might be the other way around then

Same for Steve Ditko. The dude literally made everything about Spider-Man that is Spider-Man, and everyone always just talks about Stan that just had a name suggestion for Steve. It’s disgusting.

@@christianbjorck816 stan lee took WAY TOO much credit at marvel, yeah sure he maybe the one doing the dialog, but holy shit that man does not deserve all the praise he gets.

@@yourfatboy5359 Damn right. Funniest story I have heard is when he tried to take credit for Captain America, when Jack Kirby and Joe Simon created it and Stan was like 12 years old and didn’t even work in the comics industry 🤣

@@christianbjorck816 exactly! He just loves taking credit. he did not co-create anything jack kirby made, the king himself created all of his creations by himself, dc's new gods proves this, did stan lee also co-create that? Hell no. It's sad seeing how stan lee is praised by everyone but jack, steve, and many other writers and artists are only praised by die hard comic fans.

@@yourfatboy5359 Exactly. I really loathe all these normies praising Stan Lee to high heaven.

I have no words to say other then acknowledging this as the truth

Every time I'm reminded of the harsh reality, I tell myself that "if you help someone, you help the world". When life gets me down, I remind myself that there are people who love me, and that I should continue to live. For myself, and those around me.

Agreed. This world is sick. We need to Stop procreating and produce so many baby and let em live in this sick world and let em become one of this sick people toooo! Enough is enough !

Yup. It is what it is. 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨

​@@wolfshield2499start with you and your seed:)

Yeah, but let's not forget that McFarlane then pulled the same shit on Neil Gaiman for the stuff Neil created for Spawn.

And then Jim Lee selling Wildstorm to Dc and thus screwing Alan Moore's content over.

This. All of this.

Dont forget about a number of boxers,recording artists,& some inventers.thats why you need to patient,copyright,& know how to legally claim tge rights to your works.

McFarlane also got into trouble because his drawings were more explicit and better than some of the stuff currently being written.

It's great propaganda

Not just the comics industry. This problem is a issue in almost every industry. Entertainment being the biggest imo. This is why I refuse to pitch my ideas to companies.

@@Vampiric_Kai You are very smart. Companies love to reject ideas and tell people they suck, but when they do accept ideas, they do their best to steal them from the creators.

​@@matthewk4912 Exactly, they reject your idea then steal it and make money off your idea.

@@Vampiric_Kai Agreed and very well said. This is why, if people can, they're much better off going into business for themselves and becoming entrepreneurs. Its one of the main reasons why I intend to go into business for myself as an entrepreneur, make my own comics( and hopefully, my own toys) and be my own boss and own my own creations. Why bust your ass working for someone else when they don't care about you, respect you and appreciate you and why be working on and putting all of your blood, sweat and tears into something that you won't have any ownership over? The cautionary tales of not only creators in the comic book industry but in almost every other industry really informed me for how I wanted to make a career for myself in comics and in business.

They just spawn

I get Nerdsync vibes! But, just without Scott.

@@KadenKenz Agreed, unfortunately I feel like Nerdsync's content has moved away a bit from the stuff I found interesting, so this is a nice return to that

@@kikkerdrilThese channels' videos being recommended is a result of RU-vid's algorithm.

@@BartasRapowanie fr

If a company robbed me I'd be justified in stealing something from their office before leaving.

Yeah, I fucking hate it too. I understand you completely. I want certain show which was very special to me to have, at least, its last and third season, but certain company cancelled the show making this show to end in the second season. Thinking deeply about the reasons of its cancellation made me so sad that it was actually the cause of my first depression stage in my entire life... and that stage wasn't gonna be the last one, but hey. It's really sad.

Yeah, RIP Inside Job and many more.

Danny Phantom lol

Utopia 😢

@@saladtalad1311 They even made a remake instead of continuing the original.. this is so crazy.

There was a documentary a few years ago that was all about Bill Finger. I forget the name "Man behind the Bat" I think.

The doc was called "Batman & Bill"

right?!

