Do work for hire for a company as an employer
Largely derivative work of IPs that the employer owns
Signs a really dumb contract that states that the only way this work will revert to you is if it's stops being printed
Work never stops being printed because it's popular
Stay pissy about it for 40 years.
Lmao, Alan Moore is a retard
Instead of making fun of him you can instead of sympathy for just how souless and exploiting the industry is like a normal person who isn't an attention seeking faggot
He's british
If Alan Moore was less of an unlikable faggot this might be true.
He's an unlikable douche and he literally helped write the contract.
Sympathy only goes so far. He wasn't hoodwinked. He agreed to this.
DC offered Alan Moore the rights back in exchange for promoting Before Watchmen.
Guess what Moore didn't do?
He’s pretty likable, especially how he make you seethe
Typical American bootlicking.
Agree to do a job
Job is done
NOOOOOOOOO! IT'S NOT FAIR!!!
He took a deal he decided he didn’t like how it was handled, and simply left the job. That’s all. He’s not trying to lawyer up against DC or rework what the terms were, he simply washed his hands of it like a bad relationship
they offered the rights back if he supported them raping the material first
Shut the fuck up you little bitch.
Normal people work for jobs that will replace them less than a week after they die and will be forgotten by the world even faster
somehow in the mind of the retarded OP, this is Alan copping or something
draw some superheroes (or raping fishmen)
write some trite schlock about superheroes (or raping fishmen)
don't get to keep the rights
Worse things happen daily.
Even if I do, you’ll still be seething about Moore.
Funny thing is, no one even remembers that that shit exists, let alone consider it canon (whochnit absolutely isn't).
Kept his dignity?
Moore was too old to care by then. He had plans when he was young, he moved on. He doesn’t want it anymore.
They would absolutely remember and consider it canon if Moore gave his "blessing"
Same thing with the tv show, they don't understand
The type of contract he signed was the standard for the time. Every other creator who signed such a deal with DC got their rights within 5-10 years or so. Watchmen becoming as popular as it did was completely unprecedented. Moore didn't expect it, and neither did DC. And when this unprecedented occurred, DC actively made the choice to enforce the letter of their agreement, rather than its spirit.
Obviously, they had every reason to do so, but it still sucks that the creator of [THING] doesn't get [THING THEY EXPECTED/DESERVED] because their work was literally so impossibly high quality that it changed the motherfucking game.
Signs a really dumb contract that states that the only way this work will revert to you is if it's stops being printed
It was a standard contract for the time and there hasn't been a single comic that has been in perpetual printing every year for decades like DC has done. Watchmen is popular but it's not *that* popular, it's obvious DC is doing it entirely for rights retention. Worst part is Moore and Gibbons were willing to try and negotiate for the rights back by giving them a sequel but DC flat out refused which is when Moore washed his hands of them.
Thank God, this prevented another possible Ken Penders scenario
He needs a shower
DC offered Alan Moore the rights back in exchange for promoting Before Watchmen.
That was more than a decade after he wanted anything to do with it lol
Agree to do job based on promises
other party never intends to fulfill promise
No need to deep throat that boot anon
The contract also states that DC will pay Moore royalties for all merchandise. Guess what DC didn't do back in 1986?
I will never understand Anon Babble's contrarian desire to defend DC violating its own contract.
It was a standard contract for the time
No, it wasn't. That contract, he fucking help write, was a first
Source?
Worst part is Moore and Gibbons were willing to try and negotiate for the rights back by giving them a sequel but DC flat out refused which is when Moore washed his hands of them.
uh, the version of this story that I heard is that DC went after him offering him the rights back if he accepted to make a Watchmen sequel but he told them to fuck off
Ryan Coogler was smart enough to put a hard deadline as to when Sinners reverts back to him.
It's Alan Moore fault for being so stupid
Alan Moore is a shitty, terrible writer and only retards who've only read capeshit think he's good compared to the horrible writing of all other capeshit.
That's incorrect, Moore and Gibbons when flat out told "we're never going to stop printing" tried to renegotiate which is where the whole Minutemen prequel idea came from, it's only years after that first flat out refusal did DC go back to the table and offer them the same deal but at that point they didn't want anything to do with Watchmen. A DC exec that came in charge after the whole fiasco was wondering why they didn't have any more books from the guys that gave them their most successful one of all time and commented on how retarded this whole thing was, the whole thing is basically a retelling of the Golden Goose parable.
Also fun fact DC also fucked over Moore with V for Vendetta since the contract for that had similar verbiage and despite being substantially less popular it has never gone out of print either for obvious reasons.
Alan Moore is a retard
No shit
cool buttons
work can revert to you
work for hire
man you have never even signed a contract have you, fukken neetcel
he’s likable because he’s unlikable
Classic troon logic. AKA, anti-logic
Give me sympathy
When something happens to you that makes you deserve it, maybe you'll get some.
the bottom two rocks are people employed givign their time/their ideas/their work/their sanity, so that's the same as hirsch is actually saying.
if you're going to be a bootlicker, pick a better boot to lick than disneys for fucks sake.
Some anons are fine with DC violating their contracts so long as it's against people they don't like and from what I've seen some anons don't like Moore