#lawsuit in the making

[lchufflepuffcorn]

I’m sorry…

Are people really buying fanfiction of copyrighted works because the covers are aesthetic?

Let’s take a look on the definition of copyright, since so many people seems to not be fucking aware of it :

“A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives the creator of an original work, or another right holder, the exclusive and legally secured right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work, usually for a limited time. The creative work may be in a literary, artistic, educational, or musical form. Copyright is intended to protect the original expression of an idea in the form of a creative work, but not the idea itself. A copyright is subject to limitations based on public interest considerations, such as the fair use doctrine in the United States.

Some jurisdictions require "fixing" copyrighted works in a tangible form. It is often shared among multiple authors, each of whom holds a set of rights to use or license the work, and who are commonly referred to as rights holders. These rights normally include reproduction, control over derivative works, distribution, public performance, and moral rights such as attribution.

Copyrights can be granted by public law and are in that case considered "territorial rights". This means that copyrights granted by the law of a certain state do not extend beyond the territory of that specific jurisdiction. Copyrights of this type vary by country; many countries, and sometimes a large group of countries, have made agreements with other countries on procedures applicable when works "cross" national borders or national rights are inconsistent.

Typically, the public law duration of a copyright expires 50 to 100 years after the creator dies, depending on the jurisdiction. Some countries require certain copyright formalities to establishing copyright, others recognize copyright in any completed work, without a formal registration. When the copyright of a work expires, it enters the public domain.”

-Wikipedia (29/02/2024).

(Link here)

So, again. Do NOT sell fanfiction anyFUCKINGwhere. And yes. The swearing is important, it doesn’t even BEGIN to express the pure bafflement I had when I started to have videos on my TikTok about this exact thing.

What are people thinking ?? There aren’t enough videos about bookbinding 101 to your taste? You HAVE money for an ILLEGAL copy of an “ILLEGAL” piece of writing, mostly socially accepted because people don’t charge for it? So, I’m guessing you have money to buy the products you need to book-fucking-bind YOURSELF!!

What. The. Fuck.

People are becoming way too comfortable with fanfiction, this is crazy. Have we learned nothing since the Anne Rice vs. Fanfiction ? Or, and despite her flaws, the J.K. Rowling vs. Dimitri Yemets lawsuit?

And I know, I know, that laws change depending on the country, the state, provinces, etc, but still, people. Have some restraint.

“In addition, fanfiction may be legal in the UK following passage into law of an exception to copyright for the purpose of caricature, parody, or pastiche.”

-Wikipedia 29/02/2024

(Link here)

‘But the author of the fanfic and/or the creator of the art gave me permission…’ I don’t fucking care! Hell, I don’t want to hear it. They should NOT by the ones giving you the rights to SELL materials that are not copyrighted TO THEM.

Maybe you have lawsuit money, doesn’t mean that the actual authors of the fanfiction that you are selling do! And it’s not actually you who you’re getting in trouble by selling things. Hell. It’s one of the laziest scam I’ve ever seen. Yes. Some of the covers might be really beautiful, but ultimately, they are making profit out of something that are not theirs to make profit about.

“But I really want to have one and don’t have the talent…” then either learn or make really good friends with someone who is talented for it enough for them to GIFT you a bookbinded copy.

This is not only making the lives of those fanfiction writers whose work you stole difficult, plus having the chance (negative connotation) of maybe being sued for the selling they most probably didn’t do themselves. But you’re also ruining the experience of thousands of reader all around the globe as writers are pulling their work out of the sites because of that.

Seriously, learn to think about the big picture and stop only thinking of only yourself. Self-care should stops when you’re starting to hurt others while doing it.

I’m leaving here various post to educate yourself further on the matter, or just to feed your curiosity, plus videos of Tiktoker that graced my FYpage all this week.

[nashvillethotchicken]

If we really think about it, this all started with megan dropping Hiss. Hiss was never a Nicki diss, it was a drake/those who've been capping for Mr. Peterson diss first and foremost. Nicki made it about her The only line that could have gone to nicki was the Megan's line bar and she showed her whole ass on that one, but every other bar applied to drake , who'd been dissing megan for years and going up for Tory once he found out he shot her.

