#Copywright

[shakespearenews]

There are several issues here. One concerns the cavalier manner in which YouTube dealt with this situation – sadly, by no means an isolated incident. As the Public Citizen post explains, one of the video takedown victims was John Underwood, who had posted on YouTube videos of Shakespeare performances by a local non-profit group called Shakespeare by the Sea.

When he received notice that two of his videos had been removed because a takedown notice sent by Coallier, Underwood followed the DMCA rules, and sent a counter-notice. He not unnaturally assumed that would resolve such a clear-cut case, not least because Shakespeare by the Seas assured him that it had not relied on Coallier’s claimed version of the Shakespeare plays for their performances. But YouTube ignored the official DMCA procedures and refused to acknowledge Underwood’s counter-notice, or even forward it to Coallier. This was not a one-off: other targets of Coallier’s take-down had also had their counter-notices ignored by YouTube. So Underwood contacted Coallier directly.

shakespearenews.com

[furyreblogs]

Art Theft/Repost Warning

A user reposted artwork of Fenris from Dragon Age onto Tumblr, which they had pulled from Pinterest. And is now threatening retaliatory reposts for everyone who calls them out for reposting work that doesn't belong to them. This post can be found here. I did my best to locate and credit the original artists in my reblogged post.

After several other users commented about the reposting without permission or credits, the reposter is now threatening to upload more artwork each time someone comments about the unacceptable behavior.

You can see this post threatening retaliation for those who comment to credit the artist here. Artists, particularly those who have drawn Fenris from Dragon Age II, should monitor this user in case their work is posted and report them for Copyright Infringement—Submit a DMCA takedown request. They're also actively trying to hide and remove replies on their posts.

If you recognize an artist that has been stolen from, please inform the artist directly so that they can submit a report.

[jc-lambert]

Sanely Conveying the Insanity

Hello,

My name is J.C. Lambert. I was a volunteer who wrote for the Liberty Press out of Wichita Kansas prior to the massacres and riots, many of which where religiously driven and anti-human in nature (tribally speaking) While in Oregon, I wrote spastic S.O.S. emails which also included the offices of Oprah Windfrey. I am currently in Wichita (alive) and in the middle of having my siblings, their children, various local midwestern social networks and my mother sued for their every last penny, and if possible sold to a Cat Ranch: which has a lady operating as Madame who has come to be known by the same last name as myself.

Due to situations, it seems I have become a massacre writer. (Don't shoot the messenger)

The girls have been squatting and renting out my house. They've been claiming spousal status while living in perfect incest with their brother & persons from Emporia Kansas, who have stolen my identity a time or twenty. They now want Christmas Presents. (wouldn't anyone/everyone call that "being a whore") They've even taken it upon themselves to open my mail and steal my "Amazon Readathon" bookmarks.

My grandmother died, my aunt died while I was kidnapped by the authorities. Nobody told me. I have yet to see my mother. She's probably dead and the kids probably killed her, they had hacked into her Facebook.com acct.

My sister cashed out my life insurance policy and fled to Georgia after purchasing large quantities of the street drug known as craque in Florida. It seems to be made out of baking soda and a white substance called "coke". When this occurred, former employees of the State of Kansas had me mugged and kept me nabbed in the State of Oregon. So: they're probably off the hook?

There is going to be a gunshow in Wichita on the 7th of this month at the Century Building (the one that looks like a flying saucer) Would Oprah want to visit? I understand she is being called "Fat Ass Oprah" again and I understand she has mentioned "ashy legs" again on television. She might need a pistol.

My Club Genesis membership has lapsed.

I no longer have I.D. however I do have my fingerprint on file with California and Colorado Driving Record and I think Genesis would have my Florida and Kansas I.D. on file, perhaps not my Oklahoma.

I have in my possession what kids would call a "nug" of weed. That weed seems to be reefer. I really do not know anyone trustworthy who would smoke it. Most reefer smokers that I know, are the kind of people who should have a bullet put in their body in ways that they might not wake up after. Not because they're drug addicts: but because they cause too much negativity.

