#property of...

[spilladabalia]

Property Of, ''property of '', 1979, Manchester, Object Music

[regalityandcoffee]

Fuck, why is that kind of hot

[prokopetz]

It's true that there's no practicable way to frame "style theft" as an intellectual property issue that wouldn't have horrifying consequences for independent artist, but that doesn't mean we can't have sympathy for all the artists who've spent their lives perfecting the craft of drawing moist-lipped, glassy-eyed, vaguely oily-looking anime girls in three-quarter profile and now everybody thinks they're a robot.

[communistkenobi]

whenever right wing people talk about “parental rights” they are talking about property rights. they are arguing for further political and legal enshrinement of their children as their literal actual property

[battlecrazed-axe-mage]

Not "I can fix him (romantic)" or even "I can fix him (platonic)" but "I can fix him (with an air of soul-deep weariness, taking on a great burden)"

[possessedpasm]

"Television: it never lies. It never dies. AND IT KNOWS EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW."

[Retro commission for @modmad ]

You can read the comic here!

[cymballips]

mr toolkit

[hellerjackline]

[animatedglittergraphics-n-more]

requested by anon

snoopy cursor source

[girlblocker]

i was like this post looks familiar and then realized it was plagiarized word for word from a year-old post by one of my mutuals

[gracefuldisasters]

You CANNOT make a Maria is alive AU and not share the dynamic she may have with Dr. Eggman! Can we see that please?! I feel like he'd be very casual with her when he's not being evil and all that!

I'm now realizing that there's actually not a lot of Maria here. Oops.

It's the Robotnik family!

[prokopetz]

Mickey Mouse's entry into the public domain comes with significant caveats. While the Mickey Mouse who appears in Steamboat Willie (and other media published in 1928 or earlier) is free to use, there's established precedent that specific elements of a character which appear exclusively in later works which still fall under copyright may be protected, if sufficiently distinctive.

(This is the basis of, e.g., the infamous "Sherlock Holmes can't respect women" lawsuit: the Doyle estate, which at the time owned only a tiny handful of the latest-written stories, the others having already fallen into the public domain, argued that specific personality traits which Holmes exhibits only in those later stories are sufficiently distinctive as to be the valid subject of an infringement claim.)

With respect to various elements of Mickey's visual design, such as his red shorts and signature gloves, the matter is clear: just don't use those for another few years. However, there's another thing Mickey's public domain iterations don't exhibit: speech.

The present consensus among copyright scholars seems to be that "a character speaking" is not sufficiently distinctive as to qualify for protection, but the vocal characterisation with which Mickey Mouse is famously associated may so qualify. So, if you want to be scrupulously safe, you can have him talk, but not in that exact specific voice.

Which raises a fun question: what voice would you give him? Wrong answers only.

[tiggerriot]

this is genuinely my favorite ghost i’ve ever sketched i come back and just look at him every once in a while like :)

[vamprisms]

they just don't put gargoyles on roofs like they used to. buildings are so swagless these days

[terriblerealestateagentphotos]

For emergency evacuations please use the stairs.

[snippit-crickit]

this aint much but

I started reading The Property of Hate (2012-) webcomic and im liking it so far a lot so i animated 2 pages of it where the movement flowed so nicely in my head References below!!!

This webcomic strikes a nostalgia chord in me for some reason, its good of course, but i feel like i read it as a teen even that hasnt occured xd do you call this gaslight nostalgia anyways i feel really comfy reading it and imagining amv's of it to tally hall songs