Red Sonya LLC threatens legal action over blue sonya parody comic
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So a company that makes it's living off of using other peoples IP is suing because someone is doing the same to them?
Red Sonya is a character by Robert E. Howard anyways.
Which is in the public domain as well
Well, akshually, Howard's Red Sonya was a mercenary in medieval Europe, definitely not a chainmail bikini-wearing Hyrkanian from the Hyborian Age. That character was invented wholecloth by Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor Smith in the 70s and that copyright hasn't expired yet.
Yes but couldn't you just say you were parodying howards red sonya
OK, yeah, I goofed. Well, we all did. Howard's character was named Red Sonya, but the character invented by Roy Thomas and subsequently published by Marvel and Dynamite is spelled Red Sonja. As far as copyright claims go, this one was even more tenuous than I originally thought. I guess the threat of lawsuit was all it took, even though AP was 100% in the clear. Even with the chainmail bikini. It's been about two years since I stopped watching Comicsgate YouTube, but the US comic book industry is fucking UGLY. Bunch of spiteful, backstabbing crabs in a bucket.
EDIT: Yeah, and it's called Red Sonja LLC, akshually.