Off the Off the Mark
Cidu Bill on Apr 3rd 2009
For the first time in 14+ years, a comic strip artist has asked me to stop using his comics.
Okay, this isn’t precisely true. Even though what I do is covered by “fair use” under law, I’ve always been very clear about my willingness to not use anybody’s comics if they simply ask me not to. I will respect cartoonists’ wishes without question.
Presumably, though, Mark Parisi’s “representative” could not figure out how to reach me, so she went straight to WordPress and demanded they shut down my site (as it happens, this was my old site, which I haven’t touched in almost two years, which is why you probably didn’t notice anything was gone).
Six of the seven Off the Mark comics on the old sites were tagged as LOL’s, by the way.
Anyway, please don’t send me Off the Mark comics anymore.
This all being said, however, I’m not necessarily blaming Mr. Parisi for this less-than-classy maneuver: It’s very possible that his “representative,” whatever her actual function might be (she didn’t elaborate to WordPress and they didn’t ask), just took this action upon herself.
All cleared up. Huzzah! (see comments)
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