{"id":1664,"date":"2008-03-31T20:53:15","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T00:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/2008\/03\/31\/go-read\/"},"modified":"2008-03-31T20:54:31","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T00:54:31","slug":"go-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=1664","title":{"rendered":"Go, read: What The Siegel Case Should Mean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><font size=\"3\">&#8220;The comics industry needs to rectify its historical abuses as best it can, no matter if a court makes them or not. It needs to do this right now. It needs to do it publicly. It needs to do it in a way that honors the creative process&#8230; And then, when this is done, it needs to make an unrelenting, industry-wide commitment to the notion that these matters have moral force and that exploitation is intolerable no matter what a legal construction allows. Because there are just as many horrible people out there right now who want creators&#8217; movie rights or who come to the table offering little more than a small advance in order to put their name on someone else&#8217;s work, and just as many if not more apologists for same. In a way, it&#8217;s hard to blame them. After all, for 70 years, Superman said it was okay.&#8221;<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tom Spurgeon<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreporter.com\/index.php\/what_the_siegel_case_should_mean\/\">http:\/\/www.comicsreporter.com\/index.php\/what_the_siegel_case_should_mean\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The comics industry needs to rectify its historical abuses as best it can, no matter if a court makes them or not. It needs to do this right now. It needs to do it publicly. It needs to do it in a way that honors the creative process&#8230; And then, when this is done, it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=1664\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Go, read: What The Siegel Case Should Mean&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}