#category is! watermarks!!

[presidential--suite]

The curse of gettyimages

[teethcritter]

this is the second installment in my “lapis wearing ridiculous t-shirts amethyst gave her just bc they make pearl scream” series

[its-tea-time-darling]

↳The Scorch Trials (2015) but I make it about Newteresa. (1/?) // do you see how HE lokks at HER and then looks AWAY and then SHE looks at him and they don’t know the OTHER just looked at them and HRrnnnGHHHHHHHH //

If there's one thing I know about that girl, it's that she can take care of herself.

[nevesmose]

Save me Vulcan XH558 engine howl

Vulcan XH558 engine howl save me

[sgiandubh]

Lallybroch: copyright vs. trademark

An excellent question was asked by our friend @rosfrank in the comments thread to 'The door faces North' post and given the cosmic amount of uninformed bullshit being ventilated for almost ten years in this fandom, I think it's time to answer it once and for all:

Whenever we are informally talking about 'owning the rights to something', I think it's very important to bear in mind a fundamental distinction between two different categories of ownership rights: copyright and trademark.

The copyright is the most familiar one to many of you. It is what you usually find on those annoying and apparently useless first or last pages of all the printed or digital editions on this planet. Something like this:

In the US, copyright issues are regulated by the Copyright Act of 1976, as included in Title 17 of the US Code. The US public authority competent for registering and managing copyright is, as predictable, the US Copyright Office.

Perhaps the most seminal US Supreme Court decision, as far as copyright is concerned, is the 1991 Feist Publications, Inc., v. Rural Telephone Service Co. In it, the Court ruled that mere compilations of information or facts (such as, for example, telephone books) are not protected by copyright, according to US law. In other words, the ancient legal concept of 'sweat of the brow' (which simply means the amount of work required to gather and compile those facts/information) is not enough to qualify a work for copyright protection, if no creative effort is added to enhance its content. This is why I have always considered absolutely ridiculous Marple's efforts to watermark public information screenshots: it is useless (to the extent that it legally protects her from nothing) and, as her timelines, a mere compilation of facts (legally ditto). A similar approach is preferred by the UK and also by many Roman law legal systems, such as the French one - just making things clearer, here, by the way.

See how 'Erself is roughly doing, right now, in this department:

But I am rambling. In my view, Lallybroch, as a pivotal concept used in Diana Gabaldon's books, is protected by the copyright granted to each and every of her books mentioning it, according to the Roman law principle 'accessorium sequitur principale' (the accessory follows the principal). So it will remain protected for at least 70 years since the last of her books mentioning it would have been published under copyright. Unless she chooses to separately protect the entire finished cycle as a whole, once Book Ten (fingers crossed) is published, preferably during our foreseeable lifetimes.

That being said, that goes only for one copyright category: (published) text - you cannot copyright that secret diary in your drawer, LOL. This is why, the current US Copyright Office records concerning Lallybroch look like this:

Sony Pictures Television Inc owns the copyright to the fictional name Lallybroch in the motion pictures category, as it is the title of the Episode 12, in Season 1 - DG has been handsomely compensated for this, no worries. And someone I have no idea about owns the rights to an original musical score she has written and titled Lallybroch in the music category, since October 2013.

Onwards to the trademark. This is something different and this is all about making your name/concept/idea profitable. It is all about branding it, putting it on a product and selling it under that brand. It includes all the graphic elements and the logo of the brand (accessorium...) - in short, its visual identity to the consumers. In the US, trademark issues are regulated by the 1946 Lanham Act and the public competent authority is the good old US Patent and Trade Office (USPTO).

Right now, the situation for the Lallybroch trademark is as follows:

So, we see three different trademarks: two of them, owned by Diana Gabaldon, are classified as 'dead' (cancelled and/or abandoned) and the third, Lallybroch Spirits, owned by S's Great Glen Company is pending approval - he will not be able to label any booze bottle Lallybroch Drink Me before permission is granted by the USPTO.

