<div>Greetings to Everyone!<br><span style="font-style: italic;"><br></span>In<span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>answer to Nils, it was only a matter of time before the Frenchman's Disney Comic Page was taken down. Despite the work he had put into it, he had not paid for the right to use those stories, even in a non-profit fashion.<br><br>I agree that - perhaps - Disney or BOOM or Gladstone or whoever should have looked the other way and considered the page a way to keep the characters alive, especially since there is no comic publishing of The Duckburg Universe right now in America.<br><br>The first principle of Economics is that - despite what some radicals think - <span style="font-weight: bold;">nothing is free.</span> If you created a comic book, and somebody else appropriated it, profited from it without giving you proper payment, you would consider it theft.<br><br>Theft of intellectual property by certain countries, in some cases supported by a government, is one of the largest problems of our age.<br><br>So if Disney or one of the publishing companies complained, it is their right to do so.<br><br>On this topic: is it not time for Disney and the publishers to consider e-book versions of the Barks/Rosa/Van Horn/Jippes/Gottfredson/etc. stories? And to start publishing new stories by worthy authors for e-books? We have talked about this before, when Gladstone went out of business.<br><br>The Wall Street Journal from July 7/8 , 2012 has an article about e-comics:<br><br><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304211804577503192575291320.html?KEYWORDS=comics">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304211804577503192575291320.html?KEYWORDS=comics</a><br><br>Best Wishes to all!<br><br>L. S.<br> <br><span style="font-style: italic;"></span>
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