Conversation with a lawyer maybe...

[xadrian]

What do you guys think of this?

http://www.labyrinthent.com/TITLES/god.htm

I mean, it's clever, but I wouldn't push it for sale anywhere. Unless you can just use art like that. Hundreds of years old or not, it's still not yours.

[brendon]

I wouldn't necessarily feel good about myself for selling something like that...but if someone continued with it up to the point that they actually did some work...I guess that would be ok...

Those 2 pages there looked a bit too easy to put together...

Make it 20 pages...and actuallly have some consistancy between the characters faces, maybe even add a touch of your own art...then we can talk about sales...

Anyway...I thought that was a cool 2 pager...thanks for sharing .

[Inkthinker]

Actually, I think the works of Da Vinci are part of the public domain... furthermore you've credited the fact that the illustrations are Da Vinci drawings, and since you've re-arranged them to create a sequential story, I think that legally you're in the clear. Not to mention that given the context of the dialogue, the Da Vinci illustrations are actually very appropriate and pretty clever. I'd say DON'T add any of your own art... it would just distract from the overall impact of the work, because I think people would question the reasoning of it.

Nah, finish it out and sell it. So far I think it's pretty good dialogue... something like Heavy Metal might dig it.

[xadrian]

I was going to ask about public domain, but what's to stop you from "obtaining" images of ALL the classics and arranging them thusly and just putting word balloons on it?

Yeah, legally it's ok, but it just doesn't sit well with me. I guess it's no different than the League of Ex. Gtlmn. I don't know.

[brendon]

For example, scientists don't "create" equations and formulas, and they don't even "invent" them. The fact that H^2 + 0 = Water was a fact long before somebody put it into words.

So the thing that people get credit for is "organization". Putting things together in a way that people can understand...

So if you organize some collage of Master's artwork in a way that hasn't been done before, you get %100 percent credit for that...

Just don't expect to get credit for the actual drawings, and you'll be fine

[Inkthinker]

Originally posted by xadrian
I was going to ask about public domain, but what's to stop you from "obtaining" images of ALL the classics and arranging them thusly and just putting word balloons on it?

Well... nothing, really. And if you do it in a clever, amusing fashion, people will say you're "avant-garde" or some shit.

Seriously, I think it's pretty good stuff, and I don't see a problem with it, myself. Finish the dialogue.