Comments on: Raw Zudanotes I: Submission Agreement

By: Fleen: Enjoy Our Semi-Abusive Opinion Mongering » Spike Speaks

Fleen: Enjoy Our Semi-Abusive Opinion Mongering » Spike Speaks — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:29:59 +0000

[...] my email yesterday and received this unsolicited gem: …I was just looking over some old Fleen articles about Zuda’s contracts and I just cannot freaking get over [...]

By: Fleen on Zuda at Undependent

Fleen on Zuda at Undependent — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 19:21:42 +0000

[...] Gary Tyrrell shared his analysis of the Zuda contract docs in a series of posts on the submission agreement, the rights agreement, the services agreement, and his final thoughts. He concludes with: But as [...]

By: Fleen: Your Favorite Faux-Muckrakers Since 2005 » Zuda Thoughts: Final

Fleen: Your Favorite Faux-Muckrakers Since 2005 » Zuda Thoughts: Final — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:15:43 +0000

[...] Reviews Okay, so we’ve picked apart the contracts, and we’ve all had plenty of time to think about things. Let’s put [...]

By: Fleen: Your Favorite Faux-Muckrakers Since 2005 » Raw Zudanotes III: Services Agreement

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:06:21 +0000

[...] and reversions under which you can submit. First impression: the Services Agreement is between the Submission (short) and Rights (long) Agreements in length. As before, numbers are taken from the various [...]

By: Adam Stephanides

Adam Stephanides — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:11:08 +0000

I can’t speak to the merits of the contract as a whole, but it seems to me (as a non-lawyer) that you’re reading too much into paragraph 10. Taking into account the phrase “created by or for Zuda without the benefit of the Submission” (my emphasis), I think they’re trying to protect themselves from being sued in case they already have something similar to a Zuda Submission in the works, or someone within DC comes up with a similar idea without having read the Submission. (A lot of entertainment companies won’t read any unsolicited submissions for this reason.) Of course, they could copy your submission and claim that they’d come up with it independently; but they could do that even without Paragraph 10.

By: Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics Journal » Blog Archive » Sept. 25, 2007: A comic that no longer makes any sense

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 08:20:50 +0000

[...] Gary Tyrrell combs through the Zudacomics submission agreement. Christopher Butcher and T Campbell each have [...]