Let's unpack:

Both Lallybroch trademarks formerly owned by Diana Gabaldon were filed at the USPTO on February 21, 2000 and granted on December 12, 2000. The first was aimed at producing 'tartan fabrics for the manufacturer of clothing' and it was abandoned in December 2003:

The reason is that the owner did not file in any Statement of Use after the trademark was granted. She had three years to do so, and since she chose not to do anything about it, the trademark was deemed abandoned (Stacy K. Smith is the attorney hired by Herself, btw). That means she specifically implied not to intend using it in the future. As such, she may claim NO rights on a now free to use mark:

The second trademark was aimed at producing 'clothing, namely, t-shirts, dresses and headwear' and also 'jewelry, namely, rings, pins and necklaces'- to cut the story short: OL merchandise - and it was cancelled on March 1st, 2013:

The reason is that the owner did not file the Section 8 declaration (of continuous use for five years) within the allowed legal timeframe (6 months after the fifth anniversary of the trademark granting renewal). Her trademark federal rights are now deemed canceled (but not her state law and/or common law rights!) and if she wants to ever use that name again, she would have to start the whole process over, bearing in mind the trademark could have been granted to someone else, in the meanwhile (not her case).

And for anyone who might ask, 'Erself does not own any other trademarks whatsoever:

The other (Doll Lab - LOL for ages) Diana Gabaldon is a pharmacist from Albuquerque, NM. Chill. 🤣🤣🤣

The owner of the copyright to the fictional toponym Lallybroch, as far as published text is concerned, is Diana Galabdon.

The owner of the copyright to the fictional toponym Lallybroch, as far as motion pictures are concerned, is Sony Pictures Television Inc.

The owner of the copyright to the fictional toponym Lallybroch, as a personal work of music, is Mrs. Kelly Ruth Davis, of Pennsylvania, USA.

The owner of the Lallybroch Spirits trademark will be Sam Roland Heughan, when that trademark is granted by the USPTO.

I hope this answers your question, @rosfrank. Thank you for asking.

[ave661]

Hi! I’ve got to say I absolutely adore your art it’s impeccable and always leaves me either blushing or crying (I’ve seen the somewhat sadder or dad!character renders you’ve made and I did cry for no reason but I love them either way)

Anyway, I did read your pinned post but I’m not sure if this falls in your ‘okay’ category. Are you comfortable with us using the newer renders that have “Do Not Repost” on them? I use the old ones but lately it’s seems disrespectful if I do use the new ones because I’m not sure you are okay with me using those. Is it alright if I do use the new ones? Obviously I’ll give you credit, as always, but I want your permission first before I do so.

I hope this makes sense. Anyway, have a great day/night!😊

I've been thinking about changing the pinned post for about a month now and I've been postponing the answer to this question for a while to think it over and I came to the conclusion that I don't want my renders to be reposted in any way. Not only new ones, but also older.

If I could go back in time, I would add a huge "do not repost" watermarks from the very beggining on every render. Back then I didn't know how much some of them would blow up and who would use them in what way. I've never been in a fandom as a creator, so I learn something new with every mistake. Maybe I'm too trusting and for a long time I didn't expect that some people would sell fanart they found on the internet. People trace, sell, use without credits, remove my watermarks, edit with AI. Every new info about someone trying to sell them makes me want to give up and I really, really, really don't want that to happen. It's annoying to waste hours reporting thieves. That's why I started adding bigger and uglier watermarks and also posting less renders here and X. However, I'm still very active on Instagram and TikTok because the download option is disabled there which makes me feel more comfortable. I also post stuff on Patreon.

I love seeing my renders used in creative ways and inspiring you to do something, unfortunately every now and then I see them being used in… not so nice ways. Like adding a sw@stik@ to my Konig render, using my Dad series for pedo fics/bots or nsfw stuff that sometimes makes me a bit uncomfortable. But when I read comments that some people thought I MADE THEM because of the watermarks on them, it makes me… ughhhhh.

It really hurts me to say "no" when many of you are respectful, nice and give me credits, but there are also people who don't care and just want to use them for their own profits, not caring that someone spent long time on them.

There's also the problem with Pinterest. Even though I've never posted anything there, I've noticed that sometimes I see my art with all the info and links to my Tumblr blog. Honestly, I don't know how it works, but I don't want anything of mine there. Every time I see them, I report, but like I said, it wastes time that I could be using to create new stuff. So when someone reposts my renders here, it increases the chances of them getting on Pinterest = more stealing in the future.

Sorry I changed my mind on this, but when I saw HT recently selling my Ghost meme on their t-shirts, and then heard that the company that designed it apparently got approval from act!v!s!0n themselves, I was speechless. I guess "I thought they were official" has reached a new level.

