#derivative work

[kabo-channel]

【宝石の国】シンシャ

ようやくできた・・・。

[space-carp]

Trying to draw killerAU... This is a first try! The novel was really inspiring with interesting and brilliant story! 🔪✨

[grox]

[deepdreamnights]

Fair MisUse: Mona Lisa

or... Ever heard a JPG sing itself to you?

I have been playing around with Suno a bit, something I will be inflicting upon you all more in the coming weeks, and I found something interesting.

Suno lets you prompt music with symbols.

In the Lyrics box, if you put together strings of symbols and punctuation, the system interprets that into the structure of the music. Not quite sure how, or what symbols link to what notes because I'm absolutely a monkey with a flamethrower when it comes to music, but if I build a faux waveform with punctuation marks and extended ASCII, I get repeatable motifs.

Example from an early test: -_---…--.--

And since that worked, I prompted with this:

I loaded the JPG file into notepad, copied the results, and used them as a lyrics prompt (first 3000 characters at least). I've since found that if I can crunch an image to around 2k I can load the whole image's data into the lyrics block.

For the style prompt, I used a truncated version of the Wikipedia info block on the painting:

Mona Lisa Italian: Gioconda, Monna Lisa da Vinci c. 1503-1517 Oil on poplar panel Lisa del Giocondo 77cm×53cm

(I had to omit the word "Leonardo" from the prompt because there's apparently a musician called that.)

(the same prompt (more or less, had to change some symbols MJ uses for code) run through Midjourney, as a bonus).

Mona Lisa (the Song) and the above image are very obviously in the public domain. Not really sure about the Machine Ghouls' Hunt since technically I did compose it.. but if you wanna use it, go nuts.

Check out the whole DeepDreamNights Robot Band Oeuvre here.

[plague-of-insomnia]

Japanese word of the day: 二次創作

にじそうさく

nijisousaku

“Derivative work,” that is fan art/fic etc

Not to be confused with 同人誌、どうじんし (doujinshi)

[mineornot]

Mine or Not?

[wordspinning]

Anyway I started a substack to motivate myself to clean up a few scenes in TSIU and also post some original stuff so if you're into that feel free to give it a follow <3

[polikarpov-16]

哆啦A夢

ドラえもん

Doraemon

茉莉人生

同人創作

二次創作

漫畫

戲仿

Derivative work

[zoestorm]

My favourite type of interaction is when someone does a derivative creative work based off of someone else's original piece.

Then a member of the audience starts screaming "You're butchering the original piece! You're a monster!"

Only for the author of the original piece to come in and say "Nah, op here, this slaps"

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

hero/villain showdown but one of them has a spontaneous medical emergency and the battle gets put on hold while their archnemesis drives them to Urgent Care

[kabo-channel]

Berrien from "The Demon Butler and the Black Cat"

『悪魔執事と黒い猫』のベリアンさん

[vincent-marie]

Y'all want reassurance that your derivative works are a-okay?

The obnoxiously self-important, self-aggrandizing BBC's SHERLOCK straight-up ripped off Scarecrow's fear toxin schtick for their "reimagining" of "Hound of the Baskervilles." Reminder that this was AFTER Cillian Murphy had made Scarecrow popular among movie-goers outside of the niche Batman & comic book circles.

Seriously, I'd rather see several hobbyists' OCs that they based on their favorite characters, than "critically-acclaimed" mediocre white guys pretend they DIDN'T steal from other works.

[paulgadzikowski]

I'm pretty sure the Organization for Transformative Works lawyers could offer legal opinions contesting that fanfiction is against the law. Among the legal experts' opinons I've seen knocking around in latter decades is that there's no violation of copyright law if there is no profit made (that's why it's against the TOS at AO3 to link to your Patreon or to your Ko-Fi) and if there is no infringement on the copyright owner's market; and that no work is copyright infringement until or unless it is found to be so in a court of law - which is to say, any given individual instance of possible infringement is innocent* until proven guilty.

Also, equating fanfiction to naturally just a step to plagiarism? Really? I've been writing and drawing fanfiction since you were two years old, Mr. Scalzi, how much longer in your expert opinion until I'm going to start misrepresenting the latest Doctor Who and Star Trek episode scripts as my own work? Derivative work (licensed if derived from a work under copyright or not) and plagiarism are wholly different acts, 1) from different intent (diametrically opposed intent really: one's the baring of your soul like any act of creation as well as an expression of passion for the work you're saluting, the other's pure deception no matter what work you're stealing) and 2) also, more importantly, under the law. There are legal, technical definitions of each, demonstrating the difference. Equating them amounts to slander against fanfiction authors and belittlement of the wrong done to plagiarism victims. I used to respect Scalzi. (EDIT Disclaimer: My link is to a writing from 2006. The writing at the 2007 link above doesn't seem to mention plagiarism, and basically restates no-profit-and-no-market-infringement. Perhaps Scalzi learned better, but he's still on thin ice for not seeing a distinction that ought to have been blatantly obvious to a fellow creator.)

