I’m literally crying at how cute this is ? Not Kazutora trying to imitate Baji’s canines!!!!

BAJISAN NOTICE ME—

if Sparda came back I think Nero should kick his ass. He's already beat up his father and uncle, let's continue the trend with grandpa

#listen#if i was raised by a cult that worshiped my grandfather#and then used as a living battery in said grandfather's name#i too would want to kick his ass#its not even about him. its the principle of it all#nero fighting sparda: listen this isn't even about you. don't take it personally

YES EXACTLY

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Practicing photorealism. This little guy here took me approx. nine hours 🍄

POV: The space void is stealing your sandwich with his blackhole of a stomach ✨⭐

And in case any homophobic bigots missed my last 2 pride posts: you see this cat? He's gay. That sandwich? Also gay. The plate? Extremely homosexual. The table? It's made of vashwood.

despite staff's recent changes, we're... winning??????

starting to suspect that tech bros actually just don’t know what reading is

Also this is not true. You do in fact have the copyright to the specific writing you did in a fic, because that's not how copyright law works. Like this is not a grey area.

People who write IP content for corporations give up their copyright on a contractual basis--the company wants writing they can sell about characters/settings they own without getting entangled in royalty obligations etc, so they hire people. Who sign contracts saying they don't own what they write as part of that job.

That's why you don't own Star Wars stuff you wrote for Disney; you specifically agreed not to own it.

Writing for IP you don't own leaves you in a position where you can't legally monetize it (without taking out the Owned parts ad rebranding), but it absolutely does not automatically cede or void copyright. That is super not a thing.

SUPER not a thing, I cannot say this enough.

I can't sell my Batman fic, but neither can DC Comics without my duly authorized consent. Because they own Batman, but not the prose I composed about him.

Do not perform that kind of massive corporate overreach for them. Holy shit. Do they not own enough.

It’s fascinating that this misconception of copyright still exists. Haven’t we all seen the posts on here where authors beg fans to please not send them fanfic of their works? They’re not doing that because they feel like it, they do that because fans legally own their words and ideas, and an author who takes them even unintentionally can in fact end up in real legal trouble for taking something that’s not theirs. It doesn’t matter whether they own the canon.

I get why some people in certain fandoms get confused about this, because someone did create the original concept of content for say, Harry Potter. But the fact is that copyright applies to the individual expression, i.e. the actual text of a book or recording of a film or a song. You cannot copyright ideas. Not really. Once you take an idea and add your own original thoughts to it, the original copyright only really applies if you are taking parts verbatim from the books for example and publishing them on your own.

As a writer in a fandom of real people, it's honestly a bit more free. No one invented the concept of min yoongi or park Jimin (not in a way you can copyright, anyway). But when I write a story about them, copyright automatically applies to the expression of my ideas. I don't technically have to do anything to make the copyright exist. Now, if someone took my work and claimed it as their own, i would have to have a legally filed copyright, that i filled out paperwork and paid money for, in order to sue those people for money, and it would only really see any legal action if the other person was making money off of my expression.

I often see fanfiction writers putting "copyright" on their works. Unless you have actual paperwork, this does nothing more than me not putting it, which is why I never have. I have a copyright to all my original works, so does every other fanfic writer.

If you take someone's work and claim it as your own or feed it to an AI or make reproductios of it and share it with your sister-in-law, you are violating their copyright, even if it is only effectively a moral crime at that level. you are a bad person and you should feel bad about it.

Don't steal people's art. End of story.

Arthur & John (maybe later Jack) textbook examples.

These are books from my house. My mother is trying to downsize and she was tossing these around the place. : ( Turns out they are from RDR’s era. Arthur would have been too old, but these are similar to what he would have had. John MIGHT have still been told to look at these by Hosea, but these would definitely be around for when Jack was in camp, Tilly was learning to read or when Lenny was trying to teach Sean to read. (Sorry my hand is in a few pics.)

Title: Standard Educational Series 5th Reader Standard School Book

Says a name and (18)88.

With bonus Yosemite picture.

AND

Copyright 1862, then 1873.( John’s birth year, funny enough.) SO, I would gather that this book itself is probably from the 1880s, 1890s at the latest because these all came from a stack of books that my mother bought years ago that were from that time frame. 

“ Heavy shorebreak “ // Derek Gomez

I THINK I FOUND AN APARTMENT!!!!

So I was scammed the past few times so that’s why I said I think but I’m signing the lease Monday and my goal for GoFundMe has lowered to $600 I’m working my ass off to get into this place and honestly anything can help even just some encouraging words but I am going to link my go fund me incase anyone is able to donate thank you again guys

Ethan, you wanna see some shit?