Like all of these are about Drake, especially the bbl and cosplay gangster stuff. She was the first person to wack drake for his botched body and his allegiance to the corny culture vulture community. You notice how every other diss to drake has been mentioning what megan said in hiss? She really threw the first diss at drakewall like please give her her flowers

[blueskittlesart]

i hope everyone in nintendo’s management department dies and goes to hell no matter what and i’m not kidding

[teshiee]

hi yes it's Agent Walker and Agent Smith yet again..!! continuation to this post. i cant come up with anything new LOL

Aaand before i make myself think i mischaracterised my fav characters again, i'll point out that Agent Smith doesn't really do Agent Walker's paperwork all by himself. He actually gives most of it to his department's employees. Why is he like this.

...another thing i forgot to point out in the last post prequeling this one, Agent Walker's videogames got confiscated and won't be returned until he finishes his current paperwork!! (They found out he was making his employees do his paperwork. like Agent Smith over here...)

+ the last image text says, *(Agent Walker) doesn't notice the slight reduction in paperwork nor the fact that it's TIDIED because he's too woozy

[lover-of-mine]

[exhuastedpigeon]

Buck when Eddie can’t hang out because he’s got plans with his girlfriend: Bummer man! We can hang out after our next shift then.

Buck when Eddie can’t hang out because he made friends with a hot, older firefighter with access to a helicopter: OH I SEE. I guess he hates me. Our friendship must have meant nothing to him. He’s going to leave the 118 and leave me and I’m going to be all alone forever. I guess I should try to ruin the friendship subconsciously by being a petty asshole.

[courtmartialme]

Riza nesting,,,,,, I’d love to hear ur thoughts about it, like her habits and whatnot

when her heat is coming up she starts going around ordering and re-ordering her place and dusting shelves that are already perfectly clean but if roy mentions that she's nesting she'll say she's just cleaning!!!😤 until before she even realizes it her pillows and blankets are all gathered in a single place

before royai got together riza only had a shirt roy lent her during her first heat when he was still studying at hawkeye manor that she never retrieved. it doesn't even have his scent anymore but she's attached... but after that she shamelessly gets anything from him she can get her hands on :]

it takes her a while to let roy into her nest because she's still embarrassed of him seeing her like that, still gradually accepting the omega tendencies she tried to deny for so long. but pre heat makes her a little clingy so it doesn't take long until roy is allowed in because having him close and still being scared is more frustrating than having him away

[effemimaniac]

remember when software EULAs had "I don't agree" pre-checked so that you consciously had to check the other box? remember when microsoft settled an antitrust lawsuit merely for integrating internet explorer into the operating system, and this was argued to be an unfair business practice? now the "I agree" button is highlighted and you have to put on your reading glasses to find the other option, or back out entirely. now when you try to set your default browser as something else, microsoft will nag you not to, arguing that it knows better that its browser (which you can't uninstall, btw) is the best for windows. how did shit get so much worse so quickly.

[crumblinggothicarchitecture]

Taylor Swift: The Lyric Thief- Evermore Edition.

Do y'all know about this?

Swift's lyric "How's one to know/ I'd meet you where the spirit meets the bone" ("Ivy" 2020).

Great, interesting lyric from Swift's own mind, right? WRONG.

Originally, it came from a poem called "Compassion" written by Miller Williams in 1997.

Here is the poem:

Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don’t want it. What seems conceit, bad manners, or cynicism is always a sign of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone. (Williams, 1997)

It's later used as an album title "Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone" that Miller William's daughter, Lucinda Williams, published in 2014.

She also used the line, that her father ORGINALLY wrote, in a song tribute to him called "Compassion" on that same 2014 album.

Can we please stop pretending Swift is a genius? When, in fact, all of her most "intelligent" and "powerful" lyrics are lines outright taken from other works in literary, and musical, canon.

She's just a derivative fraud who wants all of her fans to think she's the one coming up with all these ideas.

She stole the line from a woman who used it as a tribute to her dying Father- the original author- who is now passed.

Not only did Swift rip the line out of a tribute album written to the original writer- but she also put the line in a dumb song that romanticizes cheating. She writes, "dare to sit a watch what we'll become/ and drink my husband's wine" ("Ivy" 2020). Clearly, the whole song is about a woman who is cheating on her husband.

The original intention of the line itself is about having compassion for other people, while taking care to have humility and resist the allure of cynicism. It's a poem about caring for your fellow man- and resisting despair in life. Arguably, it is also a poem about mental health issues and respecting those who may struggle. Swift twists the line to describe meeting a clandestine hookup and cheating on her husband.

Not only did she yank the line right out of someone else’s work, with no credit given to the original intention of the line or the original author- but she also made it about such a selfish, sick, thing to do- cheating on a spouse.

