Joe Quesada has been editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics for roughly ten years now. He is moving on, not away from Marvel or chief-editing, but on to being “Chief Creative Officer of Marvel Entertainment”; the new job description also reflects the recently broadened focus on Marvel productions in various media, including but not limited to comics, a change also related to the Marvel/Disney merger, and apropos to the number of recent and upcoming Marvel comic book adaptations at the movies as well as their unprecedented intertextual co-ordination. »»»»
Monthly Archive for January, 2011
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I recently said we needed more creative ways to deal with Wikileaks and Cablegate: As a kind of cultural brainstorming, producing concepts and arguments before deciding which of them are keepers; but also as a re-assertion of creative voices in the face of a publication that threatens to overwhelm on many levels. Since I did so, several readers have pointed out some more creative responses (thank you!). »»»»
One of the three projects I outlined for 2011 concerns the study of textual control. As a collection of hypotheses to be tested, for future reference as well as immediate discussion, here are some basic suggestions on what that might mean. »»»»
Back with more. While I think this series will continue, it will certainly not keep up the current volume once the new year’s actual workload gets serious on me. »»»»
Meredith L. Patterson has issued a call for submissions to a remarkable collection entitled All the Citizen’s Men: It promises ‘critical responses’ to individual cables from the wikileaks collection. Among the many trials and errors reacting to a new phenomenon, this is easily the most promising I have seen. »»»»
When I decided to experiment with a regular post pointing at various things on the internet that I enjoyed, I underestimated my own verbosity. Wanting to jot down just a short comment for every link, I ended up turning the very first one into one of the longest posts I had ever written. The same thing, more or less, happened for several others, which are now in the archives, waiting for a rainy day.
Anyway, here are some links that got away with just a line or two of my own. The idea is that if you’re reading Signifying Media, you might also be interested in some or all of the following on the grounds that I am. »»»»
Eines der literaturwissenschaftlichen Interessen an textueller Kontrolle betrifft die Herstellung und Pflege von Textkonzepten durch die ihnen scheinbar äußerliche Rechtspflege. Mit den Urteilen des BGH zum Perlentaucher liegt nun im Volltext ein Stück juridischen Diskurses um textuelle Kontrolle vor, das einige Aufmerksamkeit genießt, in der Sache aber kaum überraschend ist: Der urheberrechtliche Streit ging um die Abstracts, die der Perlentaucher von Rezensionen in SZ und FAZ anfertigte und seinerseits weiterlizenzierte. Es bleibt nach dem Urteil für die urheberrechtliche Einschätzung von solchen Abstracts bei dem wesentlichen Kriterium der Schöpfungshöhe, so daß das Ausmaß der eigenen Formulierung im Gegensatz zur bloß kürzenden Bearbeitung einer Quelle darüber entscheidet, ob erst eine Zustimmung des Urhebers dieser Quelle eingeholt werden muß. Thomas Stadler hat das in seinem Kommentar aus juristischer Perspektive ausführlicher erklärt.
Ebensowenig überraschend und damit umso ergiebiger sind die Urteilstexte in den drei Aspekten ausgefallen, die für eine kulturwissenschaftliche Reflektion der juridischen Konstruktion von Texten und Urheberschaft entscheidend sein dürften: »»»»
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