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I was gonna
May. 9th, 2016 01:12 pmI was gonna write an inside-nerd-con-baseball post about one thing, but this other thing is a thing that I thought I'd mention, is that Anime Expo has laid down a lot of new interesting rules for staff, exhibitors, and AA table-ers.
https://www.spja.org/youth-protection-program/
Background checks (that the exhibitors pay for), and now even press and animation industry professionals have to pay to get in. It's a big change and people are ventin'.
Turns out the people running AX these days, or at least handling the vendors and other services, is/are IDG World Expo, who also run MacWorld and E3 and Digital Entertainment World, etc. http://www.idgworldexpo.com/about/
If you didn't think this kinda thing was big business, think again.
Which segues into the thing I was going to talk about before, which is a convention selling lithographs of artwork by a guest, the artwork being of licensed characters, and the convention does not have the license to sell merchandise featuring these characters and didn't even attempt to get the license to sell merchandise featuring these characters, and I don't think it's going to cause any actual legal problems for anybody but it looks really, really, really unprofessional. It just does.
https://www.spja.org/youth-protection-program/
Background checks (that the exhibitors pay for), and now even press and animation industry professionals have to pay to get in. It's a big change and people are ventin'.
Turns out the people running AX these days, or at least handling the vendors and other services, is/are IDG World Expo, who also run MacWorld and E3 and Digital Entertainment World, etc. http://www.idgworldexpo.com/about/
If you didn't think this kinda thing was big business, think again.
Which segues into the thing I was going to talk about before, which is a convention selling lithographs of artwork by a guest, the artwork being of licensed characters, and the convention does not have the license to sell merchandise featuring these characters and didn't even attempt to get the license to sell merchandise featuring these characters, and I don't think it's going to cause any actual legal problems for anybody but it looks really, really, really unprofessional. It just does.
