Download or read book Copyright Vigilantes written by Ezra Claverie and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2024-06-17 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Copyright Vigilantes: Intellectual Property and the Hollywood Superhero explains superhero blockbusters as allegories of intellectual property relations. In movies based on characters owned by the comics duopoly of DC and Marvel, no narrative recurs more often than a villain’s attempt to copy the superhero's unique powers. In this volume, author Ezra Claverie explains this fixation as a symptom of the films’ mode of production. Since the 1930s, the dominant American comics publishers have treated the creations of artists and writers as work for hire, such that stories and characters become company property. Thus, publishers avoided sharing the profits both from magazine sales and from licensing characters into other media. For decades, creators have challenged this regime, demanding either shares of profits or outright ownership of their creations. Now that the duopoly rents, licenses, and adapts superheroes for increasingly expensive franchises, and for growing international audiences, any challenge to intellectual property relations threatens a production regime worth billions of dollars. Duopoly movies, therefore, present any attempt to break the superhero’s monopoly on their powers as the scheme of terrorists, mad scientists, or space Nazis—assuaging studio anxieties and revealing the fears of those who benefit most from the real-world ownership of superheroes. Weaving together legal analysis, Marxist political economy, and close readings of movies, Copyright Vigilantes explains the preoccupations of Hollywood’s leading genre.
Download or read book Vigilantes Beyond Borders written by Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How and why NGOs are increasingly taking independent and direct action in global law enforcement, from human rights to the environment Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have generally served as advocates and service providers, leaving enforcement to states. Now, NGOs are increasingly acting as private police, prosecutors, and intelligence agencies in enforcing international law. NGOs today can be found investigating and gathering evidence; suing and prosecuting governments, companies, and individuals; and even catching lawbreakers red-handed. Examining this trend, Vigilantes beyond Borders considers why some transnational groups have opted to become enforcers of international law regarding such issues as human rights, the environment, and corruption, while others have not. Three factors explain the rise of vigilante enforcement: demand, supply, and competition. Governments commit to more international laws, but do a poor job of policing them, leaving a gap and creating demand. Legal and technological changes make it easier for nonstate actors to supply enforcement, as in the instances of NGOs that have standing to use domestic and international courts, or smaller NGOs that employ satellite imagery, big data analysis, and forensic computing. As the growing number of NGOs vie for limited funding and media attention, smaller, more marginal, groups often adopt radical strategies like enforcement. Looking at the workings of major organizations, including Amnesty International, Greenpeace, and Transparency International, as well as smaller players, such as Global Witness, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, and Bellingcat, Vigilantes beyond Borders explores the causes and consequences of a novel, provocative approach to global governance.
Download or read book Shadow Vigilantes written by Paul H. Robinson and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book examines many examples of how the community has responded when the justice system is perceived to fail."--Book jacket.
Download or read book Christmas Tales written by John Everson and published by John Everson. This book was released on 2011-01-10 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CHRISTMAS TALES includes three short stories celebrating the magic of Christmas. Heartwarming contemporary fantasies all, this collection - which also includes a handful of original holiday song lyrics - will bring the spirit of Christmas to your heart.
Download or read book Joint Libraries written by Claire B. Gunnels and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The joint-use college/public library can be an ideal solution to serving patrons while managing overextended resources, and this illuminating book scrutinizes successes and failures of the joint-use model.
Download or read book The EBay Book written by David Belbin and published by Harriman House Limited. This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: eBay is the world's largest marketplace, and a worldwide phenomenon! Since the first edition of The eBay Book in June 2004, both the number of people using eBay, and the number of amazing stories of their experiences, have continued to grow at an amazing rate.In the last year alone, over 1 million new users signed up to eBay.co.uk, and the total number of users hit the 10 million mark in February 2005. In fact, people in the UK spend more time on eBay than on any other website, making it the most popular brand name on the internet. It has over 3 million items for sale in its auctions at any one time, and among these are every type of collectable and consumer goods imaginable.eBay provides a simple and amazingly effective way for anybody to auction items that they want to sell - whether they are antiques, books, computers, sports equipment, vinyl records, DVDs, clothing, jewellery, celebrity memorabilia or in fact almost anything - and allows potential buyers to browse and bid on this vast catalogue from the comfort of their own homes.In this fully revised and updated edition of The eBay Book, David Belbin, a long time eBayer, explains how eBay.co.uk works, and how to get the most out of it, whether you are a buyer or a seller. He takes you through the key features of the site, step-by-step, advising on the tactics you can employ when bidding and selling, and explains how to minimise the fees you pay and just why your feedback rating is so important. He also explores the best ways to pay for goods and what to do if your transactions go wrong. This hugely readable book also contains a wealth of case studies, which draw on the knowledge and experience of a wide variety of eBayers, eachwith their own view of the eBay phenomenon.For newcomers, this is an indispens
Download or read book Vigilantes and Unauthorized Militia in America written by Charles Doyle and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vigilante group is an armed private group that has taken the law into its own hands or that has the announced potential of doing so. There are quite a number of such organisations in the contemporary United States, and many have members who are said to be anti-government, racist or both. There is a strong history of vigilante activity in the United States that is unique in modern world history. In order to avoid civil disturbances, Congress and a number of state legislatures have passed laws governing the organisation, instruction and activities of private groups assembled to drill with, practice with, or demonstrate the used of firearms or explosives. This is a brief overview of those laws.
