Clueless Old Media
The speakers are Ira Rubenstein, executive VP of Global Digital Media at Marvel Comics and Dave Roman, a cartoonist and associate editor at Nickelodeon Magazine.
Rubenstein: Those are our characters. How could someone else write another Spider-Man story?
Roman: Because fan fiction is becoming so powerful. I’ve seen the power of fan fiction. Working at Nickelodeon, there are people out there doing ‘Avatar’ comics that are soooooo much better…
Rubenstein: But that’s like saying YouTube is a real entertainment channel. It’s not.
Marvel Comics exec still confused about the Internet » VentureBeat
