#Copyright Society

[worldipday]

WOMEN TRAILBLAZERS CREATING SUCCESS THROUGH COPYRIGHT.

The Copyright Alliance, in collaboration with the U.S. Copyright Office, the Copyright Society, the Global Innovation Policy Center (GIPC), the U.S. Intellectual Property Alliance, and numerous Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts (VLA) organizations across the country, will host a World Intellectual Property Day (WIPD) 2023 event titled Women Trailblazers Creating Success Through Copyright on Wednesday, April 26 from 2-3:30 p.m. ET. This virtual panel is in keeping with the World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) 2023 theme, Women and IP: Accelerating Innovation and Creativity. Join us to hear from inspiring women who will discuss how copyright has helped them to advance their careers and protect and distribute their and others’ creative works. Attendees will also learn the steps they can take to forge their own career path by protecting their creativities as well as their livelihoods. Our panel moderator is Karyn A. Temple, Former Register of Copyrights and SEVP & Global General Counsel at the Motion Picture Association; and our panelists are Jayda Imanlihen, Founder of the Black Girl Film School; Alicia Calzada, Deputy General Counsel for the National Press Photographers Association; Tristen Norman, Director, Creative Insights, Getty Images; and Miriam Lord, Associate Register of Copyrights and Director of Public Information and Education at the U.S. Copyright Office. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to gain insights and advice from leading women in the creative and copyright industries. VLA Cohosts: California Lawyers for the Arts Carolina Lawyers for the Arts & Entertainment Chicago Lawyers for the Creative Arts Colorado Attorneys for the Arts Georgia Lawyers for the Arts Maryland Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts New York Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts Oregon Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts St. Louis Volunteer Lawyers and Accountants for the Arts Texas Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts The Ella Project Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts.

[busterkeatonsociety]

This Day in Buster…July 21, 1927

William Pittenger’s widow files a case against Buster Keaton’s studio for ‘lifting’ the plot of “The General” from her late husband’s book.  Buster’s response & the state of litigation when it comes to copyright makes a fascinating read.

[fond-illusion]

I bear the weight of unspoken words - ones that desperately needed to be heard, but never found their voice. I am perpetually consumed by thoughts of you. So much so, I’ve deluded myself into believing that this collection might resolve any lingering anguish. If I am honest with myself, which you always urged me to be, I foolishly cling to the hope that these pages, instilled with memories, might one day reach you.

No, that is not entirely accurate.

Ultimately, I cannot bear the thought of forgetting. Father always told me these moments are few and precious, slipping through our fingers if we are not careful. Thus, I want to remember everything - the delicate dusting of freckles across the bridge of your nose, a tiny constellation only I have memorized; the small mole on your left shoulder, a mark I have traced countless times; even the veins that snake across your calloused hands, which I know better than my own. I wish to recall your entirety for as long as I can; not just fleeting moments that surface when something or another reminds me of you. Until the inevitable day when my tongue can no longer string together the syllables of your name. 

Please, too, remember me always.

copyright © 2024 by fond illusion.

[darkerthanblack-666]

Silent Library Suomi with Lost Society

recorded by @fangirlinglikealoon 💖

[yuriartillery]

reading the thoughts of those IP defenders is interesting. a lot of them will argue "we should just reform copyright such that it can no longer be used by big corporations exploitatively". it's completely idealistic. any attempt to "reform" copyright in that way would be completely at odds with the material interests of the people currently propping up the current system, and they would correctly identify any of those efforts at massive sweeping reform as tantamount to copyright abolition and oppose it just as staunchly! but even if it wasn't, those enfranchised parties are directly incentivized to never give an inch! you're not reforming your way out of this one, girl!!!

[marynia-here]

𓇢

Shut your ears, Close your mouth, Never ever break the glass, Hold the secrets, make them last, Living thru our parents past.

