Comments on: DJ Coffman — more Platinum woes

by: Babs

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:58:24 +0000

I have started following this very recently with the new info from the Wowio/Platinum merger. It’s like the sixties era of recording contracts. Creative cool people getting screwed over by money grubbers…

And then the attorneys rubbing their hands together and looking down like circling vultures. Geh.

HAtes this stuff.

by: Susie

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:31:48 +0000

I’ve been watching this Platinum/Coffman thing for some time and I think the man has been working real hard to be a straight-shooter and that’s really hard to do.

I think the domain is a separate issue from the IP. He can take down all of the material and not promote it as the site for “Hero by Night”, but he can just as easily hand over the domain to an organization that helps runaways or something and it’d be his right.

I understand that it’s a matter of wanting to maintain a pleasant relationship. But since Platinum has been publicly strong-arming Coffman of late, there’s no reason to be overly solicitous. It appears to be less than mutual.

He’s been playing fair, but he shouldn’t have to roll over.

by: Alan Coil

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:17:27 +0000

DJ shouldn’t turn the sites over to them without cash compensation. He paid for them, he created them, he maintained them. He should get paid for his work.

by: James Van Hise

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:02:01 +0000

Interesting. They’re 15 million dollars in debt but are wasting time doing this. While they may just fold up, they might also do something a company I once worked for did. One day they were operating under one name, but the next day the letterheads changed and they were operating under a different name, and creditors for the old company were out of luck because they had another previously unused corporation set up and waiting in the wings which they just turned themselves into, something they’d clearly planned on for a couple years because it takes time to create a new corporation.

by: not cotton

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:52:47 +0000

No. THey dont.

by: Al Nickerson

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:43:14 +0000

This is kinda pathetic. Doesn’t Platinum Studios have anything better to do then continue to kick Coffman in the nuts?