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Can this be uploaded???...An E.C. Title, but posibly never renewed

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Yoc:
I'm not a trail blazer John.
I just want to keep DCM running smoothly, no fuss, no muss.  Marvel especially has a history of shutting down anything and now with Disney involved I'm certainly hot interested in testing those waters.

Some of the cases you've pointed out were decisions made by Aussie and Serj before I came along.  Trust me, if I were the deciding factor in what is and isn't safe for the site there'd be a few less sections then here.

Your passion for sharing what is legal doesn't mean the site might not be hurt while proving that right.  I don't want to see it harmed making a point.  GAC has left itself open to these matters among others, let them be the test case if one should happen.  And there's nothing stopping anyone here from opening a site and sharing just those books you mentioned.  If they do I wish them only the best.

-Yoc

RJ Bowman:
Bill Black is well versed in what is copyrighted and what is not. Much of his reprint stuff is public domain stuff that has been altered ins some way to make it a newly copyrightable derivative work; i.e. the removal of color half tones and the addition of zip-a-tone style shading, and in the case of one Fawcet reprint that I am aware of, the panels rearranged into entirely new page layouts with the character of Captain Marvel Junior being redrawn as a different Fawcett character that had passed into public domain. If you scan Bill Black's reprints and upload them, you will hear from Bill, but if you scan the public domain originals, he won't have anything to say about it.

Yoc:
I'm betting Bill has used scans from GAC and DCM for material in his books as is his right.  Anyone can do so.
We have no intention of sharing scans of any of his books.

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