Daniel73 wrote:I fear that if keep Inducks keeps
Should be: I fear that if Inducks keeps
Rockerduck wrote:Egmont is the sponsor of Inducks?? Where did you find this out?? Do you have any proof of this, some piece of evidence?
Yes. I have evidence. An Induckser has written me about it. For example, when I got banned from Inducks as "troll", one given reason was that there was a fear I would tell people about Egmont being the sponsor. Telling about Egmont sponsoring would harm Inducks. I have that in an e-mail.
Recently, this Induckser has apologized for calling me a "troll" last year. As it turned out, I didn't fit in the definition. As he explained, a troll tries to destroy. My postings contained suggestions for improvements.
BTW. The apology was verbal, in private. So interesting. I've had this experience more. People call me names in public, and then they apologize in private. I would say a public offense deserves a public apology. But okay.
Rockerduck wrote:I wonder what Egmont could gain from sponsoring Inducks. What's in it for them? They could get into trouble when Disney gets to know it. At least, that's what I make of your post: "a reason was that Disney might protest about this sponsoring, as Egmont has no such publication rights for internet." But that then makes me wonder why Disney has not taken legal steps against Inducks *anyway*, regardless of who is the sponsor.
Egmont benefits of the indexes, as I've understood. Thanks to these indexes they have an administration of what they can order and what they have created themselves. Inducks is handy for professional use by editors. Also in the Netherlands, people have a professional benefit. I've understood that Dutch artists sometimes found out a creation wasn't payed by the editor yet, for example.
Disney apparently doesn't take legal steps because, from the outside, Inducks looks like some sort of fansite by selfpaying volunteers. As there are many, many, many sites by just fans.
If there turns out to be a professional or financial relation with Disney, at a fansite, then it's not just a regular fansite anymore. I'm told that Disney shouldn't know about this Egmont-sponsoring, because Egmont has no rights to sponsor such internet activities related to Disney.
I've understood that Egmont has a license to produce approximately 5000 comic book pages. (The Netherlands having 1000.) Egmont has no permission to sponsor Disney-publications on internet. I've understood that this is a reason why Egmont doesn't want the sponsoring to be known in public, and that the secretivity is a condition to keep the sponsoring. And so, given such risk, I wonder if the superiors at Egmont officially know about this. Maybe it's some action like DCML having been hosted by a government university? Maybe it's possible because Egmont is "a big place", too?
I've understood that Egmont pays for the Inducks server(s) by using an in-between company.
And I've understood that the Inducks license is just a wax nose. Just try to figure out who is responsible for Inducks as a whole. The license gives no clue. The license doesn't even give rights to Inducksers themselves.
Rockerduck wrote:Could Inducks really get in trouble? What would happen then? Would Disney take it down? Or would Egmont simply be forced to stop the sponsoring, and Inducks will get in financial troubles, after which it ceases to exist anyway?
If Egmont would stop the sponsoring, there are a many other sponsors who can sponsor a huge site like Inducks. For example, sponsors who desire to be open about their sponsoring. I think that secretive sponsoring for Inducks makes Inducksers too closed. Why isn't Inducks just an open club, sponsored by an open sponsor?