tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321339472666778123.post8841367938152408273..comments2024-02-03T13:09:38.313+00:00Comments on Mirabilis - Year of Wonders: King's heirs sue to get the crown backLeo Hartashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14417174942647091006noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321339472666778123.post-28372066970936519942010-03-24T10:45:13.450+00:002010-03-24T10:45:13.450+00:00Thanks, Peter - two more uses for my credit card :...Thanks, Peter - two more uses for my credit card :-)<br /><br />Leo and I have had a lot of experience with contracts and the various shenanigans that big companies will get up to. I wrote about some typical game industry tricks in Game Architecture & Design, but other businesses are just the same. <br /><br />My advice to any creative is: don't assume they care about your project just 'cause you do, get a good agent, and have a lawyer look at any contract before you sign it. Oh, and having paid for the lawyer, make sure you take his advice - don't let your eagerness to get on with a project blind you to the pitfalls in the contract. If a publisher or network won't negotiate terms, or indeed simply refuses to talk to your agent or lawyer, then they plan to shaft you and you shouldn't deal with them in a million years.<br /><br />Good movie to watch: The Spanish Prisoner. Mamet has been down the same road.Dave Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14468228790874490693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321339472666778123.post-36733912074498953342010-03-24T09:31:19.866+00:002010-03-24T09:31:19.866+00:00Like you Dave, I wish the Kirby family every succe...Like you Dave, I wish the Kirby family every success, it's the little guys up against the big corporates who have endless supplies of money that they would rather spend on expensive suits rather than the creatives who helped make their companies a success in the first place.<br /><br />Two books which make essential and really fascinating reading are Ronin Ro's "Tales To Astonish", which focuses a lot on Jack Kirby and if that isn't salutory enough there's Gerard Jone's excellent and captivating "Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters and the Birth of the ComicBook".<br /><br />After reading those two you'll never enter a publisher's office without bringing along a team of enforcers and contract lawyers.Peter Richardsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15566601617123798061noreply@blogger.com