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I just got slapped in the face with the news that Ken Penders is apparently going to try reprinting the entire Archie Sonic comic series from beginning to end under his "Floating Island Productions" label

Not because he owns the rights to it, no. His entire legal basis can only be described as "I dare you to stop me."

The short version of this long twitter thread is him basically saying "Lawyers cost a lot of money, and the last time I faced Sega in court1 they clearly did not care about funding legal costs against me, therefore I am invincible forever."

I for one can't wait for the other shoe to drop.

  1. Note: This was over a decade ago.

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everything about Ken Penders is amazing to me because so much of it could be summed up as "I am going to poke the angry bear, fail, and then act like I won despite getting my face sliced clean off"

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Setsune
@Setsune

https://x.com/KenPenders/status/1807229346937221545

Just when I thought he was starting to pull his life together (he actually got a book out, terrible it may be, it's still a book you can buy!), he's lost it. He's declaring on Xitter "I'm going to do an I.P. theft now!" Entirely talking out of his ass, I'm sure, maybe to draw eyeballs back onto him and his book. But, uh, statement of intent to commit a crime I think? My dude, you've worked in comics, you know that's not how that works.

Downside is this could screw over fan projects, crafts, etc. Sega has been relatively loose with, because companies always overcorrect after dealing with something like this.

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HedgeMom
@HedgeMom

I know he's been planning this for awhile, but I feel like that recent video that mattt guy did on sonic archie gave him entirely too much understanding and slack and this emboldened him to do more stupid shit

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jcolag
@jcolag

Oh, that reminds me of this hilarious mess: https://www.adweek.com/galleycat/shadow-doc-savage-in-e-book-limbo

Guy who didn't understand copyright declared a bunch of famous books public domain and started publishing them. When the owners asked him to stop, he started screaming that he now owned them, because he published them when the owner wouldn't. It went about as well as you'd expect, but he did trick a bunch of anti-copyright people into supporting his defense...

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Foxhack
@Foxhack

Considering current Sega actually cares about the comics in print, and has even incorporated elements of them in their games, they may actually go ahead and sue Penders. Dude is going to regret this so much.

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