Thursday, January 13, 2011

What Is The Best Epilator

cartoonist? No pension. Oh yeah?

A cartoonist has the right to retire?
If so, how?

The argument is really important, so 'nuff said. My

know the credentials: a degree in Economics, working in the insurance sector, particularly for energy and security for individuals and small businesses, I have a lot of cartoonists, friends, my future wife, Manuela, is a former -a cartoonist (you will see in the future) and a freelance illustrator. These friends and Manuela

would like to know if one day you will never have a pension, and initial investigations have found that it is a quagmire.


had in mind that I have done in more than one five years of frequent visits of professionals: Comics are a category in serious disadvantage in terms of bargaining power.

More and more as a number: dozens, perhaps hundreds, of new authors come from the schools of comics each year.
Many of them are also good, a few of them have a clear idea of \u200b\u200bwhat it means to go it alone. Almost nobody has a legal education, security and economics in general, not even basic, and it is normal and understandable: the real problem is that, working basically separated, do not know, often, to refer to those who have reliable information on these topics .

The Italian publishers are few and small (Bonelli is a unique case, genus and species is in itself), and, on average, are not prepared much in security matters.

And this even before you count the 'allergy' that seem to prove the contracts in writing, thinking, perhaps rightly, perhaps wrongly, to have greater bargaining power on the author.

The trend of recent years, the basic law of demand (of comics, waning) and supply (of designers, high) to pay less and less.
Not to mention, because it is not the topic that interests me now, the long list of cases of partial payments arrived, late, or never arrived.

addition to a much revenue per hour of work modest, which makes him certainly want to pay a lawyer or an accountant to hunt for solutions, the cartoonist also suffers from a problem that is fundamental to determining whether there will be a pension or not: does not know what it is and not knows what it does.

The cartoonist is a craftsman?
The cartoonist is a freelancer?

The cartoonist sells copyright?
The cartoonist sells finished products?

a color, which makes an intermediate part of the work needed between the idea and the press, has a job classified as "intellectual property"?

The issue is not a futile cataloging an entomologist, but creates differences damn concrete in the rights and obligations that the cartoonist has with the IRS, the Social Security and, of course, the editor.

we add also the thorny matter that, in the absence of a written contract, often tend to classify jobs as Co.Co.O., even when the work of the cartoonist is, well, a real job, full time , which requires specific training, not unlike the work of a writer or painter.

add that the Italian legislation on copyright is horribly old and inadequate, and that all collections of laws (not just on copyright) are online are incomplete, not updated, and all unofficial.
The best are updated by companies specialized private, for which you have to pay for updates.


Start a new great mission: to try to figure it out!


In the next episode: What is a board and who is entitled to it?

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