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Paramount pictures tried to sue the US navy over the name USS Enterprise?
Well, this does have to do with licensing and how crazy the studios can get, which all media zine editors have had to deal with. I heard the following story from a fan dealer many years ago. …Continue
Started Jul 30, 2010
is there a legal definition of a fanzine?
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Have there been any court decisions that define what is and isn't a fanzine? I do a media fanzine. There's a copyright Nazi who has stated he will prosecute those who try to "commercially exploit"…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Dan C Apr 5, 2010.
PDF file conversion fun
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I use a very old DTP program, CompuWorks Publisher 3. I use Express PDF Printer to convert the page files to PDFs. What I don't get is that the results are never consistent. For instance, one book…Continue
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Zine Editor Mar 1, 2010.
Licensing issues
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I'm wondering if anyone doing a media zine has ever had to deal with licensing issues. I know that if you want to do a book about, say, a TV show, and don't want to go through the bother of getting…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Zine Editor Feb 1, 2010.
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Paramount pictures tried to sue the US navy over the name USS Enterprise?
Well, this does have to do with licensing and how crazy the studios can get, which all media zine editors have had to deal with. I heard the following story from a fan dealer many years ago. Someone suggested it might have come from a book by Harlan Ellison. There is absolutely nothing about it on the web. Can anyone give me any info as to either its source or its veracity? Here isthe story: This began at a Star Trek convention. A fan was selling patches for the Navy ship the USS…See More
Dan C replied to Zine Editor's discussion is there a legal definition of a fanzine?"I am just popping in to say, as some random dude commenting as something that wasn't the point of your post, that I'd really prefer we didn't use "Nazi" to refer to people who aren't complicit in the deaths of 11…"
is there a legal definition of a fanzine?
Have there been any court decisions that define what is and isn't a fanzine? I do a media fanzine. There's a copyright Nazi who has stated he will prosecute those who try to "commercially exploit" works on a specific TV show. Hw has also stated that he will not prosecute fanzines. If there's no specific legal status, what would all of you mark as the border between a fanzine and a non-fanzine?See More
"Here is the true hair-pulling part: I had to revise the cover yet again. The PDF looked perfect; no extraneous lines. But when I converted it into a jpeg, then the lines showed up.
I'm beginning to think that there are PDF gremlins that mess up…"
Andy (Footprint Workers Co-op) replied to Zine Editor's discussion PDF file conversion fun"Sorry for not getting back earlier, I don't check that often and thought it would e-mail me if anyone replied to this thread.
I don't know if it is too late but I'm pretty sure it will look fine on an offset press. Before it goes to…"
"I'd like to thank the both of you for your responses. When I print out the PDFs on my inkjet, the lines don't show up. My main worry is that they would show up when printed on an offset press. Is this something I should worry about, or is…"
Andy (Footprint Workers Co-op) replied to Zine Editor's discussion PDF file conversion fun"Can you send me the PDF?
If it is big maybe use mailbigfile.com and send it to footprint@footprinters.co.uk
We sometimes (but very rarely) get some lines when viewing on the screen but nothing like as bad as your version (and they go and appear…"
PDF file conversion fun
I use a very old DTP program, CompuWorks Publisher 3. I use Express PDF Printer to convert the page files to PDFs. What I don't get is that the results are never consistent. For instance, one book cover I did has a lot of images added to it. When I view it in its original DTP form, it looks fine. Converted to PDF, you can see all sorts of white lines where the art was added. But the odd thing is that that is not consistent: I can convert the same file again, and the lines are either much…See More
"I woinder if the studios don't go after fanzines not so much because they tolerate them but because they figure they're all small potatoes and wouldn't be worth the cost of prosecuting.
I remember having a conversation with a friend…"
"I'm talking about a book. I always have wondered why some production companies are so stingy about their properties. It occurs to me that fan publications actually enrich them, because they keep their properties in the public eye.
Of course,…"
Licensing issues
I'm wondering if anyone doing a media zine has ever had to deal with licensing issues. I know that if you want to do a book about, say, a TV show, and don't want to go through the bother of getting permission that you can make x% of the book have content other than from that TV show, and it would be OK. Does anyone know the specifics of this?I know that one company, New Media, issued unlicensed books about TV shows etc.all the time and they never seemed to have any problems.See More
"Thanks.Bwfore Diamond decided to get rid of all the small press publishers, it was a simple time: Solicit to Diamond, leaving the publication date several months in the future. Wait for the orders from Diamond. If the orders were large enough to pay…"
Dan 10things replied to Zine Editor's discussion ANY decent bookstore distributors out there?"Most of the ones that did a lot of zines have failed in the past few years. If you're really looking for wide distribution, I'd look at who other widely distributed zines are using. Maximum Rock'n'Roll is using Disticor Magazine…"
ANY decent bookstore distributors out there?
I work on what I guess you could call part books/part fanzines. My latest work was doing the cover of The Alpha Control Reference manual for Alpha Control Press.For years Diamond Distribution was my distributor. But over the years, as they destroyed the competition, their rules became more and more ridiculous. Lately, hey have frozen small press publishers out entirely by instituting a "benchmark" requirement: your book/zine must have sales of $2500 miimum; anything less and they just cancel…See More
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- At 9:11am on January 4, 2013,
Lubomyr Tymkiv said… We invite you to take part in the First International Exhibition "ZINESHOW" in Ukraine. Participation is free. Any technique. Any theme and format. No return. Deadline: 15/04/2013. Exhibition on the blog http://zineshow.blogspot.com All works will be exhibited also in the gallery "tymutopiyapres" http://tymutopiyapres.blogspot.com is not a commercial gallery. Welcomed but not "necessarily" summary of your zine or about you or your creative work (this is necessary for further elucidation of the project and possible documentation). Zines for the exhibition please send air mail: "Zineshow" A/C 9875, Sadivnycha 19/1, 79038, Lviv, Ukraine.
- At 3:55pm on December 14, 2009,
Monstress Zine said… - hee, irwin allen!
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