#Sell your art on products

[yourlocalabomination]

May I present to you one of the dumbest things iv ever drawn.

[kastillia]

[goreboymoss]

Some little treats I'm working on for my friends

[bythehearts]

not to bring tiktok drama on tumblr but like every time a ‘scandal’ comes out with one of these ‘production companies’ that make fan films i always hope we’re finally gonna discuss how they professionalize something that should be an hobbyist endeavor… and yet every single time i’m disappointed.

[lucabyte]

Hohohohohohohohoooooo!!! Items aquired.....

Now to make some more designs now that I know how the process goes... Entirely OC items for my own amusement though, of course.

[festeringmoons]

Had this conversation and it irritated me so much I drew a comic about it

[somecunttookmyurl]

if people ever figure out how easy it is to obtain charms/pendants and attach them to jump rings im gonna be out of a job

[sherlock-is-ace]

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[cepheusgalaxy]

doodle spam

[IDs: A few doodles of Angel Dust. In the first one, he puts on lipstick and wears a fancy pink dress, while looking a bit tired. In the second one, he is on his knees holding a beer can and smilling, and in the last one, he poses near a large circle that reads "Trust US with your entertainment" -VoxTek", and wears a simpy black outfit made of leather straps. /end ID.]

[horseshoemybeloved]

i have so much beef with this one girl on YouTube whos whole channel is " making 15k a month as a full time artist? tips and tricks on how to be a full time artist " videos. and like. you click on it and she's like " you can sell on Esty! " ooo what does she recommend selling? " I sell financial guides for artists!" ..ok I cant do that, what else! " I also have a patreon! " ooo I've always wanted to make a patreon, what do artists post there? " I provide financial guidence for artists! "....ok.... " and my biggest money maker is YouTube! I get to make a living making art videos :)!!" ............*checks her yt and its 95% financial tips for artists videos*...........

[unknowablez]

you seem to enjoy my chaos art so here:

have some more

[atalana]

like i've been saying this for fucking years but. where do you think tumblr is getting its money from

like to be clear i do not like this change

but tumblr did everything it could to get us to pay for the site, and half the users went no fuck you and if you pay for the site im blocking you

so the money has to come from elsewhere

on every other social media they sell user data

so far tumblr has not done that

but they're out of options, so now they're doing what everyone else does, except they're telling us about it. which is a lot better than not telling us about it.

I've seen a couple people saying they're jumping ship for [other big socmed] after the AI announcement here, but like. Guys. Friends. You do realize all the other sites have been silently working with big AI companies for a while now. Yes, even Bluesky and Cohost and all the smaller ones. They're just not broadcasting it or giving you an option to help remove your work from automatic scraping.

I greatly prefer the transparency and the tiny bit of protection, no matter how flimsy. Tumblr is pretty awful, but it's still better than everything else so far. Which sucks but until we burn down the plutocracy, this isn't gonna be escapable.

(Also, no Tumblr did not quietly sneak this in. They literally announced it before implementing.)

[bbqhooligan]

TWITTER SUCKS ASS I HATE QUEER INFIGHTING THIS IS DISGRACEFUL ALL QUEER PEOPLE SHOULD BE KISSING EACH OTHERS HAND ON ONE KNEE LIKE A KNIGHT

[batboyblog]

Copy Right and Public Domain in 2024

Happy 2024 all! its also Public Domain Day! a magical holiday here in America where things enter the public domain. Works published in the year 1928 (or 95 years ago!) have entered the public domain, which means they belong to us, all of us, the public!

Mickey's Back!

Yes! I'm sure you've heard, but Mickey Mouse (and Minnie Mouse too) is entering the Public Domain today. This has been news for a few years and indeed Disney's lobbying in the late 1990s is why our copy right term is SO long. So what exactly is now public domain?

Most people know about Mickey's first appearance Steamboat Willie, but a second short film, Plane Crazy was also released in 1928 so will also be public domain. So what's public? well these two films first of all, you're allowed to play them, upload them to YouTube or whatever without paying Disney. In theory you'll be allowed to cut and sample them, have them playing in the background of your movie etc. Likewise in theory the image of Mickey and Minnie as they appear (thats important) in these films will be free to use as well as Mickey's character as he appears in these works will be free to use. Now Mickey's later and more famous appearance

will still be protected. Famously the Conan Doyle Estate claimed that Sherlock Holmes couldn't be nice, smile, or not hate women in works because they still held the copyright on the short stories where he first did those things even though 90% of Sherlock Holmes stories were public domain. It's very likely Disney will assert similar claims over Mickey, claiming much of his personality first appeared in works still copyrighted.

Finally there's copyright vs trademark. Copyright is total ownership of a piece of media and all the ideas that appear in it, copyright has a limited set term and expires. Trademark is more limited and only applies to things used to market and sell a product. You can have a Coke branded vending machine in your movie if you want, but it couldn't appear anywhere in the trailer for your movie as thats you marketing your movie.