[jessiarts]

Too many people are willfully misunderstanding why artists are protesting AI art right now.

All they hear is "Artists are mad at fun new tool and scared it will replace them, so they're trying to take it away from us!!"

Artists are not protesting the tool itself. Many even like the concept of the AI tools, believe it or not.

We are protesting that it takes and uses our work without our consent and without any compensation, all while the companies behind the tool are making loads of money off this practice.

We're fighting for regulation of the tool. Not only does it scrape work created by artists into it's database without the artist's permission, private medical photos have also been found in these datasets. None of that is ok.

From the start this tool should have only been fed images in the public domain, and any artist work fed to it should have come from artists who have consented to it and who were then also compensated whenever their work was used by the AI tool. There's also other issues like:

Sites like ArtStation and DeviantArt refusing to place AI in it's own category to separate it from human made art. Just like traditional and digital art get separate categories, so should AI generated art. (Also some are trying to hide when they generated something from AI and try to pass it off as done by their own hand??? If you believe it's 'just another tool,' why are you trying to hide it???);

How DA tried to pull a fast one and first made AI scraping an opt-out function and said that dead artists work would be scraped because they weren't alive to tell them no;

How the companies behind the tools are knowingly making money off the AI scraping artist work without artist consent;

People are selling AI art with no regard that their generated image likely contains work that another artist created;

Etc.

"But humans take inspiration from other artists all the time! The AI is just doing the same thing!"

First off, it's not. And I don't even mean that in a "AI art is soulless and can never be the same as Human Art!" way or anything.

I just mean these "AI" tools aren't 'true AI' like how you're thinking. They're no Hal3000 that actually make decisions on their own. They're algorithms programed by humans to search the acquired database and photomash together a product based on a prompt. They're not actually becoming 'inspired' by anything. (And it's not insulting the tool to say this either!)

And that's not even the point, but let's pretend for a just minute that what AI Art programs do is the same as a human taking inspiration- Even humans are not allowed to take too much of another artists idea/work with the intent to profit without getting in trouble. Even if that 'profit' is just internet clicks, people very much still do get mad at other humans for copying another artist's work and trying to pass it off as their own.

And that is what's happening with a lot of generated art. It will spit out pieces very similar or nearly identical to another artist's work and will often even include artist's signatures or watermarks in the product. Because it just photomashes, essentially. (Again, not a dig!)

And I'm not knocking photomashing, it is used in the industry. And I bet most artists are actually fine with the concept of a photomashing tool. However, even when humans in the industry use photomashing, they have to use their own photos, public domain photos, or have permission of the owner to use the photos they intend to photomash with. And we sure as hell are not allowed to use someone's private medical photos in our work either.

We're only asking that the work generated by AI Art programs follow these same standards. Again, we're only fighting for regulation, not to take this "new fun tool" from you.

But unfortunately that's all some who are already enamored with the idea of AI Art are willing to hear from our arguments.

It's easier to just believe that artists are simply "afraid of change" or "afraid of being obsolete" and are trying to rain on your fun than to look at our arguments and concede that, "Hey, maybe this tool was implemented in a bad way. Maybe artists do deserve the basic respect of being allowed to consent to their work being used to train AI, and to being compensated by the company behind the tool if their work is used. Maybe we should look into more ethical ways of implementing this new tool."

No one seems to realize that artists would not be fighting this tool if it was done right from the start and didn't just outright take our work to train the AI without our permission. Hell, artists release stuff to help teach/'train' other human artists all the time! We release full tutorials, stock images, even post finished art for people to use for free sometimes!

The difference is that when we do, we consented to do so. It wasn't just ripped from our hands by people who felt entitled to our labor for their own gain.

We're not trying to take away your fun new tools! We're only asking that your new tool does not come at the expense of abusing us!

I really don't think that's a hard ask.

[lady-sapphyre]

Art is a commission by the lovely @/lonelymagpies on Twitter (hence my different username in the watermark)

DIVINE FOLLIES:

Rating: explicit

Categories: F/M

Relationship: God!Gale/(named)Tav

Words: 26,771

𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘮 𝘵𝘰 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘨𝘰𝘥?

Four decades hence his divine ascension, the God of Ambition hungered still. Hungered for power, for glory, for worship— and for love.

Scorned by his love, a mere mortal, a slight which the mind does not forget easily, he jumps at the chance to rekindle their love affair and bring her to the heavens.

