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I really wanted to enter TokyoPop's Rising Stars of Manga contest, but if I sign the contract they own my soul.

The contract says (I swear I am not making any of this up) that they are not responsible for personal injury, property loss or damage, my DEATH, or the loss of my prize money through the mail. Yes, thats right, I could die a horrible death because of some rabid fanboy, and if they lose the prize money in the mail, we can't get it back to pay for my funeral costs.

And they also have the right to sell my information to newspapers, magizines, pedifiles, the Cuban governement and former president Bill Clinton. Not to mention the fact that if I refuse to sign the release to post my information on the internet for the entire world to see, they revoke my prize money, but still have the right to hire a new artist to redraw my manga entry, and a new writer to change names and stuff so copyright doesn't apply anymore.

And you can't forget about the fact that if I win, I also have to pitch the story to their higher ups, and if we can't agree on terms I can't redraw my entry, make it longer, change dialogue, or sell it to another publisher. If I do, then I lose my prize money, my place in the book and they still own the rights to my story, and can still just screw me over and have it drawn and written by different people.

Sounds like they covered all the bases.

I really wanted to enter TokyoPop's Rising Stars of Manga contest, but if I sign the contract they own my soul.

The contract says (I swear I am not making any of this up) that they are not responsible for personal injury, property loss or damage, my DEATH, or the loss of my prize money through the mail. Yes, thats right, I could die a horrible death because of some rabid fanboy, and if they lose the prize money in the mail, we can't get it back to pay for my funeral costs.

And they also have the right to sell my information to newspapers, magizines, pedifiles, the Cuban governement and former president Bill Clinton. Not to mention the fact that if I refuse to sign the release to post my information on the internet for the entire world to see, they revoke my prize money, but still have the right to hire a new artist to redraw my manga entry, and a new writer to change names and stuff so copyright doesn't apply anymore.

And you can't forget about the fact that if I win, I also have to pitch the story to their higher ups, and if we can't agree on terms I can't redraw my entry, make it longer, change dialogue, or sell it to another publisher. If I do, then I lose my prize money, my place in the book and they still own the rights to my story, and can still just screw me over and have it drawn and written by different people.

Sounds like they covered all the bases.
Ha! Sounds to me like the manga creator's version of the bullshit Poetry.com dishes out! I smell "scam!" :(

Ha! Sounds to me like the manga creator's version of the bullshit Poetry.com dishes out! I smell "scam!" :(
Lol, I entered that too, and that was three years ago. They're still sending me requests for money and book deals.

I really wanted to enter TokyoPop's Rising Stars of Manga contest, but if I sign the contract they own my soul.

The contract says (I swear I am not making any of this up) that they are not responsible for personal injury, property loss or damage, my DEATH, or the loss of my prize money through the mail. Yes, thats right, I could die a horrible death because of some rabid fanboy, and if they lose the prize money in the mail, we can't get it back to pay for my funeral costs.

And they also have the right to sell my information to newspapers, magizines, pedifiles, the Cuban governement and former president Bill Clinton. Not to mention the fact that if I refuse to sign the release to post my information on the internet for the entire world to see, they revoke my prize money, but still have the right to hire a new artist to redraw my manga entry, and a new writer to change names and stuff so copyright doesn't apply anymore.

And you can't forget about the fact that if I win, I also have to pitch the story to their higher ups, and if we can't agree on terms I can't redraw my entry, make it longer, change dialogue, or sell it to another publisher. If I do, then I lose my prize money, my place in the book and they still own the rights to my story, and can still just screw me over and have it drawn and written by different people.

Sounds like they covered all the bases.
Ninja's gonna git you! Ninja's gonna git you!

Ninja's gonna git you! Ninja's gonna git you!
huh? I don't think I get it...

Ooh, you draw manga? Got anything online?

huh? I don't think I get it...
Sigh. :headbang:

Manga.

Blood Contracts.

Ninjas.

Did I really have to point that out to someone who aspires to draw Manga? :rolleyes:

Ooh, you draw manga? Got anything online?
No, but you can look at my flag on nationstates...
http://www.nationstates.net/silence_and_nothing

Sigh. :headbang:

Manga.

Blood Contracts.

Ninjas.

Did I really have to point that out to someone who aspires to draw Manga? :rolleyes:
Well, I had an idea, but the way you worded it you sounded like a spammer.

Sounds like complete bullcrap to me. Also the way several large miniature games companies operate. I worked for one once and had to sign an intelluctual property clause in my contract of employmen that said basically if I invented/created anything in their field after I left the company, they'd own the rights to it! Stamp out this nonsense please! :headbang:


Tee hee hee, 69 posts.... (juvenile moment) :D

Sounds like complete bullcrap to me. Also the way several large miniature games companies operate. I worked for one once and had to sign an intelluctual property clause in my contract of employmen that said basically if I invented/created anything in their field after I left the company, they'd own the rights to it! Stamp out this nonsense please! :headbang:


Tee hee hee, 69 posts.... (juvenile moment) :D
I understand that it's all for money, but I'm sure that the ideas of a bunch of kids and random fanboys who live in their mother's basement aren't going to be pure gold.
I mean, why go through all this trouble if in the end they're gonna lose some money?
And that death thing, if they listed it, does that mean that it happened? O.O