But seriously I got no problem with the potential fanservice element of the upcoming film.

You’re not entitled to shit, and honestly - neither is Ed. He was contracted to provide a service in exchange for money. That contract is complete. He isn’t entitled to shit.

But that’s kind of how most music works, though, unless you are big enough to have the clout to control your recording rights.

What Brubaker did wasn’t quite like designing the logo for a band (plus, someone else literally did design a Winter Soldier logo for Bucky’s comic series) it was more like he wrote all the songs, and performed them along with some other talented artists.

Iv mean if you sell a million t-shirts with my logo, it is probably related to my logo.

Here is a better example than what you described. There is some person(s) who are/were employee(s) of Apple who were the ones who made massive design ideas to the first iPhone. They were massive, really why the thing took off designs, that were copied for the basis of all Smartphones as we now know them (maybe the…

You can do better how about the guy who wrote the code for MS-Dos and was paid 500 bucks for the OS that went on to make Microsoft the Billions of dollars the company is worth today.

“on the heels of the 2019 discovery”?

IP laws are bullshit, the corporation is in the wrong. To assume that the character should belong to that corporation because “it wouldn’t exist if the corporation hadnt paid the creator to make the character” is absolute horseshit.

Yes, actors keep getting paid residuals. Brubaker himself said he gets paid more money from his cameo in Winter Soldier than from creating Winter Soldier. The Screen Actors guild negotiated with the studios a system where anybody who appears as an actor on a show is entitled to some money (as little as pennies, but…

If the band’s contract specified the agreed upon terms of compensation and stated that they don’t own the music then they shouldn’t ever see a dime. Contracts don’t become less valid because you undervalued your work.

That’s like saying Marvel Studios makes movies and TV. Did you make movies and TV? Did you help them make movies and TV? 

Counterpoint: look at royalties for TV shows and movies. For apples to apples, look at just writers in the WGA and how they get compensated. In that case, there is still a ruthless corporation involved funding the production, but they have a labor union that fights for fair compensation.

In fairness, McFarlane’s major complaint about the majors’ exploitative work-for-hire system is that he wasn’t the one doing the exploiting.

Was waiting for this or similar comment. People are so focused on media and creative IP that they ignore the general workforce. An engineer getting paid to design and maintain a manufacturing facility can suggest and implement an idea that may save the company millions of dollars a year in production costs and they…

As someone who’s done a lot of contract copy writing in his career, I can corroborate this. When I accepted the contract I agreed to the paycheck. Has my work been reprinted repeatedly, even under other people’s bylines? Yes. But I agreed to turn in the copy, and get the paycheck, and that’s where their obligation to…

Arguably the most notable example of this (that immediately comes to mind) is with Carolyn Davidson (the designer of the Nike “swoosh”) and Nike.

Phil Knight paid her $35 for the design back in 1972, and while she worked for Nike after that point, it wasn’t until the 1980s that she was given Nike stock for her…

They DID see a dime. They saw lots and lots of dimes when they signed the contracts that said “Write us these issues and get paid for them, and agree that we own the rights to all the characters therein, especially because we already own most of them (Cap, Red Skull, Sharon Carter, etc.)

I dig Brubaker wishing he’d…

Fuel for the fire ... as with all intellectual property rights discussions, creators are given too much credit. People rush to say there would be no Winter Soldier without its creator. People forget there would be no Winter Soldier unless some ruthless corporation paid some poor defenseless creator to dream up said…

To me it’s more akin to a songwriter that ISN’T a member of the band but that writes the music (or at least some of it) not getting portions of the band’s revenue.