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DC Comics/Warner Brothers continues to rip off creators
Gerry Conway is not a fan of DC Comics’ currently royalty policies. The longtime comic creator wrote a post on his Tumblr late last month about the tricky policies the Warner Bros.-owned company currently employs regarding royalties creators receive when characters they’ve created make their way into different mediums like film and television.
Specifically, Conway notes that he created a character called Crystal Frost otherwise known as the villain Killer Frost. A version of that character, Caitlin Snow, is currently being used on the CW series Arrow, but he’s not getting any royalties because of the name change. As it happens, said name change was implemented by current comic writer Sterling Gates, but he’s not going to get any royalties because that version is derivative of the original character.
“Caitlin Snow was created by Sterling Gates and Derlis Santacruz,” Conway wrote. “Except, according to DC Entertainment, she wasn’t. Because she was ‘derived’ from the original creation of Killer Frost. Which means Al Milgrom and I created her. Except, according to DC Entertainment, we didn’t. Nobody created her. Or, rather, nobody gets credit and creator equity participation for creating her. And that, my friends, is truly obnoxious and despicable. DC Entertainment has created a marvelous catch-22 that allows them to cheat creators by using both sides of an argument to serve DC’s interests.”
Specifically, Conway notes that he created a character called Crystal Frost otherwise known as the villain Killer Frost. A version of that character, Caitlin Snow, is currently being used on the CW series Arrow, but he’s not getting any royalties because of the name change. As it happens, said name change was implemented by current comic writer Sterling Gates, but he’s not going to get any royalties because that version is derivative of the original character.
“Caitlin Snow was created by Sterling Gates and Derlis Santacruz,” Conway wrote. “Except, according to DC Entertainment, she wasn’t. Because she was ‘derived’ from the original creation of Killer Frost. Which means Al Milgrom and I created her. Except, according to DC Entertainment, we didn’t. Nobody created her. Or, rather, nobody gets credit and creator equity participation for creating her. And that, my friends, is truly obnoxious and despicable. DC Entertainment has created a marvelous catch-22 that allows them to cheat creators by using both sides of an argument to serve DC’s interests.”
Whole article here:
http://www.geek.com/news/power-girl-creator-calls-shenanigans-on-dcs-royalty-program-1622120/
