“Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny’s the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do.” — Bill Willingham, Fables: Werewolves of the Heartland
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https://yahooeysblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/quote-of-the-day-5325/
A quotation from Bill Willingham
BIGBY: Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny’s the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do.
Bill Willingham (b. 1956) American writer and comics artist
Fables: Werewolves of the Heartland, ch. 9 (2012)
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« Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Cartes Monstres - Série 2 », 1982
Illustrations for #ADnD monster cards by #EtolOtus #JeffDee #BillWillingham #JimRoslof #DavidSLaforce ,
TSR Inc., 1982
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« Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Cartes Monstres - Série 1 », 1982
Illustrations for #ADnD monster cards by #EtolOtus #JeffDee #BillWillingham #JimRoslof #DavidSLaforce ,
TSR Inc., 1982
#vintagefantasyart #fantasyart #fantasyillustration #ad&d #DungeonsAndDragons #FRPG #TTRPG
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All #Fables #comics are now #PublicDomain thanks to #DCComics ruining their relations with the author #BillWillingham
https://billwillingham.substack.com/p/willingham-sends-fables-into-the
via @popgeeks Is Bill Willingham’s Fables Now Public Domain? https://popgeeks.com/is-bill-willinghams-fables-now-public-domain/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Books #Comics #News #billwillingham #comicbooks
Interesting. We need more of this. The Fables now belongs with the community. The opportunities for growth are now limitless.
#FOSS #TheFables #BillWillingham
https://billwillingham.substack.com/p/willingham-sends-fables-into-the
Pluralistic: #BillWillingham puts his graphic novel series #Fables into the #PublicDomain (15 Sept 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
I really enjoyed #Fables until #BillWillingham decided to make the “rabidly pro-Israel” (his words) subtext the actual text, so I’m a bit conflicted about Bill and his work.
Nonetheless, this is an interesting development in the relationship between creators and those mega-corporations which only exist to appropriate and artlessly exploit the creations of others. See also #AlanMoore instructing #DC to give all his film royalties to #BlackLivesMatter
https://www.avclub.com/bill-willingham-says-fables-is-in-the-public-domain-now-1850841102
https://billwillingham.substack.com/p/willingham-sends-fables-into-the fuck awesome, stick it to corpos #billwillingham
As for Bill Willingham’s Public Domain rationale beyond DC’s repulsive sewer show, I’m fully on board with that.
I’ve always been a copyright minimalist; I’ve always tried to be as generous as I can—short of starving—with CC licensing; and copyright has long since become the cudgel of corporate lawyers and psychotic “estates” against readers & writers anyway.
20 years sounds good to me. Count me in.
https://billwillingham.substack.com/p/willingham-sends-fables-into-the
#DC #Fables #copyright #billwillingham #PublicDomain #CreativeCommons
It's been 21 years since #BillWillingham launched #Fables, his 110-issue, wide-ranging, delightful and brilliantly crafted author-owned comic series that imagines that the folkloric figures of the world's fairytales are real people, who live in a secret society whose internal struggles and intersections with the mundane world are the source of endless drama.
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This story is fascinating.
"during the contract negotiations for the new issues, their legal negotiators tried to make it a condition of the deal that the work be done as work for hire, effectively throwing the property irrevocably into the hands of DC. When that didn’t work their excuse was, “Sorry, we didn’t read your contract going into these negotiations. We thought we owned it.”
#Fables #BillWillingham #PublicDomain
https://billwillingham.substack.com/p/willingham-sends-fables-into-the
#Fabulas pasa al #DominioPúblico por decisión de su autor, #BillWillingham
#Fables goes to #PublicDomain by author's decision.
https://billwillingham.substack.com/p/willingham-sends-fables-into-the?r=afz1t
As of now, 15 September 2023, the comic book property called Fables, including all related Fables spin-offs and characters, is now in the public domain
#copyright #billwillingham #dccomics
#BillWillingham es un jefote. Ha pasado la propiedad intelectual de sus #Fabulas a domínio público ante la negligencia de #DC de respetar los términos originales de su contrato.
Ahora cualquiera podrá crear historias de #TheWolfAmongUs como se le antoje.
https://www.vidaextra.com/cultura/no-puedo-permitirme-demandar-a-dc-autor-fabulas-libera-sus-derechos-al-dominio-publico-incluyendo-the-wolf-among-us
After 20 yrs, #BillWillingham releases #Fables into the #PublicDomain. *HE* is still under contract with #DCComics for future work / #royalties / project approval, but the public is not, not bound by #trademarks or #copyright, & free to do as they like with it in #FanFic & other forms of #art.
He's had disputes with DC Comics forever w/o much relief & this is one of his ways to fight back.
https://billwillingham.substack.com/p/willingham-sends-fables-into-the
#trademark #PressRelease #IP #IntellectualProperty #TellTaleGame #CopyrightLaw