Download or read book Vigilante Danger written by Dr. Artika R. Tyner and published by Lerner Digital ™. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A behind-the-headlines look at the continuing fight for Black rights and representation
Download or read book Feign written by Mary E Thompson and published by BluEyed Press. This book was released on 2022-11-18 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy the 3rd book in the steamy BBW romantic suspense series from USA TODAY Bestselling Author Mary E Thompson. No one knows she’s alive. No one except him. Being dead was not as easy as Karli thought it would be. She couldn’t call anyone, use her cards, or go anywhere with a camera. Her face had been on every channel, trying to gather support for finding her killer. A man who killed the wrong woman. A man who would hunt her down and get it right if he knew Karli was still alive. Cade knew the woman in the morgue was not who everyone said she was. He knew her face, every inch of it, and they were wrong. He just had to find her, the other her, and convince her to trust him. When a stranger calls her by name, Karli’s instincts tell her to run. But there’s something about him that pulls her in. Something that gets her to let her guard down. Something that could cost her her life. Forever this time.
Download or read book Wyatt Earp A Vigilante Life written by Andrew C. Isenberg and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of the iconic nineteenth-century law officer separates fact from fiction while exploring Earp's role in creating his own myths, revealing his lesser-known activities as a thief, gambler, and confidence man.
Download or read book FRAMED written by Mary E Thompson and published by BluEyed Press. This book was released on 2022-07-15 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy the 2nd book in the steamy BBW romantic suspense series from USA TODAY Bestselling Author Mary E Thompson. She only had one night with him. Then she had to disappear. Jessica had always been the good girl. She did what she was supposed to do, was kind to others, and always put her job ahead of her personal life. Which was why she was still single at thirty-three, even though she’d been lusting over her boss’s baby brother for years. She finally got a date with him, two to be exact. And then she found her best friend. Dead. Braden thought his firefighter friends were joking when they said his date was on the TV, but they weren’t. Jessica, his Jessica, was wanted for murder? She wouldn’t hurt a soul, especially not her best friend. But she was missing. His calls went straight to voicemail. She hadn’t shown up to work. Innocent people didn’t run. The only way to clear Jessica’s name is to expose whoever set her up. Without resources and with the entire city looking for her. Jessica doesn’t know where to start, but she’s willing to fight to find the truth…and justice.
Download or read book Flee written by Mary E Thompson and published by BluEyed Press. This book was released on 2024-03-08 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy the 7th book in the steamy BBW romantic suspense series from USA TODAY Bestselling Author Mary E Thompson. Becoming an instant billionaire should have made her happy. Instead, it made her a target. Caring for others kept Dawn from falling apart completely. She made mistakes, big ones that took her kids from her. Giving back made her feel like she was doing something right. She never expected to be named in her patient’s will. Especially when she discovers the sweet man she shared all her secrets with had a few of his own. Like he was a billionaire, and left his company, estate, and billions to her instead of his only son. Gage tried to talk his dying client out of the changes to his will. Leaving everything to the beautiful, curvy nurse he barely knew instead of his dangerous, hot-headed son was sure to send the son into a tailspin. Gage wanted to protect Dawn, but he knew his client was capable of making the decision, and had to believe he had a good reason for cutting his son out of the will. Dawn’s life turns upside down when she’s named the heir. She’s being watched. She’s being followed. She’s being stalked. She didn’t ask for the life she was given, or the money. Everyone wants a piece of her. Except the one man she wished she never met. Gage.