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Joe Shuster

Akira Toriyama just passed away.

sure but they did not crate anyhing interesting after leaving marvel, the machine for advertising does a lot of heavy lifting for the artists but yes they should out of respect be rewarded eerytime a successfull project with their creation makes a ton of money, as an actor in such movie i would drive myself to the house of the creator and hand him the cash out of my own pocket

It makes me so mad. I wish the creators had gone to the homes of those who cheated then and fired shots at their house. And kept on harassing and intimidated them. This type of crap is not on. I'm so sick of hard working men creating amazing things and getting screwed over.

Dude this is America we don't play fair

@@dontayewhittaker5687 Karma will get them. It is already starting, the creativity in comics is dying. Reboot after reboot🤮.

@@dontayewhittaker5687oh my god not everything is an American issue Jesus Christ

Yes like I've seen with a surten emulator get shut down because of what you said

"wAlT dIzN3Y dId nUdInG rOnG" Yuck...

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@@RichardmpayiTnway if it was🧢 You wouldn't know. Go play somewhere.

A lot of artists are confused about how the world works.

I feel Batman is like that... And Superman too

I thought this because superman isn’t really interesting. I think his weaknesses weren’t always around and he couldn’t always fly but people added stories and abilities that made him better. He feels like a child’s favourite toy granted power beyond belief. I think the original Batman is also similar but he was more interesting at the start due to being a detective.

Biggest case of this, I think, is with Rob Liefeld and Deadpool.

Yeah, it is not an easy solution. One way to go is to make a author profit from a media that directly reference them. Take Daredevil and the announced new "born again" series. Frank Miller should get receive a dip from it. But this is very easily solved by the company, putting a original name and saying which comics inspired the project, making a difficult case for the author. (Much like James Gunn naming "superman legacy" and that he got inspired by Morrison "all-star"

They should have pursued labor then. At least then they could have sued yo get their pay.

Exactly! It really pisses me off.

We observed a bit of that when Sony and Marvel were having disagreements. Nobody cared that Sony had the rights, nor wanted to even research what the discourse was about. A majority of people online simply vilified Sony because "they are keeping Spider-Man from the MCU and we want Spider-Man in the MCU."

@@malcolmparker8376 now it's better that Spidey isn't in the MCU

@@malcolmparker8376 Spider-Man is better with sony ,even sony give steve ditko a tribute in Nwh

@@starsdealer3473Marvel Studios is the production studio behind the MCU Spider-Man movies. Sony just distributes them.

Even RU-vid recommend me his speeches which I avoid, he didn't create any character but took credit for the writers work

Thank you!! Stan Lee’s supposed legacy is a fraud. Ignorance is bliss and many Stan Lee fanboys out there that only became fans because of the MCU are the ones mostly that support that Stan Lee and his legacy.

The same definitely can and should be said about Bob Kane. Not only did this SCUMBAG take claim for singlehandedly "create" Batman, BUT he also claimed to have "created" the Riddler who he had no involvement in the creation of that character. The Riddler was again created by Bill Finger with an assist, buy NOT Kane, but Dick Sprang. Both Kane and Stan Lee both deserve each other since Stan Lee took credit for both Ditko and Kirby's work. No wonder these two (Kane and Lee) were such good friends.

They did, it always ends up like this. Greed and ego

To be fair TMNT is a success story of that. One of the founders sold his share before the big cash out to Viacom but either way both of the founders did very well, aside from the emotional rollercoaster it was between them.

You haven't heard of Image Comics?

Copyright everything. Get your ideas in writing and protected. A producer at Fox tried to swindle me back in the early 90's. I learned about Copyright before I met this producer. Dangling the promise of introducing me to extreme studios. Found out I was awaiting patent certification. The producer broke contact.

The Superman Creators story first broke in the 1970s in Phil Yeh's alternative newspaper Uncle Jam. Only then did Neal Adams and friends jump on it and get more wheels in motion.

agreed

also happens with what are considered serialized paperbacks the creator of the vampire diaries has never seen any royalties from the tv series, and while she would have loved to sue the twilight author (who stole everything from vampire diaries, except for the sparkly thing) she cant....because she doesnt own the rights

And this is why pirate culture needs to skyrocket now… oh wait it already is lol

Modern pop music not only sounds a lot like the pop music 25 years ago. It sounds worse. Like they put it threw a meat grinder and just puked it out. No originality. Just recycled trash.

Humans are not original, they always copy from other peoples work and add onto them. We live in a more interconnected world and that is why more songs nowadays sound similar.