Does anyone know anyone I can trade that "nug" to have them pay to have my membership reinstated? I'm having to get actual work. Right? Like money and such and finances and this and that. Normally I volunteer/slave and live off SSI & foodstamps. However, foodstamps is a department of Women, Children, and Families. While my co-wives (both of whom are beards and money grubbing hos who thought my liberating things I bought with slave wages where worth something: but sort of reduced them the moment they where in their hands) are in prison for double homicide and a mental institution for having the maiden name of Lucifer, I am not to be on foodstamps, so it seems.

I hope you and yours are doing well... and that further riot and massacre does not ensue.

:-P

Police arrested me at a computer terminal, and killed several of my "Anurean" accounts. So, I sort of got ahold of old lawyers who work with my trustfund. There is stock in Black Cat Fireworks Inc as well as several mines that produce gunpowder. Most of said police are dead. They where in most cases, white. Their lives where said not to matter at the time of massacre. I have yet to have my emails back, which includeth (and I do mean INCLUDETH) my iCloud/iTunes account.

Hopefully I have lawyers for that too, and my lawyers who made the decision to pull the trigger. I understand there is a new movement, one very American that will use the "N Word". It is called "White Lives Matter". I wonder if those Immigrants from Africa thought to copywrite all their propaganda. If so: they need to sue.

jc-lambert.tumblr.com

#Anurean

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[puslebit]

Måneøyne

De er mine, øy- nene. Ey! Se! Klar for en ekspedisjon? Glimt er aldri lukket, de reflekterer. Det reflekteres. Ingen linselus her, men en del krater vil du finne gitt at du lyser godt, da synes jeg du er strålende.

[elementaldragon47]

They are really mischievous, those two. 💚 💙

[techmomma]

45 million dollars and the Orange made a parade that was somehow worse than fascist and extravagant.

it was boring.

[just-an-enby-lemon]

I hate copyright laws in relation to big companies soo much. It's a pathetic predatory market made to keep the means of poduction in the hands of few.

That's to say that the company responsable for Peppa Pig is processing an old lady (who didn't even had high education nor new about copyright law to begin with) because she sold in her handmade Peppa things in her small inline store (that she made to sustain herself after losing her job). They are suing her for 20 thousand reais wich means nothing monetarialy for them but will financially break this woman forever, she'll likely never be abble to pay this up. And like you can't seriusly convince me, that a brazilian old lady with her small store that only got kinda famous besides very very locally because of the lawsuit represented ANY actual loss to the company. They do this stuff because they can, because it helps to scare other small irrelevant local shops and so upheld the system, because fucks over the artisan class.

She already had to pay 5 thousand reais because of "hedonic damage" and while hopefully not the 20 thousand she was ruled guilty and a "threat to the company" (the justicy system is a joke).

[rillette]

Hiiii soup!!!! Long time no talkkkkk how's it going man?

HI MASHALL!!!! currently my tumblr is shitting itself from boops. ive been timed out from booping too hard 😔 other than that ive been good!! busy with work, unfortunately nursing a bit of a star wars fixation at the moment i think someone should put me down like a lame dog before i turn into a dudebro werewolf style to be quite honest! how are you!!!!!!

[razorsharpteeth]

Right, any ... biologists or whatever the fuck's the part of science that's about chickens who could explain the chicken that's showed up in the community garden? It's all fine and good — healthy, yknow, but it's got a rubber beak. It sounds like a rubber chicken.

[itsukia]

Seeing people losing their mind over alex avila new ai video is so funny like they truly didnt liked that he didnt just said ai art bad

[sycamoreesc]

I've made a pp eventually,, It's not much but I think it's cute 😅

[jasmineportfolio1091]

Whole Foods Market_SPEC_Tone Guide

Assignment Description: I used a real company to create a mock brand tone guide for this assignment. Below is an example of how I would craft your brand’s voice and tone in a guide that will be used for consistency across all forms of communication. 

