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PolishTamales - Copyright Violation Update #2
Via Magic the Gathering!I would like to say how jarring this has been. If you guys don’t know yet, I am a freelance graphic designer and more recently, a storyboard artist. This is not by choice, but due to the current economy in America. I don’t have a normal 9-5 schedule like some of my peers do and I was living out of my car for a few months not too long ago.
I’ve been given a second chance to restart my life and a part of that process was rediscovering MTG with the people that helped support me during a very depressing transition in my life. Teaching Magic to the Marines around Oceanside in SoCal, reconnecting some old high school friends through play testing MTG on Skype, and finding new interesting people on Deviant Art, Twitter, & Tumblr. I’ve even made new friends, from people in Japan no less!
I enjoy entertaining the people around me. The internet has allowed me to do something that my old Graphic Designer counselor could only dream of during his underground comics phase in American comic publishing. Being able to entertain hundreds to thousands of people with simple strokes, text and a punchline and publish it in a matter of minutes.
So you can only imagine the kind of impact it has on me. Being told to sit down by Wizards of the Coast and telling me to stop. Telling me to stop doing things that not only helped me during my depression, but telling me to stop entertaining you, my followers, my friends. I would much rather have someone from WotC offering me a different opportunity other than a lawsuit.
This whole thing just breaks my heart.The infringement claim was filed by;
Carin G. Reynolds of the law firm Golenbock Eiseman Assor Bell & Peskoe LLP
Telephone (212) 907-7321
Fax: (212) 754-0777
E-mail: creynolds@golenbock.com
Address: 437 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10022
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