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Ive heard about Conde Nast and the copyright issue. What is that about?

April 26, 2017conde nast copyright heard ISSUE

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Ive heard about Conde Nast and the copyright issue. What is that about?

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In January of 2004, I learnt about Condé Nast’s lawyers sending out a cease-and-desist (C&D) letter via e-mail to various Webmasters and Webmistresses of Shadow-related Web sites. The Shadow sites that had pulps in pdf and scanned pulp covers were told to remove all Shadow material or face legal action; this led to some sites shutting down permanently. In the wake of this (even though I haven’t received a C&D letter), I had to take the scanned pulp covers and pulp novels off my site. UPDATE – There is an explanation for all this: Condé Nast (who renewed their copyrights a long time ago, not recently) has future plans for The Shadow. They are re-releasing the pulps soon (hence the C&D for the sites offering free downloadable pulps) and a new Shadow movie among other things. (Thank you to Earl Roggeman for a heads up!) If you want to know more about copyrights, check out this site: 10 Big Myths about Copyright Explained (Thank you to John Helvin for this link!