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Censoring an old strip?
cam94509:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 02 May 2013, 10:08 ---But new editions acknowledge that they are new.
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Sure, but I think there is no moral imperative to do so, especially given that they don't ever tell you what has changed where since edition 1.
pwhodges:
Are the people who argue that Jeph shouldn't have changed it prepared to be fully consistent and argue that he should now put back wording that is clearly understood to be hurtful to some people? If not, don't you think it's time to let this rather silly discussion go?
MillionDollar Belt Sander:
It's Jeph's comic. Jeph can do as he wishes.
That said, I prefer the original but I FULLY understand why the change was made. And I am not going to complain or argue the fact.
Is it cold in here?:
The first sale doctrine might be modified outside the Anglo-American world by an idea I've seen translated as "moral rights" of the author.
Copyright holders can sue under US law for "statutory damages" without having to establish a given degree of economic harm.
As long as Jeph was acting on his own principles (which he's done before) then I see no grounds for me to criticize, which would be idle anyway.
As far as getting across the joke of the strip, English is as far as I know without a verb for "to engage in what Erica Jong would have called a 'zipless fuck', which is a fantasy because the need for consent doesn't evaporate into thin air any more than the clothes do, and to describe it to a friend in such a way as to cause discomfort, producing nervous laughter in much the same way that poop jokes do, even though feces are not particularly comical, but without causing pain to survivors of violence or reducing the impact of the word for a violent crime".
Method of Madness:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 02 May 2013, 10:35 ---If not, don't you think it's time to let this rather silly discussion go?
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I don't think it's a silly discussion at all! I think it turned into an interesting conversation. As for the comic itself, I basically agree with MDBS's post now. I hadn't really thought about it, but now it makes sense. But it's still interesting to think about whether or not he should have changed it, even if we all agree that he has the right to.
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