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Very well put.

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Excellent article....thank you so much for covering this, it will be a great resource for all creators and something I will link to and share with our readers!

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Thank you, I know so many creators who have been burned by lawyers that were the wrong lawyers for the job.

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This is critical and valuable advice. I have bailed out a few comics creators from bad deals they got into because they used counsel inexperienced in comics industry norms. A deep knowledge of both the industry and relevant case and statutory law is essential and creators need to vet their choice of counsel to make sure the attorney has that knowledge. A last point on the "in print" clause - given digital printing, very little work truly goes "out of print" any more.

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Thanks so much for chiming in Marc. I really appreciate it! I have gotten a half dozen private messages from creators today who have made the terrible mistake of working with unqualified attorneys.

And yeah, digital is forever.

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In Unix, "print" just means "display as characters on screen [on this workspace on that monitor]".

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