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Now with more links!
If you're going to get butthurt over someone being blunt about this, then stop reading now.
Good grief people. Start doing your own research. Look at the Library of Congress site thomas.loc.gov/ there is no such 'orphaned works' bill currently up for debate ANYWHERE. Stop getting your freaking panties in a twist and stop taking biased websites' word on how the evil government just wants to own everything and get money off of us. Yes, art websites are biased because they're going to want to protect their own field and nothing is more threatening than the big scary American government ;_;. They're basing their articles off of old information, if that, and paranoia. Loads of paranoia.
If you want some information from people who actually took the time to investigate this thing, check out the links I've posted. You'll quickly find that while orphaned works are indeed a real issue and bills dealing with them have been suggested in the past, this current 'bill' is nothing more than a bunch of people foaming at the mouth and wearing tin foil hats.
These are links to a recent discussion of the issue and contain other links, including the actual proposed bill itself, that you may find more informative than a bunch of conspiracy theorists:
community.livejournal.com/arti…
community.livejournal.com/arti…
community.livejournal.com/arti…
community.livejournal.com/arti…
community.livejournal.com/arti…
community.livejournal.com/arti…
If you're THAT worried about the government stealing your art, then the ONLY solution is to NOT POST YOUR WORK ONLINE, OR ANYWHERE ELSE, EVER. I've yet to see anyone actually suggest or do this though. I guess righteous anger is more important than actually being proactive on your own end and protecting your work in the most sensible way possible.
Why no, I'm not fed up with hearing this issue brought up every six months by people who never take the time to find the facts.
Off to worry about more real and pressing issues now.
EDIT: This is a nice summary of what this bill actually proposes to do, plus more links and discussion: community.livejournal.com/arti…
Another nice one, about the misconceptions of 'orphaned works': maradydd.livejournal.com/37488…
The proposed 2008 update to this orphaned works bill: www.asmp.org/news/spec2008/orp…
If you're going to get butthurt over someone being blunt about this, then stop reading now.
Good grief people. Start doing your own research. Look at the Library of Congress site thomas.loc.gov/ there is no such 'orphaned works' bill currently up for debate ANYWHERE. Stop getting your freaking panties in a twist and stop taking biased websites' word on how the evil government just wants to own everything and get money off of us. Yes, art websites are biased because they're going to want to protect their own field and nothing is more threatening than the big scary American government ;_;. They're basing their articles off of old information, if that, and paranoia. Loads of paranoia.
If you want some information from people who actually took the time to investigate this thing, check out the links I've posted. You'll quickly find that while orphaned works are indeed a real issue and bills dealing with them have been suggested in the past, this current 'bill' is nothing more than a bunch of people foaming at the mouth and wearing tin foil hats.
These are links to a recent discussion of the issue and contain other links, including the actual proposed bill itself, that you may find more informative than a bunch of conspiracy theorists:
community.livejournal.com/arti…
community.livejournal.com/arti…
community.livejournal.com/arti…
community.livejournal.com/arti…
community.livejournal.com/arti…
community.livejournal.com/arti…
If you're THAT worried about the government stealing your art, then the ONLY solution is to NOT POST YOUR WORK ONLINE, OR ANYWHERE ELSE, EVER. I've yet to see anyone actually suggest or do this though. I guess righteous anger is more important than actually being proactive on your own end and protecting your work in the most sensible way possible.
Why no, I'm not fed up with hearing this issue brought up every six months by people who never take the time to find the facts.
Off to worry about more real and pressing issues now.
EDIT: This is a nice summary of what this bill actually proposes to do, plus more links and discussion: community.livejournal.com/arti…
Another nice one, about the misconceptions of 'orphaned works': maradydd.livejournal.com/37488…
The proposed 2008 update to this orphaned works bill: www.asmp.org/news/spec2008/orp…
Eclipse 'n stuff
Wasn't thrilled with what I was hearing of it before. So far not impressed. I'm not going anywhere, if only because I don't know of another place to just dump whatever art I do, but if anyone's heading out and wants to swap account names for other sites, let me know.
2020
I do actually have art in progress. Downloaded FireAlpaca to try since Adobe's got some dubious ethics these days. So far I'm enjoying it pretty well. I have to go slowly with digital stuff because my hands can't take a lot of it nowadays.
Finally got a pair of bettas to spawn for me. If I get some good ones I might send them to the show in April, but I will have to see how it goes.
Uuuum that's it for now. Just letting yall know I"m alive.
Yearly entry
Hiyo. Time for my yearly journal entry. 2019's not been the best year but that's neither here nor there.
Baby bettas did happen. I currently have eight of the babies left, two males and six females. I'm going to a local betta show later this month, not to show any of mine, but just to check out the club and see what goes down at a betta show. And hopefully to come back with a new breeding pair!
I've been playing more baroque violin lately. Really would like to play in a group, but the local college that has an early music ensemble class has already started classes, and I'm not sure they let community members audit classes anyway. I've been
New Year
Oh geez that was an old journal entry.
I expanded my garden this year. I'm growing pineapple sage, some tomato I can't remember, German Johnson tomatoes, black cherry tomatoes, bull nose peppers, California wonder peppers, Greek oregano, German chamomile, Goodwin Creek lavender, rosemary, thyme, Persian catmint, lemon balm, cantaloupes, and purple basil. I added two hostas to a flower bed where I cut down a stupid tree.
Also I'm trying to get some chickens for my back yard but getting hold of a coop that's suitable for my needs and not ridiculously expensive is proving surprisingly difficult. I'm shifting gears and looking into making one in
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Yanno, I figured something like this wasn't detramental to my personal work.