Paywall sucks, but it seems like if you read them daily as though it were a newspaper it won’t bite you. It’s owned by the Syndicate that published C&H in the first place, so I’m not surprised they’re glomming onto an old business model.
They never had a chance at fair use. They were literally posting multiple strips every day, the exact product that Gocomics wants to monetize and owns the rights to distribute. This is not the same as lifting 15 minutes of a Marvel movie to punctuate an hour-long commentary video.
As noted, Reddit is increasingly a very prominent web destination, at least while its human-submitted content outweighs AI slop, and Google is sending searchers there as a first listing. You cannot be under the radar on a public subreddit any more.
I mean, fuck ‘em and all, and get your comics wherever you can – while he was no fan of derivative works I doubt Bill Watterson would care very much about ensuring Gocomics makes any money – but the redditors’ naive indignation is misplaced.
Maybe, but we don’t know how much residual income it’s bringing him, he had a famously contentious relationship with his syndicate, he refused other streams of ancillary income for the both of them, and he ended the strip at the height of its popularity.
I mean, fuck ‘em and all, and get your comics wherever you can – while he was no fan of derivative works I doubt Bill Watterson would care very much about ensuring Gocomics makes any money – but the redditors’ naive indignation is misplaced.
“was”? Watterson is still alive.
I know. “Was” was more meant to describe the era in which Bill Watterson was making public comments of any kind. Sorry for the confusion.
What are you talking about, isn’t this Watterson’s income you’re trying to “work around”?
Maybe, but we don’t know how much residual income it’s bringing him, he had a famously contentious relationship with his syndicate, he refused other streams of ancillary income for the both of them, and he ended the strip at the height of its popularity.