| DC has released a statement that Fables is NOT in the public domain. > The Fables comic books and graphic novels published by DC, and the storylines, characters, and elements therein, are owned by DC and protected under the copyright laws of the United States and throughout the world in accordance with applicable law and are not in the public domain. DC reserves all rights and will take such action as DC deems necessary or appropriate to protect its intellectual property rights. From: https://twitter.com/zachrabiroff/status/1702433264458248218 "Three subsequent copyright filings list the copyright holder as Willingham, with DC's copyright transferred by written agreement." Bill Willingham is listed as: "Authorship: text"
DC Comics, employer for hire is listed as: "Authorship: artwork" DC Comics is also listed as contact for: "Rights and Permissions" From: https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/9035/ownership-of-wo... > Definition: To qualify as a joint work, each author's individual contribution must be inseparable or interdependent, and the authors must intend to be joint authors (17 U.S.C. s 101, Childress v. Taylor, Erickson v. Trinity Theatre, Inc.). > Rights of use: Joint authors can independently exploit and license a work without consent of other co-authors, but have a duty to account profits to co-authors (House Report No. 94-1476 (1976), Goodman v. Lee, Community for Creative Non-Violence v. Reid, etc.). |