Mel wrote: "virtually all those poster dealers massively cheat on their taxes"
Why virtually and not all? Is it because you know I am 100% honest on my taxes?
And how about lawyers? Do you have any generalizations you want to make about them? Or how about people of color?
Stick to what you know and can prove.
Incidentally, is it fine with you if Ed copies all the material you have created for your sites (images and text) and adds it unattributed to HIS site? If not, why not?
Bruce
Most small businesses cheat on their taxes. That's just a fact, Bruce.
According to this article, small businesses cheat the IRS $122 billion every year, approximately 1/3 of the tax cheating in this country. Small law firms are just as bad as any other small business. Consequently, wage earners like me - who cannot hide their income or inflate cost of goods sold or make dubious business deductions - end up paying a higher share of the taxes than they should.
Ed and anybody else can take any movie poster image off my sites without permission or credit because those images are legally reproductions of copyrighted works or of formerly copyrighted works that have fallen into the public domain, so I have zero ownership right in them. I could care less anyway. The physical poster is what is important, not the image.
Likewise movie poster dealers and consignees have no ownership interest in images of movie posters. They have a temporary right per Section 109 of the US Copyright Act to post an image of the poster so long as the poster is available for sale. That right terminates when the physical poster is sold.
By contrast, as you should know, the text on your site and mine is an original work, is automatically copyrighted, and cannot be copied without permission. So you're comparing oranges and apples.
"People of color." You're just going off on a wild goose chase on that one.
Back on topic: Alex's website is a huge public service to the hobby and should be commended, not attacked.