The Mutant Database: Media Franchise Authorship, Creators' Rights, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Description:
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) is a massive ongoing franchise that began as a 1984 self-published comic book created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. Its history is intertwined with the creators' rights movement and the Creator's Bill of Rights (CBR), which rejected work-for-hire contracts, wherein creative laborers—creative authors—cede authorial control of their labor. Because the production of comic books and their franchises is highly collaborative, intellectual property (IP) rights a…
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Date:
May 2022
Creator:
Cardenas, Jen
Partner:
UNT Libraries