Brand: Whole Foods Market

Positioning Statement: Whole Foods Market’s products consist of fresh, natural, organic produce, holistic home & self-care essentials, artisan-style delicacies, and deliciously nutritious on-the-go meals. Busy, health-conscious shoppers can depend on receiving high-quality foods that will increase their overall health and wellness while improving the environment. Whole Foods Market is the only USDA-certified organic market in the United States.

Descriptors:

Reliable

Inspirational

Mindful

Altruistic 

Innovative

Explanation:

Whole Foods Market is reliable because it consistently provides high-quality groceries and goods for its shoppers. WFM is not inconsistent with its quality standards.

Embrace: WFM would say reliable things like “quality checked, farmer trusted, brands you can rely on repeatedly.”

Avoid: WFM would not say things that sound like “occasionally farmer checked” or “brands that sometimes meet the mark.”

Whole Foods Market is inspirational because it compels shoppers to take time to invest in their physical and environmental well-being. WFM is not boring or mundane.

Embrace: WFM would say that "true fulfillment comes from knowing what's on your plate."

Avoid: WFM would not say things that sound like, “Come eat the same foods you’re used to”

Whole Foods Market is mindful because it is responsible, thoughtful, and attentive. WFM is not careless or flighty.

Embrace: WFM would say things that sound like “sustainably sourced,"; "fair trade made"; "responsibly crafted to your satisfaction."

Avoid: WFM would not say, "Don’t check the labels, eat at your own risk.”

Whole Foods Market is altruistic because it embraces community partners and has an impactful social awareness to better the environment. WFM is not arrogant or individualistic.

Embrace: WFM would say things that sound like "locally harvested,"; "supporting the ones who do it right,"; **"our purpose is to nourish people and the planet."

Avoid: WFM would not say things like, “great value for massed produced meats”; or “Let’s keep all of the good stuff just for us.”

Whole Foods Market is innovative because it is the first exclusively organic market in the USA with a modern take on holistic living and sustainable farming practices. WFM is not gimmicky or casual.

Embrace: WFM would say, "customer-centered, sustainably driven, since day one."

Avoid: WFM would not say things like, "the OG of organic grocery giant, servin' up fresh ones on the daily" or “Since it’s never been done before, we’re not going to be the ones who try first.”

BRAND KEYWORDS AND PHRASES: **“SOURCED FOR GOOD: PRODUCTS THAT TASTE GOOD — AND DO GOOD.”; **“RAISED RIGHT”; “NOURISHMENT FOR THE MIND, BODY, AND SOIL”; "FAIR TRADE"; "ORGANIC"; "ALL NATURAL"; "HIGH-QUALITY STANDARDS": "HIGH-QUALITY PREMIUM FOOD AND GOODS"; "MODERN ORGANIC"; "RESPONSIBLY GROWN AND SOURCED";

**cites from Whole Foods Market website

Written by Jasmine Joseph

[beautifulvalleywitch]

𝓜𝓪𝓰𝓲𝓬𝓴 𝓬𝓲𝓻𝓬𝓵𝓮𝓼 & 𝓬𝓪𝓼𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓶✨

Hi beautifuls,

I’ve made Grimoire pages on the topic of magick circles/casting circles! There’s also an extra few pages on fairy rings🍄🧚🏻‍♀️

Offering this for $2 AUD for a PDF watermark free digital file, which you can print and is compatible with most digital Grimoires (I.e. IPad Goodnotes).

otherwise enjoy this freebie and the info within!🥰

let me know what other topics you’d like Grimoire pages made on😊

*copywright, please do not share without credit or claim as your own*

[redhoodinternaldialectical]

A Collection of Times that Batman has Killed

Batman is a character very famous for having a hard line no killing stance - but there are a lot of times when he has absolutely killed people! I think it'd be interesting to take a look at how and why authors choose to make him kill, and especially at what Watsonian/in-universe logic is used to justify him killing. I partly think it'd just be neat, but also I have a very strong suspicion that the most common reason used is going to end up being "they weren't human" and that in turn that pattern is going to result in a pattern of Bruce himself failing to value non-human sentient people.

