But what about the originals they sell?  From what I've heard, they have many certifiable originals in stock.

Ive bought from them, but only originals, my taste isnt really what people would make fakes of any usually, I have had no problem with them, except a few where REALLY over graded, however when I talked to them, the refunded straight a way and let me keep the poster/s
Id think of them as a supermarket, rather than someone who knows and cares. They are cheap, and just churn it out.
You can go to a local Gourmet Deli or go to (dont know american supermarkets names) Coles.
One you get quality, the other, is cheaper, and mayby lower quality.
make your choice, moviegoods, and I havent bought from them in years, dont care, sell mainly low grade posters, and low grade repsos, (I hear they are fuzzy)  but I dont think they are crooks.
I dont like Macdonalds so I dont go there,
if they steal images from, a site, and reprint, well, you took a picture of a poster you don't own the copywrite for, it may be a grey area, but really, we all know what the deal is with selling posters, or second hand books or whatever, Moviegoods always (as far as I know) describe when its a repro, they may be bad at packing, and grading, but its as I said a fast food joint, its cheap, fast and easy, and usually tastes like shit,

This cracked me up. High 5.

(High-fiving Carson from across the country.  In my geekish way.)


As for Moviegoods taking images, the difference between Moviegoods copying images and our copying poster pics is that we do it to show others what we're talking about or to pass on information. As I understand the law in this area (Holiday would know more about this) the use of images in the public domain is allowable when it isn't being sold or used to make money by anyone who isn't the owner.  Even though Moviegoods does sell some originals and does label prints as "prints" on their website, when they actually send out the posters to you, what they send isn't always the original you ordered and if you don't know the difference or if you're new to the hobby, you won't know what you're getting.  Plus, to the new collector, "prints" and the several other euphemisms used for something that's not original doesn't mean anything if you have no idea that poster reproductions/reprints actually exist.

Moviegoods tried to bamboozle me twice and I caught them in it.  Once is an accident.  Twice is a pattern.  Imagine the new poster collector who doesn't have an inkling what ZigZag is, or what a "print" is, or what a reprint is or what any of the pitfalls in this crazy poster world are.


Jeannie


[Hey, that was supposed to be an animated gif!   Why isn't it animating?!]

Thanks, Steve.  But now the image that's shown is just one big mean black square that reads:  "Visit Creepygif.com to view this GIF animation".   And when you go there, it's the same big mean black square.  How rude of them.



Jeannie

  ----->>>  Steve.



Thanks for fixing this gif!  I can't get enough of it.  Tina Fey cracks me up every time.


Jeannie

Disney and Fox have sued MovieGoods and its officers for copyright infringement of their posters.  Attached are the Complaint and Answer.  They're fairly legalistic.  The interesting part of the Answer is the laundry list of affirmative defenses that the defendants assert.  Apparently they don't have any licensing agreement to print or sell these.  

The parties have a mandatory settlement conference soon before a lower-level("magistrate") judge, which is routine in federal courts.

Here's the Joint Report to the Court in the MovieGoods case.  No huge news but this report boils down the legal issues and positions of the parties:

apparently, they laid off over half their staff since last week.

How did you hear that?   I checked the case docket and nothing critical has happened. Discovery ends in September and trial is set for December 14.  However, I can't imagine they can afford a fight against Disney, especially when they have no viable defenses.

The Canada branch or Vegas? I think if they would have left everything in Canada this lawsuit would have never happened, an international copyright battle would be a tough one.

Moviegoods' Better Business Bureau Rating: F

That's great news.  Now if Sony, WB, Universal and Paramount would follow suit, it would once and for all kill and bury Moviegoods like a cockroach.  One can only hope.

T

Old topic, new development.

Looks like MovieGoods has dropped all of its reprints and seemingly gone legit.

Selling very few 27x40s and most are labeled "reproductions."

Mostly selling photos and 11x17 posters nowadaways.

I wonder if they're in financial trouble....