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NickFury

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May 9, 2010 9:10 am

When I was a kid, the guy who had the next desk to me in school regularly paid his 12 cents for a comic book (I forget which it was), and when he had finished reading it he gave it to me. I gave it to the kid who sat in front of me when I was finished with it, who passed it on in turn. We had a large class, and just about every kid in it read that comic. Others bought different comics, and they got passed around too. That's just the way it was. We were ten, maybe tweleve, years old: and nobody thought twice about it. The comics industry has always lived with the fact that they are basically selling to schoolkids, and that kids in school behave like this. And the industry has always survived. It's always been like that. And of course none of us kids made any money out of it. As I understand it, the guy at htlmcomics.com was not making any money either, just doing what kids do, even if they were in part current comics.

But so far as old comics go, I don't see how sharing a 30-year-old reprint of Action Comics #1 (if that's what you say he did) is depriving DC of any revenue in any way at all. Didn't I read somewhere that publisher's copyright expires after 25 years? Comic books published prior to 1985 will therefore have fallen out of copyright.