The original intention of the line was so kind and empathetic. She ruined it with her endorsement of cavalier attitudes towards moral corruption :(

[elodieunderglass]

Hey. If you’d like to read the regularly updated countryside adventures of an artist/poet, her quirky interactions and multilingual puns, her foraged foods and sweet nomadic life, seasoned and salted with a mechanic’s rich life experience - do go and spend time with my friend Dru.

Notably, Dru is not and will never be a TERF. In fact, there is a book on the shelves of your local bookstore all about why.

[phantoms-world-and-more]

Amity park/ ghost zone vs Justiase league legal case

AMITY PARK

they sew the justice leagues for negligence, they tried to say they didn't get any information about the attacks, one look at the phone records and emails show how wrong they were

They also showed how they put any calls/email from amity park in the spam folder

Intent to harm, the people of amity park said that they said they would get rid of them. No context.

They use that to question the ethical implications of the JL

The JL try to use anything against amity park and fail every time

The trial is broadcasted because people thought it was just a crazy town, then they watched the legal case and saw how the JL are in the wrong and start questioning them

The JL though it couldnt get worse, then they brought in the ghosts

The ghost admit to what they did but they also explain what an obsession was

The JL is double fucked because they didnt ask about the ghosts, they just said they would get rid of them

Then 5 teenagers come to the stand

Jasmine fenton, Daniel fenton, samantha mason, tucker foley and Valerie grey

They talk about how these 5 teenagers had to step up as vigilantes to protect their town

The whole world is pissed off now

The YJ team are pissed they're "too young" but 4, 14 year olds protected an intire town on make shift wepons from their lab, and 1 17 year old

The JL are so stressed it affecting their civilian lives

GHOST ZONE

The ghosts sue them on behalf of the GIW

Imagine their suprise when all the illegal activities come out

Experment, tax fraud, unethical practices,

The world sees this and has lost faith in the legal system

They try to play the self defence card but once obsessions come into play there screwed

Half of the league is pissed the GIW and their "research" exist

The other half are having an extustenchial crisis

Then they see phantom

The same phantom the GIW have been saying in a dangerous and evil entity with no emotions

The JL are so stressed they dont even try to fight this one

The world collectively is against the government now

It dosent help that the GIW try and attack all the ghosts whenever they see them, even the kid ones Like youngblood, cydny, phantom, cujo

[samijey]

naaaah can we talk about how cute jey is making sure his bf a disappointed sami gets cheered by the crowd so he remembers how loved he is after losing them the match oh i'm a mess 🤧🤧 [x]

[lover-of-mine]

Buck and Buck Begins explaining the chain of events that led to the lawsuit.

[bunisher]

yeah i do think it’s interesting how the guy who plays a character who kills abusers had one on his podcast and then was like hehehe frankcastlecore Bro The Character You Play Would Shoot You Too

[fedoraspooky]

I truly hope the rumors of tumblr selling its user's artwork and other images to midjourney aren't real, because I am extremely tired of having to uproot and move around on the internet and still haven't fully recovered from the old dA-to-tumblr exodus... But juuuust in case a deal like that does go through, I'mma just leave this linktree post here. Just, y'know, for reasons.

The worst part is, you can't even delete or go back and edit your posts to opt out if this happens, because reblogs are unaffected. If anyone has ever reblogged your work there will be no way to opt out of this unless we can get a class action suit for tumblr going, or I guess report our own artwork and hope they nuke it themselves.

Just... Really didn't fuckin need this. Tumblr has been my internet home since 2011. I may not have a lot of followers, but I've made a lot of friends here over the years, and i don't wanna start all over from scratch AGAIN because some pissbaby CEO decided to have a transphobic breakdown and sell out all of the site's artists to theft machine robber barons for a shiny nickel.

I'm hesitant to post on insta too because zuck's vacuuming up everything for his AI too. Same with musk. Like, where the hell can we even go now?

All I can think of rn is just... Bluesky, cohost, sheezyart (which is as of this post still in closed beta), and newgrounds. There's furaffinity and stuff too but idk if I draw enough furries to be on a furry site, y'know? Idk, maybe my werecreature and nonhuman character stuff counts but just ughhh if we gotta move, can we all just agree on a place and move together and not scatter to the winds again? That would be great.

[ihatebiden]

see the thing abt taylor swift stalking private jet lawsuit is that i thought she loaned her private jet to other people which is why her carbon emissions were so high. so how could a twt bot using public data to document the goings of her jet even help a potential stalker trying to find her location?? its not like that account publishes who is aboard. unless she lied to save face and everytime that dumbass jet flies shes on it 🤨🤨