Comments on: Weekend Cat Blogging #78: Extra! Extra! Angry Cat Sits on Newspaper!

By: melissa_cookingdiva

melissa_cookingdiva — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:51:43 +0000

OMG! I can understand why sweet loving cat is soo angry. Hope you resolved the issue. Those newspaper ladrones no tienen verguenza!!!

By: The Cat

The Cat — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 07:00:31 +0000

Sometimes crazy humans bring me crumply paper, but indeed they really should know better!

EEEEK! It’s a hedgehog! Prickly! Good thinking on that copyright thing, o wise hedgehoggy one. (Don’t tell but I eat dog food sometimes when the furball’s not looking.)

Oh, I have more letters up my sleeve. Wait. I don’t have sleeves. Oh, you get the idea. I’m holding out for a four-tiered, carpet covered perch. With overhead walkway to the kitchen counter.

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 05:56:16 +0000

Nooo! Angry Cat, you’d better get lots of catnip and treats out of this!

By: Alice Q. Foodie

Alice Q. Foodie — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 07:41:44 +0000

Hilarious – I love the letters, and am on the edge of my seat to see what happens next. Go get ‘em!

By: London Hedgehog

London Hedgehog — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 00:00:20 +0000

If the image was online for less than ninety days before this infringement took place, you can register the copyright formally and go after the paper for statutory damages for MUCH more money.

(I hope hedgehogs are welcome here. It’s true that we eat cat food when we can get it, but we don’t eat much.)

By: Cate O'Malley

Cate O'Malley — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 20:50:54 +0000

Your cat cracked me up, but I’m with him – bill ‘em! Crazy humans should know better.

By: The Cat

The Cat — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 20:04:38 +0000

Big bills are nice. Lots and lots of cat food. Or perhaps I should ask them for a job. How could they not want to be the first big city paper with a feisty old feline reporter?

Also, fourth graders are smart.

Nah, Topsy, kitchenmage isn’t a horse. She’s just “cheeky and charming” like you! Thbbbt!

By: Topsy the Tortoise

Topsy the Tortoise — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 03:52:08 +0000

They’re trying to pull a fast one and you know me, I don’t have time for people who jump the gun.

I love Kitchenmage’s idea, go for it. Who is Kitchenmage anyway? Is she a horse?

By: Kalyn

Kalyn — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 03:36:27 +0000

I agree completely that this is just *not fair*, as my fourth graders would say. Bill them, and make it a big bill.

By: kitchenmage

kitchenmage — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 12:41:06 +0000

My memory of the last picture I sold to a print house was in the mid hundreds, but that was a special sort of deal (went on the cover of my book but as a side thing).

I’d say submit a bill for twice what you’d have asked for the reuse if they had asked (~$500?) with a note explaining that you’re billing at a standard fee since they didn’t bother to arrange a deal up front. Also tell them they get a discount on the next image they BUY before they print it.