[dragonsorphan]

Murgeon

What if

We never rid ourselves

Of the scents of others

Buried in our hands

Their cells

The dregs and whispers

Of dying moments of existence

Of skin we have held

Our fingers dirty

Steeped in filthy mementos

Never coming clean

[chewwytwee]

People reallllly fell for the whole meritocracy lie. Having skill will not earn you wealth because wealth is not a function of skill.

[jolikmc-thoughts]

Few things make me come unglued. This? Yeah, this made me come un-fucking-glued.

I don't give a shit if the SESAC and Alphabet, Inc. are having a lover's tat. Don't block my videos that use shitty covers of your unstable record labels' songs. It's especially fucked up that a fucking AdLib Visual Composer cover of one of Rush's shitty songs somehow got entangled in this mess. It's literally just a beeps-and-boops version of the song, you fuck-nuts!!

Fuck you, Alphabet, Inc. And Google. And YouTube. And especially you, Society of European Stage Authors and Composers.

[soullessjack]

I love how the costume designers on spn will have this intricate shirt meta with different outfits or patterns or color choices and then when it came to jacks first ever outfit they just threw a shirt on him that says “fuck around and find out”

[dichotomoustessellations]

Copyright law is good in theory and im sure helps protect many deserving people but also probably fails people being exploited as well. It also served as a war on the culture of jazz standards and is a form of terrorism against the youth in a sampling accessible era

[thoughtportal]

As the maker of small things I found this manifesto to be incredibly inspiring and hopeful.

small technology, small economy, small community

[consult-sherlockholmes]

Don’t worry Sherlock nobody would call you ‘easy to deal with’.

Glad to be a menace to society.

[mysterylovergurl]

I'm tired of people and their stupid promises. I'm tired of caring and feeling all my emotions too deeply. I just need someone to hold me , offer their shoulder to cry on till I lose my mind and forget that my tender emotions ever existed.

[the-happy-man]

In USA.

Instead of changing its business model, however, the Doyle estate mounted another “curious” copyright claim in 2020, this time against the Enola Holmes Mysteries books and Netflix’s first Enola Holmes movie. It acknowledged that anyone is “free to use and adapt the characters” in the public domain Sherlock Holmes stories. Its new theory was that it had a copyright in certain personality traits that Holmes exhibited in later, still-copyrighted stories, where he “became capable of friendship,” began to “express emotion” and “respect women,” and even developed a “great interest” in dogs. This theory did not succeed. It is “elementary” copyright doctrine that generic traits such as warmth, empathy, respect, and canine enthusiasm are unprotectable ideas. 6  The parties agreed to dismiss the lawsuit and settled in December 2020.

Many of the works featured above are famous; that is why we included them. Their copyright holders benefited from 20 more years of copyright because the works had enduring popularity and were still earning royalties. But when Congress extended the copyright term for works like The Sun Also Rises, it also did so for all of the works whose commercial viability had long subsided. For the vast majority—probably 99%—of works from 1926, no copyright holder financially benefited from continued copyright. Yet they remained off limits, for no good reason. (A Congressional Research Service report indicated that only around 2% of copyrights between 55 and 75 years old retain commercial value. After 75 years, that percentage is even lower. Most older works are “orphan works,” where the copyright owner cannot be found at all.)

Now that these works are in the public domain, anyone can make them available to the public. This enables access to our cultural heritage—access to materials that might otherwise be forgotten. As mentioned earlier, 1926 was a long time ago and the majority of works from that year are out of circulation. When they enter the public domain in 2022, anyone can republish or post them online. (Empirical studies have shown that public domain books are less expensive, available in more editions and formats, and more likely to be in print—see here, here, and here.) The works listed above are just the tip of the iceberg. Many more works are waiting to be rediscovered.

[livvyofthelake]

the trouble i went through in the past 30 minutes to be able to fucking make this post. just so i could attempt to make even one person understand what i mean when i say this shit sounds so goddamn similar. is ridiculous. the similarities have been bugging me for MONTHS and frankly it's driving me out of my mind. someone validate me and tell me this shit sounds the same so i don't completely lose my fucking marbles...