The Daily Comics Review is Dead, Long Live The DCR!

Hello Daily Comics Review Devotees!
I write to you with a heavy heart.  If you haven't noticed already, all of the pictures from every review over the last four years is gone.  We had been hosting our pictures on Photobucket on a Pro account, but we received a notice last week that 3 of our pictures had been removed for copyright infringement, and then our account was permamnently banned several days later.  I have been in contact with Photobucket to try to find some other solution, but they haven't responded to my emails for over three days now.  For all intents and purposes, The DCR is dead.

What was our action that was so offensive to warrant such destruction?  Our infringement notice came from Paws Inc., which if you don't recognize is the corporation that controls Garfield and Jim Davis' other creations.  We probably should have been more cautious about posting his work, as he has a reputation (or at least Paws Inc does) for extreme heavy handedness with his properties on the internet.  I try not to live my life in fear of retribution though, so I never put those restrictions on my writers.  My basic understanding of copyright laws had me thinking our posting were covered under fair-use, but Photobucket and Paws Inc. seem to disagree.

So, where do we go from here?  My amazing writers still plan to continue on, undaunted by their archive of work being obliterated, but I have to admit extreme heartbreak over the loss of all this content.  I operated the DCR alone for almost a year before adding new writers, and though I have been less publicly involved lately  I still feel very connected to what happens here.  So I am here to ask you fans, what do you think we should do?  We are looking in to independently hosting or finding another company that would work with us instead of just banning us if there are any future issues.  We have some ad revenue saved up but would probably need additional dollars.  So if you love the DCR and want to see it survive, now is the time to speak up.  If you feel so inclined we do have a Paypal donation button and all monies collected go directly toward this site.

Finally, thank you to my writers and my readers for the last 4 years.  I started this blog because I loved comics and my job as so boring that I had time to run a blog from work any nobdoy would notice.  As my career has become more demanding I've reached a point where I hardly have time to read any comics, but I always check out the latest update here.  It's been a great 4 years, lets see what the future has in hold for us!