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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
I honestly doubt CN expects Doc Savage and the Shadow to be worth that much. Judging by their past actions, they just seem to want to maximize their profit off the property, regardless of its worth on the market. That'll probably keep people away from it, therefore, when they see what CN wants to charge.
They lost their chance to market it when Indiana Jones was big... and now retro adventure is getting tired. At this point, they might as well sell at a loss.
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For stuff like The Shadow and Doc Savage, I think the smart thing for CN to have done would have been to allow Blackmask to continue to host the files, but with CN copyright notices clearly affixed, and "offered by permission of Conde Nast" emblazoned. This would have protected CN's rights, and helped keep the material in front of the audience, increasing, if by a tiny amount, the chance that someone would see a market and want to license print, TV or film rights. It's not like CN was losing revenue on Blackmask's offerings, since BM wasn't charging and CN wasn't selling anything competing.
I can't see CN's action as anything other than a reaction to the fact that if you
don't defend your rights on stuff like that, you can lose them.
Of course, the idea that you might make more on something long term by giving it away short-term isn't something that would occur to them.
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Dennis