I got into it over fanfiction on Twitter once with Scott Kurtz of PVP Online, one of the big names in webcomics (or at least he seemed one while I was drawing AKOTAS; once I stopped reading webcomics regularly, I stopped hearing about Kurtz, unlike others such as, e.g., Foglio and Willis). Kurtz tweeted you won’t look back on a lifetime of writing fanfiction and feel fulfilled. Scott Kurtz was born in 1971. Guess what year I started watching Star Trek and writing fanfiction (for printed, mail-distributed zines). Just guess. I voted "Someone Else" in the poll. I tried over three days to get clear to Kurtz that the reason he's wrong is that with fanfiction the base motivation of the act is the passion** for the characters specifically, which disallows "filing off the serial numbers" from being able to scratch the itch. Appropriately I seemed to convince him of the passion aspect only when I lost my temper. At least according to Twitter Advanced Search when I could still access Twitter, Kurtz never said anything against fanfiction ever again, and apparently deleted everything he said in 2013 that was trying to convince me that my having spent his lifetime writing fanfiction is something which must one day stop having been fulfilling to me.

Scalzi can come sit with Kurtz, watching me drawing my daily comic strips at The Hero of Three Faces, and wait.

*Master of unintentional alliteration!

**I was up an hour past my bedtime writing and revising this before I posted it, and I've been back at it another half hour or so since I got up

Authors Convinced Fanfic is Illegal/Requires Permission

Terry Goodkind: “Copyright law dictates that in order for me to protect my copyright, when I find such things, I must go out and hire lawyers to threaten these people to make them stop, and to sue them if they don’t.”

John Scalzi: “Let's remember one fundamental thing about fanfic: Almost all of it is entirely illegal to begin with. It's the wild and wanton misappropriation of copyrighted material”

Diana Gabaldon: “OK, my position on fan-fic is pretty clear: I think it’s immoral, I know it’s illegal, and it makes me want to barf whenever I’ve inadvertently encountered some of it involving my characters.”

Robin Hobb: “Fan fiction is like any other form of identity theft. It injures the name of the party whose identity is stolen.”

Anne Rice: “I do not allow fan fiction. The characters are copyrighted. It upsets me terribly to even think about fan fiction with my characters. I advise my readers to write your own original stories with your own characters. It is absolutely essential that you respect my wishes.”

Anne McCaffrey: “there can be no adventure/stories set on Pern at all!!!!! That's infringing on my copyright and can bear heavy penalties…indiscriminate usage of our characters, worlds, and concepts on a 'public' media like electronic mail constitute copyright infringement AND, which many fans disregard, is ACTIONABLE!”

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro: “No. Absolutely not. It is also against federal law.”

Lynn Flewelling: “Whether you are writing about Seregil or Fox Mulder or Sherlock Holmes, if you do not have legal permission from the author, their estate, or publisher, then you are violating US copyright law. It is creative piracy. Doesn't matter how many disclaimers you put on, or if you're being paid. It. Is. Illegal.”

Someone Else, elaborated in the notes

[bigskycastle]

knights and wizards for hw

[naturespeaksbypel]

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Stars (Song)

PEL. Up Above Our Moon. (Orbec, France.) Acrylic.

Flitter, flitter butterfly, oh how we love your colour go by, Up above our flowers, sooo high, Like a dance in our sky. Flitter, flitter butterfly, oh how we love your dance go by, Flitter, flitter butterfly, oh how we love our dance go by. And how we love - - - our dance go by.

Flutter little bird, oh how we wonder, what you heard, Up above our trees, sooo high, Like a free spirit in our sky. Flutter, flutter little bird, oh how we wonder, what you heard. Flutter, flutter little bird, oh how we we'd love, just one word. And how we'd love - - - just one word.

Glitter, glitter little stars, oh how we love your songs go by, Up above our stage, sooo high, Like a dream in our sky. Glitter, glitter little stars, oh how we love your songs go by, Glitter, glitter little stars, oh how we love our songs go by. And how we love - - - our songs go by.

Twinkle, twinkle little star, oh how we wonder who you are, Up above our Moon, sooo high, Like a blue opal, in our sky. Twinkle, twinkle little star, oh how we love just who you are, Twinkle, twinkle little star, oh how we love just who we are. And how we love - - - just who we are.

Twinkle, twinkle little star, oh how we wonder what you are, Up above our World, sooo high, Like a diamond in our sky. Twinkle, twinkle little star, oh how we wonder what you are, Twinkle, twinkle little star, oh how we wonder what we are. And how we wonder - - - what we are.

Twinkle, twinkle little star, oh how we wonder where you are, Up above our Earth, sooo high, Like a pink rose in our sky. Twinkle, twinkle little star, oh how beautiful you are, Twinkle, twinkle little star, oh is our home so very far. And is our home - - - so very far.

Twinkle, twinkle little stars, oh how we wonder what you see, Up above our Planet sooo high, Like a million mirrors in our sky. Twinkle, twinkle little stars, we hope you're pleased with what you see, Twinkle, twinkle little stars, we hope we're pleased with what we see. And we hope we're pleased with - - - what we see.

PEL

Nota bene: Song based on Jane Taylor's nursery rhyme "The Star." (https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6DpWAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Rhymes+for+the+nursery+1806&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false).

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