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Seriously, Frank seems to think things are not as rosy financially behind the scenes as CGL/IMR would have the world think. While IMR's undoubtedly a clusterfuck, it's also more opaque than ever now that most of the staff and writers who've got problems with LLC and/or the generally borked manageme...

I'm-a guess Loren really didn't want to go to court. Copy of the unsigned order. I'm-a guess Wildfire really didn't want to pay damages or fees. Big Daddy Stansel was fully paid off and the the petition would have been kicked out if they went through with the hearing. Settling saves LLC a lot of pu...

It's all very arguable, because the contract itself was in question. If the contract had been upheld, then yes, it's entirely correct that it is a work for hire and the author owns no copyright on it. But the work for hire clause is stated in the contract, and if the contract itself is in violation...

No: http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ09.pdf[/url]] ...if the parties expressly agree in a written instrument signed by them that the work shall be considered a work made for hire. The default still is not work for hire. -Crissa Did you read the whole thing? "[A] work specially ordered or com...

The Copyright Office seems to agree with RNB, unless the writers' contracts specifically give them copyright until they're paid: http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ09.pdf In context, his statement was pretty much "In retrospect, we didn't have to pull books from distribution. Wasn't it sweet th...

Frank, you're trying to put lipstick on a pig at this point. After weeks of discussion, The Topps Company and Catalyst Game Labs are both pleased to announce that a license extension to the popular intellectual properties of BattleTech and Shadowrun is under final review. All terms have been agreed ...

I wonder how much Topps cares about Battletech/Shadowrun. Not that they'd have any reason to hate the properties, just Topps never went out of its way to acquire them, they came part and parcel with their acquisition of Wizkids. I wonder how much profit they could expect from either line, it seems ...

Actually it still might not make the court proceeding go away. For it to go away IMR still has to pay outstanding debts. They can promise all day long that they have a future revenue source, but they have a documented history of fucking up. Dead wrong. IMR needs to demonstrate that it has the capac...

A Topps rep is quoted in the IMR release. It's a done deal. It's been pre-announced to make the legal proceeding go away as quickly as possible now that they have a deal in principle. Even a retard can see this

Petitioning with Stansel's dad. Signed to Stansel's production stable. "Manipulated" is giving them the benefit of the doubt. There's also a damn decent possibility that they're being used as a corporate meat shield. Wildfire goes for broke and, if they lose, sells the CTech IP to Sandstor...

Crissa, why do you fucking think I said they should wait? Perhaps because THIS could happen? Now IMR can go to the bankruptcy judge with license in hand, scream "we have a viable revenue stream," and Wildfire is stuck defending a really weak petition that'll probably be dismissed. Bankrupt...

The only good reason to announce this now, this way is to try to get the petition kicked out. It shows a viable revenue stream. Going through with the hearing on Friday sounds like a surefire way for Wildfire to fuck itself right in the ass. Involuntary motions that get kicked out usually lead to bi...

Crissa, as much as you want to defend Frank from all comers, he's a big boy and can take care of himself. He got this one wrong. AJ's comment was relevant. He's credible, and he directly contradicted a statement that Frank presented as truth. Frank previously claimed that the books that had May stre...

@Frank: Sales tax is collected at the state and local level. IRS has nothing to do with it.

There were massive operational problems well before the shit really hit the fan. People were going unpaid long before the massive draws shown on PD's leaked graphs. AFAIK, this is also false. I can't speak to IMR's books before Catalyst was formed, but the graphs show that Loren started making big ...

Sometimes even stupid people are right. There's more to stealing than just taking things. You've also got to know it isn't yours. And you've got to intent to keep it. LLC seems to have stolen the money. But it's possible that he's so profoundly retarded that he thought the money was his to take or i...

That's some ridiculous water-muddying there. DSG's motives aren't as crystal-clear as LLCs - I'd suggest a parallel narrative to your paranoid one where DSG was trying to make things better up to the day where he decided he needed to get control of the company before it went down in flames. Did tha...

Since some people try to ignore the facts: Loren L. Coleman co-mingled over half a million dollar. That's the cause of financial difficulties of IMR. Randall Bills is covering for LLC, to the point of telling Jennifer harding to quit if she cannot stomach falsifying reports to Topps on LLC's orders...

Monetization is converting a thought or one's labor into . . . money. Twitter offers a popular service, but they have relatively little revenue. Same for Facebook. They're both trying to figure out how to monetize [derive value] their social networks. People who write their own books and publish ind...

What's the BS claims? Randall Bills and Jason Hardy publicly stated that the AH's drafts were not going to be used as a template for the chapters in Corp Guide. However, side by side comparison of the two versions of Mitsuhama's corporate summary shows that they very clearly were. Now, Brandie Tahl...

That's of course the CGL POV. Oh, Fuchs, you silly fool. Even Frank has said that AH is a bit off the reservation. I'm not sure whether your propensity for finding scary beasts of bias lurking in every shadow is charming or a sign or paranoid obsession. In any event, AH is so full of hate and rage ...

Off the silly BT sidetrack and back onto how AH's is an asshat! He's now engaged in a public pissing match with the freelancer who redrafted his material. Good times.

Wow, that's awful defensive. I don't think anyone's yet accused anyone of violating someone else's copyright on the material. A dick in a box is still a dick. He wants people to think there are violations, but doesn't have the balls to say so. It's weak sauce. A nonissue? Really? I'll grant that it...

If we assume, for a brief moment, that AH honestly thinks he's been ripped off, then I think it makes absolute sense for him to be pissed about this. And as far as people making asses of themselves... I mean, have you read some of your posts? Uh. I'm a blatant troll. I don't even believe half the t...

"I'm Bobby and I'm acting out because I shat in someone else's sandbox and it didn't make the stink I thought it would." Unless huge swaths of his prose were lifted wholesale, he's got no leg to stand on. Copyright's about protecting actual expression, not ideas. That people working in the...