That's right. The reason I point it out is because many on my flist are more used to the world of fiction when it comes to copyright, and don't realize that television and other media are very very different, and incredibly unfair to the original creators, in many ways. Here and there I've gotten the impression that people are a little miffed at D&K for letting this happen, and may not realize that D&K have no say in it -- and in fact, unless their work agreement says otherwise, may be barred from ever drawing, creating, or even talking about their input and intentions as related to the copyrighted work.
Tangential to that, I also find it rather intriguing that when D&K did release comic-from-series books, they didn't do it through Nickelodeon's own publishing house (Simon) but through Tokyopop -- and that the book about to come out, of "art from the series" (that does have D&K listed as authors) is being released by Dark Horse. Again, not Nickelodeon's publishing house, and I suspect in part because that way Nickelodeon doesn't have to promote the book. Can, possibly, even ignore it completely -- because the official Avatar site is housed on Nickelodeon's servers, thus control of any merchandising is in the hands of Nickelodeon.
Seems to me that maybe another way to make it clear who gets the support is to push Avatar: The Last Airbender (The Art of the Animated Series) as much as possible, since at least then there's a better chance of some money for it going to D&K, as authors of the book itself.
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Date: 31 Mar 2010 05:57 pm (UTC)Tangential to that, I also find it rather intriguing that when D&K did release comic-from-series books, they didn't do it through Nickelodeon's own publishing house (Simon) but through Tokyopop -- and that the book about to come out, of "art from the series" (that does have D&K listed as authors) is being released by Dark Horse. Again, not Nickelodeon's publishing house, and I suspect in part because that way Nickelodeon doesn't have to promote the book. Can, possibly, even ignore it completely -- because the official Avatar site is housed on Nickelodeon's servers, thus control of any merchandising is in the hands of Nickelodeon.
Seems to me that maybe another way to make it clear who gets the support is to push Avatar: The Last Airbender (The Art of the Animated Series) as much as possible, since at least then there's a better chance of some money for it going to D&K, as authors of the book itself.