Talk:Don Murphy

I corrected the bit about Moore; adaptations still happen, and he won't prevent them because comics are a collaborative medium and it's not his say, but he refuses to accept any money for them. I recommend that the last, made-up bit should be removed, both for the inaccuracy and because I think it belabors the joke; we'd have a better, funnier article without it. The disambig makes me smile. Chip 04:01, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

He actually is disallowing adaptions of all the work he has full copyright control over. Much of his work is co-owned with Marvel or DC, or just the artist he was collaborating with under terms such that he can't block the sale of rights from being sold. So he's blocking what he can, and refusing to take money for (and disavowing) the rest.

The article originally had a note to that effect, but I worried that the level of detail into Alan Moore's business dealings was excessive for an article on Don Murphy. (Really, I can only justify the long lawsuit footnote because the entirely COINCIDENTAL fact that it was Don on the DVD commentary cheerily affirming the damningly circumstantial production timeline.) I will try to either add it in, or if that doesn't work render the Moore statement into a more general 'left hollywood' that encompasses both states of affairs.

The Majin Zarak disambig makes me smile too, but I wish I hadn't forgotten the word 'the.' You're probably right about the Ewok joke- it's a holdover from the first draft of the article when I though it was just going to be a 'what a jerk!' joke- before I started reading and realized that the man actually has left a trail of destruction, chaos and lawsuits in his wake on virtually ever project he's ever been attached to. (Sadly that that poitn it meant I had to be accurate and fact-checking and researching takes much longer.)

I'm gonna run an errand- so I'll take a look at article revisions in about 40 minutes. If you want to get in any edits without stepping on my toes before then, now's the chance.  ;) -Derik 04:17, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Ah, good to know. I figure what I changed the Moore line to is as succinct and accurate as we can get (I mostly just want to fend off any questions about V For Vendetta and the like), but I'm not particularly attached to it.Chip 04:32, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

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