As such I'm gonna just informally start jotting down the context and data every time I see him go for the kill

In this post specifically I'll be laying out my assumptions and thoughts about this and do a lil short analysis of each of my first three starting points

Cosmic Odyssey #1

Watsonian Context: One of Darkseid's troops got stranded and started dragging people into the sewers for food and eating them. Batman knows without a doubt that this alien is sentient, he's seen the advanced tech he was using and the chair he make-shifted for himself. The clear justification within narrative is that this is a cannibalistic monster, a nonhuman with no redeeming qualities - which is kinda odd given that this juxtaposes with the tale of the "humans" who waged an unjust war against a bunch of aliens simply because they thought they were evolutionarily superior. Bit of a mixed message there.

Doyalist Context: Written by Jim Starlin in 1988 or at least that's what the copywright listed on my copy said. Starlin has made Batman kill at least one other time so we should keep in mind that killing simply isn't beyond the pale for this version of Bruce.

Batman (1940) #415

Jaybin shooting at the cops <3 also the way they dispatch this robot is like beat for beat the way that Bruce dispatches the Amazo robot that Jason later siccs on him and Dick Grayson, a beautiful little parallel in the use of that small shaped explosive device

Watsonian Context: This is a Manhunter posing as Jim Gordon. Batman doesn't necessarily know that these are sentient at this point, but he also doesn't know for sure that they aren't sentient either, and again, he's basing calling Fake Gordon an 'it' on the fact that he's not human, and just look at the panels dog, that's very obviously the reason we're not supposed to feel like it's a big deal that Jason and Bruce are dismantling him with a shotgun and a small bomb.

Doyalist Context: Written by Jim Starlin in 1988, again there's a point at which Starlin has Batman killing a human, so it's not beyond the pale to begin with, but also Robots are generally a shorthand way for authors to give us mooks and goons that it's okay for the Good Guys to kill indiscriminately. There's not supposed to be any moral conflict here at all, and it's basically not even treated as a killing; they straight up throw this guy's head in the literal garbage when they're done pulling out his memories. Harsh!

Batman (1940) The Funny Weed Number (issue #420)

I've already talked about this one before, so I'll keep it brief: Batman very definitely attempted to kill the KGBeast

Doyalist Context: Written by Jim Starlin in 1988. Distinct from the two non-human kills, the KGBeast's death is given a heck of a lot more weight and is clearly a much more grave and gritty decision for Batman to make. We also don't see the killing blow as it were, there's no gore or destruction on panel, he just traps him in a scenario that's liable to be deadly.

DC vs Vampires

Watsonian Context: "You can't kill them. They're already dead." Is the line that got me curious about all this in the first place, especially combined with the idea of the "no metas in Gotham" rule. It's unavoidable here; vampires are fully sentient beings with every capacity to be decent people and they simply do not count to Bruce because they are biologically different than base humans. Now one could make a good argument that the scale of the threat pushed him more towards killing outright, and that's probably at least a little true, but in the Injustice series his conviction to kill is left intact and he's up against an equivalent scale threat there.

Doyalist Context: Written by Matthew Rosenberg and James Tynion IV in 2021. Batman's refusal to kill is by this point an incredibly well embedded character trait. The genre of this comic though is specifically apocalyptic. It's got a lot in common with Marvel's zombie books or heck even DCeased - The vampires are specifically a world ending hoard, and that kind of story just doesn't mesh well with someone who refuses to kill? I dunno, I feel like that had to have been a factor in the decision making process, but at the same time, I think they could have kept Bruce's conviction not to kill just fine if they'd wanted to.

Some extra thoughts:

So, the fact that Starlin is up here so much is interesting. I have a hunch that Batman's no kill rule is in large part a direct response to The Killing Joke and A Death in the Family making it really weird that Bruce hasn't killed the Joker. If that's true then it's not exactly surprising that Starlin has such a high kill count for him; he'd have been the last writer that didn't have to deal with that question and he was prone to 'grittier' 'darker' stories to begin with. On the other hand, I might just happen to be obsessed with Jason Todd and that means reading a lot of 1980s comics *shrug*

One assumption of mine that's going strong though is that Batman simply values non-human life less than human life. Most authors do too. Most stories need disposable badguys and inhumanity is the easiest way to produce them, yet at the same time totally non-sentient enemies are often pretty lame. Gone are the days when we all just want to see a dozen buff men getting into fisticuffs with big gorillas lmao. So you get hordes of zombies, robots, vampires, demons, hive mind aliens - basically anything nonhuman is ten to twenty times more likely to end up as an "it doesn't count" kill.