The only way they can be together still... Or is it?

Aka. Tav [redacts] the godhood out of Gale, but also God!Gale character study

[rubyfunkey]

COMMISSIONS UPDATED 7/29/24 :]

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If you'd like to commission something that doesn't fall into these categories (or if you have a question about pricing) please feel free to contact me and we can figure it out!

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Sharing and posting the final product with credit is okay, though removal of any signature/watermark is not

I will keep in contact and provide sketches if necessary to ensure that the desired product is being achieved, and if it is not necessary then an ETA for the final product will be provided and updated if changed.

WILL DO: humanoid, anthro, critters and creatures, fanart, original characters, light gore, light NSFW (nudity, pin-ups, sloppy make-outs, etc.)

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[stestylius-arts]

TWST OC Assets Post.

Updated on April 6th 2023

Hello fellow Twisted Wonderland Fan, 

If you are reading this it’s because you have taken interest here.

Please, read carefully this little note; 

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This content is for the creation of original characters of Twisted Wonderland.

Do not delete the watermark below each page.

Don’t forget to tag my source, my alias if it is used.

More content will be created when I have free time.

Consider encouraging the real artist of the series for Twisted Wonderland.

The content has been made in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.

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[prosperdemeter2]

Teaser Tuesday - watermark

“I don’t really know if I’m going to see them again.”

“How long are they staying?”

“A few weeks.” Buck rubbed at the tattoo on the inside of his forearm. “Maddie said they want to have family dinner on fridays. Like we used to do before she moved out.”

They used to do a lot of things before Maddie moved out. They had stopped doing most of them when she left, replaced them with cold, dark nights and a lingering anxiety of what version of his parents were going to greet him. “Would you be able to get out of the obligation of going?”

“Probably not.” That wasn’t true. Buck could get out of the obligation very easily. He had a built in excuse - he really only had to ask Bobby to put him on call for the next week and he’d wrinkle his brow at him but do it without much prodding. Eddie would probably be a happy excuse. But not showing up wouldn’t only put Maddie in the potential warpath of their perpetually changing parents, but it would give them an excuse to show up at the 118. To blow up whatever life Buck had carved out for himself with reckless abandon.

“Is that because, in order to get out of the obligation, you’d have to tell Maddie what you’ve been avoiding for a long time?”

Damn.

It was like being caught with Eddie all over again, only Eddie would have been a lot more blunt about it from the beginning. It wasn’t that he didn’t understand, and that he didn’t sympathize with Buck’s worry about telling Maddie at all, but that he didn’t… well, Eddie had made it known that Buck was his priority and Maddie wasn’t. He cared about her, and he didn’t want her to hurt, but ten out of ten times Eddie would choose to cause Maddie pain to save Buck from having to endure more. Amy held out her hands in silent invitation. “You don’t have to answer.” She said after a moment of Buck biting his own tongue. “I know the relationship with you and Maddie is important to you.”

“She wouldn’t believe me.”

“What makes you say that?” Amy tilted her head as she asked.

Her nails were painted bright yellow, a contrast to her graying hair.

Buck gave her a look and Amy frowned in response. “Has Maddie often not believed you when you’ve told her things?”

“We don’t talk about…” Buck waved his hand in the air. They didn’t talk about a lot of things. They didn’t talk about their childhoods or Doug or Daniel. Why should this be any different?

“You’ve wanted to talk to her about things, though.” Amy was always the person to gently bring up things Buck had previously admitted to whenever he ended up contradicting himself. “You want to talk to her. You’ve just expressed that you don’t know how to talk to her.”

“I was talking about Daniel, not about… this.”

“So this doesn’t fall into the same category?”

“No.”

“Then what category does it fall into?” Amy paused. Gave him a moment to consider his options. “Buck, I want you to think about this, okay? You don’t have to give me an answer at all.”

“It’s not…” It’s not that easy, Buck had told Eddie when he had asked him why Maddie didn’t know. On paper, Maddie would care, and perhaps he was being too cruel to her to imply that she wouldn’t in action but… Maddie had left, like everyone always left, and he really didn’t want to be the one pushing her away this time. She was fragile, and pregnant, and Buck was clumsy and prone to accidents and known to hurt others without really thinking about things.

“What makes telling Maddie so different from telling Eddie?”

“Eddie won’t leave.” Buck answered with an easy shrug and then flushed at the realization about what had just left escaped his mouth, no matter how true it was. “Not that… that’s not what I meant.”