Download or read book Fierce written by Mary E Thompson and published by BluEyed Press. This book was released on 2023-03-17 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy the 4th book in the steamy BBW romantic suspense series from USA TODAY Bestselling Author Mary E Thompson. Justice is coming… because she’s bringing it. Mackenzie never wanted anyone else to go through the same hell she went through. Being wrongly accused of murder nearly broke her, but letting someone get away with murder would be worse. She was convinced she knew the truth, until she discovered the woman who was supposed to be dead was very much alive. Holden has been in love with Mackenzie since the day they met. She’s smart and stunning and completely oblivious of his feelings for her. He’s finally ready to ask her out, but she has her other plans. Bringing justice to the city’s most dangerous criminal. And she refuses to let Holden help. Trust doesn’t come easily for Mackenzie, but facing evil alone is not something she can do. Holden has always been kind, and she quickly learns he’s also funny and smart and a damn good kisser. But none of that will help her get justice for the woman on the other end of the phone as she gasps for her last breath. A breath Mackenzie will make sure was not a waste.
Download or read book FURY written by Mary E Thompson and published by BluEyed Press. This book was released on 2022-03-11 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy the 1st book in the steamy BBW romantic suspense series from USA TODAY Bestselling Author Mary E Thompson. She thought their marriage would last forever. That she could count on him to be her partner. She was wrong. Six months ago, Stacey kicked her lying husband out of their bed. They made promises to each other. Promises that didn’t include lonely nights and lonelier days missing the man who slept on the couch. Something had to give. She knew that as sure as she knew her former client’s death was murder. Wray’s nights under the same roof as his wife and sons were numbered. Every time he left, he wondered if she’d change the locks while he was at the fire station. He couldn’t change the past, but he hoped they still had a shot at a future. Until she tells him it’s over. Making a rash decision when she’s emotional is a bad idea, but Stacey never expects it will put her family at risk. Keeping Wray home is the best way to protect their sons, even though he threatens her heart. As for the man who threatens her life, he’ll get exactly what he deserves.
Download or read book FAITH A Steamy Brother s Best Friend Curvy Girl Romantic Suspense written by Mary E Thompson and published by BluEyed Press. This book was released on with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy the final book in the steamy BBW romantic suspense series from USA TODAY Bestselling Author Mary E Thompson. She never planned to go back. He never thought he’d see her again. Not everyone is happy about their reunion. Twelve years was a long time to be a ghost. Nina thought leaving home would alleviate her grief and guilt, but she had no idea the hell she was running toward. Twelve years of trusting a person who would turn on Nina in a heartbeat if she ever pushed back. Staying put wasn’t an option. Not if Nina was ever going to look herself in the mirror again. Zeke never forgave himself for letting his best friend’s little sister sneak away from him that night twelve years ago. Even worse than her leaving was her never coming back. He’d given up hope of finding her, even though he checked the morgue on a regular basis. Until his phone rang and the voice he never thought he’d hear again whispered his name. The only thing Zeke wants to do is protect Nina. But keeping her captive in his home is no better than what she went through for the last twelve years. Nina is determined to end the reign of terror that kept her away from her loved ones. She’s going to need all her strength, and all of Zeke’s, to take down the organization she swore her life to. Even that might not be enough.
Download or read book Fatal written by Mary E Thompson and published by BluEyed Press. This book was released on 2023-07-14 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy the 5th book in the steamy BBW romantic suspense series from USA TODAY Bestselling Author Mary E Thompson. He’ll stop at nothing to keep her safe. Even if it means crossing a line he swore he’d never cross. Raina London thought she’d be safe. She thought her abusive ex would be caught, he’d pay for his laundry list of crimes, and she could move on with her life. But her ex is free. He’s walking the streets, and after he tried to kill her, again, Raina’s not sure she’ll ever close her eyes again without seeing his vicious, evil face. FBI Agent Adam Johnson is damn good at his job. He’s been recognized for his achievements and his record is impeccable. Taking down one lowlife should have been simple, but Adam’s confidence is shaken and he’s not sure he’s the right person for the job. Not when Raina was hurt because he failed to keep her safe. And especially not when he’s falling for her. With her ex getting closer every day, Adam and Raina vanish. If no one knows where they are, no one else is in danger. Pretending to be an ordinary couple is easier than they expected. Sharing secrets, sharing a bed, and sharing themselves has them both letting down their guard. But it only takes one slip for the evil they’re running from to catch up to them.
Download or read book My Hero Academia Vigilantes Vol 14 written by Hideyuki Furuhashi and published by VIZ Media LLC. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nightmare in Naruhata continues as Koichi goes toe-to-toe with Number 6, who has transformed into a horrific predator bent on ending the Crawler’s life! When the situation gets a little too hot to handle, Koichi realizes this may be a job for real heroes. Until they arrive, though, the battle is up to him—with an assist from Knuckleduster! But the evil looming behind Number 6 is still spurring on the vengeful villain, who has yet to unleash his final form... -- VIZ Media
