>Presented here are pages from the highly sought after, but never published for sale, 1982 DC Comics Style Guide. These images were used for marketing and licensing while also serving as reference material for other artists.
It's not so obvious to me he's breaking any law. Yeah, he doesn't have rights to publish detailed character drawings, yadda yadda. But is that what he's doing? He's posting digitized excerpts from a freely distributed, 33 year old style guide. Is that the same thing?
Those are sincere questions. You seem to know a lot more about this than I do. I honestly don't know what terms would come with that style guide in 1982. I know some modern "style guides", say mobile HCI guidelines, are copyrighted but can be redistributed.
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It's not so obvious to me he's breaking any law. Yeah, he doesn't have rights to publish detailed character drawings, yadda yadda. But is that what he's doing? He's posting digitized excerpts from a freely distributed, 33 year old style guide. Is that the same thing?
Those are sincere questions. You seem to know a lot more about this than I do. I honestly don't know what terms would come with that style guide in 1982. I know some modern "style guides", say mobile HCI guidelines, are copyrighted but can be redistributed.