Robber Barons and the Poor People They Steal From

I'd like to point out to everyone that fresh off this post transforming into an Onion headline and with the still-stinging scars of that same magazine's poaching "Standard Deviation Not Enough for Perverted Statistician" last summer, the world at large has stolen from RF/Kindling archives once again...

This time, Sean "P Diddy" Combs nabs Andy Buchenot's "Vote or Die" campaign which was turned into a clever illustration for the NCC Chronicle's 2000 Election spread.

Not that I really mind, but I would rather see Mya wearing the logo he devised (which put a cartoon skull in the open space of the letter 'D') than the generic over-sized lettering on the official shirts.

The side-note to this story is that the most heated conversation I had with my parents during college was over my desire to begin officially copyrighting Kindling/Chronicle issues and content. In fairness, their concern was that the school would then try and prevent us from reprinting our own work in places like the RF galleries. Still, the Missouri in me can't help but be worried that greater (or actual) grievances are still to come. Now is probably the time to talk to Nancy Kirby about creating a intellectual property protection policy for NCC writers/artists.

Of course, the other side-note is that I'm fairly sure the Vote or Die and Barrel of Oil incidents were independently conceived... I cannot believe the same for Perverted Statistician.