Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Know Your Rights!

actually, Complete Control would be a better Clash reference for this story...

caution: when you see this label, run:



so chances are you may of heard of the new tokyopop contract-y thing[pdf] going around. apparently it seems to be written in "friendly" non-legalese ("hey stupid, you should be able to understand this!"). it's actually written in sleazy con-artist-ese.

anyway brian lee o'malley has posted a reponse on his blog. it's definitely worth a read. he breaks it down, and nails all the important bits. go read it.

in closing, fuck tokyopop.

5 comments:

Gabe said...

Holy crap that's awful.

If the terms of the contract weren't bad enough, the "normal guy" speak makes it all sound so much sketchier.

Oh and the French part was icing on the cake.

Jon Sperry said...
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Ben DeRosa said...

at this point you could start a company called ArtistRape with the slogan: "Not as bad as Tokyopop" and people would be willing to hear you out.

ArtistRape™ - Don't the let the name fool you, we only rape your dad.

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Alexander said...

Wow.