Anyhow, that's it for my rambles for today

Please feel free to add on if you've got more of these! I know he killed people TONS in the very earliest comics lol and I'd be interested in hearing about when that stopped being such a thing for him if anyone knows

[ballet-symphonie]

I think the new Mariinsky of Coppelia is one of the most beautiful productions to come out recently! I'm really curious what you mean by stolen Pharaoh's Daughter! Please give me all the drama and tea. Also, what are they using of Ratmansky? I thought they went back to that grigorovich production of Sleeping Beauty? I'm so confused can you explain what is happening? Also, don't they still do Jewels? Isn't that Balanchine? are they even allowed? Sorry if i sound like I'm rambling but I'm so confused

Pharoah's Daughter

Here is an from NYT interviewing Ratmansky where he discusses the situation in depth but I will summarize it. NYT Article

The Phraroah's Daughter is a whole big drama. Alexei Ratmansky was creating a new reconstruction at Mariinsky before the war broke out.When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Ratmansky canceled the premiere in May 2022. Fateev (then director of MT) hired Toni Candeloro to finish the reconstruction.

Fateev said the whole ballet was re-choreographed by Candeloro but this is blatantly not the case. Ratmansky and his wife had spent 2 years going through the old notations and documents to create this restoration, the idea that Candeloro could create a brand new 3.5-hour ballet (yes it is that long) in a fraction of the time is frankly a tragic comedy on the level of Shakespeare. And of course, Ratmansky's name is nowhere in the credits.

Russians have also claimed that no prior knowledge or access to any of Ratmanksy's work was available, but I find that hard to believe considering there are clips of Ratmanksy rehearsing the ballet at MT still chilling on Mariinksy's Youtube.

Here you can read Ratmansky’s statement on Instagram on the matter, accompanied by Antonio Casalinho performing the famous act 2 pas d’action variation from Pharoah’s Daughter.

Here is a video of Kimin Kim in the same variation from the actual MT production. The two videos are nearly identical, this is clearly theft of Ratmansky’s work.

Copywright/ Theft

Ratmansky's name has been removed from all credits of the Bolshoi and Mariinsky. Yet his work, such as Flames of Paris, and The Bright Stream, and others, have been performed since he withdrew his work from Russia without Ratmanksy's name attached - which means he's not receiving royalties for these.

Licenses of Productions

Generally, to perform works by other companies, you need a license from either the company, the choreographer, or the choreographic trust (think the Balanchine Trust or John Cranko Trust). You negotiate fees for a stager/repetiteur to come and oversee the teaching of the repertory, and check-ins to make sure that rehearsals are going well, the style is being adhered to, and that the intentions of the choreography is correct, as the original choreographer intended. The license also covers costume details (are you making your own according to the style? Buying or renting from someone else?), staging requirements (tech, music, sets, lighting etc), how many performances, and with what types of credits.

Many of the Bolshoi/Mariinsky licenses to perform ballets by foreign choreographers have expired/are expiring. Western arts organizations are mostly not renewing them given the circumstances. Therefore BT/MT no longer have the rights to program those ballets and cannot do so without a high probability of facing legal ramifications.

For example, The Bolshoi no longer can perform their semi-recent premiere, Orlando by Christopher Spuck, these rights expired in March 2024. Similarly, their contract for Jewels is up as well as Nureyev created by Possokhov-Serebrennikov. Mariinsky's Jewels is said to expire in 2025. You can read more details here.

[killer-wizard]

nevermind youtube ate it. at least we have this very cool image

i have made a new playlist over on youtube. watch if u wanna! its 2010s nightcore themed :)