@wildlife4life because you always tag me and I feel low-key horrible that I don't always have something new to share 😅 (not in a bad way, please, don't ever stop)

[chickadooz]

I've revamped my Bird Guy distribution by adding them to my shop instead!

Previously you would have to tip me any amount and I'd draw and send you a guy via Ko-fi message. Now, there's a handful of them in my shop that you can buy and claim for yourself! There's only one of each available, so once they're gone they're never coming back. And whoever buys them gets to be the sole owner (no affiliation with NFTs of course)! Naturally the image you buy is not watermarked.

Of course this is all in good fun, and not meant to be taken too seriously as me Selling Art or anything. I'm quite awful at drawing actually, but people seem to like the goofy way I draw things on my phone.

Anyway, you can find their shop category here. If they all sell out I'll make more. Please consider checking them out, since I really need the money right now.

And maybe continue to browse my shop for other things?

[ostdrossel]

Hi, I really enjoy all your videos. Can I ask how you edit them? My videos seem to lose a lot of quality when I upload them here, no matter what settings I choose.

Your setup is very impressive. How do you keep track of all your cameras and files? Maybe you can tell me about your workflow if it's not too much work. Have a great day und viele Grüße aus Deutschland.

Hi, danke :) I use CapCut (free edition) and sometimes Shotcut for editing. The original video should be of decent quality so that rendering or posting on socials will not diminish quality too much. I am usually posting here from my computer, it could be that posting from the phone reduces quality, no idea.

I work with different setups. My regular photo setup and the trailcam I use with micro SD cards that I have to retrieve and go through the files and then decide which ones to keep and which to delete from the card. That is the process that takes most of my time, so I do it daily (which is why I am not posting my regular photos right now, I do not have the energy to go through 2 x 25k photos right now). The keepers I save on a harddrive. I always keep the original of all the keeper files - also so that I can provide photos in original or larger resolution than I post online or for things like publications without the watermark.

The Birdsy cam videos are saved in my Birdsy account for eternity if I favorite them, and sometimes I just favorite things to keep for later use or make them public on the Birdsy platform. Once I am ready to edit and post something, I download the video, save it in my harddrive as original and then the edited version.

The Birdfy cams save "moments" in the app, and I go through them as they happen and download what I think may be fun to share, edit and post them.

The nestbox videos I download daily from the Wyze app. I upload them to my Later account via the app, so I can download them to my computer for editing and posting. When a file is too big, like a timelapse, I use wetransfer to get it into the computer.

I prefer to write my posts on the computer and share them on the socials with the help of Later, so I don't have to do it over and over for every account. I keep my files on several harddrives and hope that they never crash. I do not have the money to keep them on a cloud (and I am not trusting clouds completely either).

On the harddrive I have folders for each camera and then subfolders for the days and any other category that may need a subfolder.

Schönen Tag auch dir und liebe Grüße nach Deutschland!

[damnfandomproblems]

Fandom Problem #5676:

My fandom is in the nutshell: Excessive Copyright Condescension.

Hypocritically, the fandom sometimes omit the authors or the license of the images they uploaded. And sometimes they use "watermarked" stock images that are sold for a fee without permission. I don't like them because they seem to think the ALL free-images are in the "public domain" category.

They only use them and don't upload the results of one of their arguments, "Make ur own images/songs/games yourself! :)"

To put it simply, they know websites where they can download "copyright-free-images", but they don't use Wikimedia Commons and don't know the Creative Commons licenses or similar ones.

[neoswift]

wake me. [01]

PAIRING. mark lee x fem!reader

CATEGORY. filo mini smau, fluff, crack, band au, bandmate!mark, guitarist!mark

WARNINGS. language

SUMMARY. moments with your bandmate na crush mong si mark lee.

part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | part 4 | part 5

NOTE. mark lee brainrot malala 👍🏼 quick background pala: their band is called "over the moon", 5-member band na nabuo nung college sila. they've been active for five years na and medyo sikat na rin sila (and people really want markyn together) thats all thank yewwww!!

there’s also a playlist for this mini smau nasa dulo! enjoy!!!!!

pls sorry for the huge ass watermark sa gitna naiinis na kasi ako sa nagrerepost ng aus ko pls lang pag ninakaw pa to ewan ko na lang HAHAHAHA

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