Where trademark ends and copyright begins and how trademarked something in the public domain is allowed to be are all unsettled areas of law and clearly Disney in the last few years as been aggressively pushing its trademark not just to Mickey in general but Steamboat Willie Mickey in particular

Ultimately the legal rights and wrongs of this might not matter so much since few people have the money and legal resources of the Walt Disney corporation so they might manage to maintain a de facto copyright on Mickey through legal intimidation, but maybe not?

And Tigger Too!

All the talk about Mickey Mouse and Steamboat Willie has sadly overshadowed other MAJOR things entering the public domain today. Most people are aware Winnie the Pooh entered the public domain in 2022, but they might not realize his beloved friend Tigger didn't. Thats because Tigger didn't appear till A. A. Milne's second (and last) book of Pooh short stories, The House at Pooh Corner in 1928.

Much like Mickey Mouse only what appears in The House at Pooh Corner is public domain so the orange bouncy boy from the 1960s Disney cartoon is still on lock down. But the A. A. Milne original as illustrated by E. H. Shepard is free for you to use in fiction or art. His friend Winnie the Pooh has made a number of appearances since being freed, most notably in a horror movie, but also a Mint Mobile commercial so maybe Tigger too will have a lot of luck in the public domain.

Other works:

Peter Pan; or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up

Peter Pan is a strange case, even though the play was first mounted in 1904, and the novelization (Peter and Wendy) was published in 1911, The script for the play was not published till 1928 (confusing!) meaning while the novel as been public domain for years the play (which came first) hasn't been, but now it is and people are welcome to mount productions of it.

Millions of Cats

The oldest picture book still in print, did you own a copy growing up? (I did)

Lady Chatterley's Lover

The iconic porn novel that was at the center of a number of groundbreaking obscenity cases in the 1960s and helped establish your right to free speech.

All Quiet on the Western Front and The Threepenny Opera in their original German (but you can translate them if you want), The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie, and Orlando by Virginia Woolf will also be joining us in the public domain along with any and all plays, novels, and books published in 1928

for Films we have The Man Who Laughs who's iconic image inspired the Joker

Charlie Chaplin's The Circus, Buster Keaton's The Cameraman, Should Married Men Go Home? the first Laurel and Hardy movie, Lights of New York the first "all talking" movie, The Passion of Joan of Arc, The Wind, as well as The Last Command and Street Angel the first films to win Oscars for Best Actor and Best Actress respectively will all be entering public domain

For Musical Compositions (more on that in a moment) we've got

Mack the Knife by Bertolt Brecht, Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall in Love) by Cole Porter, Sonny Boy by George Gard DeSylva, Lew Brown & Ray Henderson, Empty Bed Blues by J. C. Johnson, and Makin’ Whoopee! by Gus Khan are some of the notables but any piece of music published in 1928 is covered

Any art work published in 1928, which might include works by Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe, Alexej von Jawlensky, Edward Hopper, and André Kertész will enter the public domain, we are sure those that M. C. Escher's Tower of Babel will be in the public domain

Swan Song, Public Domain and recorded music

While most things are covered by the Copyright Act of 1976 as amended by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, none of the copyright acts covered recordings you see when American copyright law was first written recordings did not exist and so through its many amendings no one fixed this problem, movies were treated like plays and artwork, but recorded sound wasn't covered by any federal law. So all sound recordings from before 1972 were governed by a confusing mess of state level laws making it basically impossible to say what was public and what was under copyright. In 2017 Congress managed to do something right and passed the Music Modernization Act. Under the act all recordings from 1922 and before would enter the public domain in 2022. After taking a break for 2023, all sound recordings made in 1923 have entered the public domain today on January 1st 2024, these include.

Charleston by James P. Johnson

Yes! We Have No Bananas (recorded by a lot artists that year)

Who’s Sorry Now by Lewis James

Down Hearted Blues by Bessie Smith

Lawdy, Lawdy Blues by Ida Cox

Southern Blues and Moonshine Blues by Ma Rainey

That American Boy of Mine and Parade of the Wooden Soldiers by Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra

Dipper Mouth Blues and Froggie More by King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band, featuring Louis Armstrong

Bambalina by Ray Miller Orchestra

Swingin’ Down the Lane by Isham Jones Orchestra

Enjoy your public domain works!

[paper-mario-wiki]

hey you want to know why the only major selling points of AI right now are the types of generative mock-art that it creates, while all other uses are mostly just talked about and all real-world tests of it have been catastrophic failures?

art is one of the only human-made things that does not require any degree of precision to be considered acceptable. an AI cant code because it would need to master precise, contextual syntax. it cant design the floor plan of a building because it would need to comprehend precisely how to arrange a room. it cant drive a car because it would need to make sense of everything that could possibly happen on a roadway to make decisions that are on par with a human acting on instinct.

there is so little AI can actually do, and the freak cunts trying to cram these LLMs down our throats are painfully aware that as soon as people start to recognize AI art as inherently flimsy and low production value (already happening), and AI writing becomes so incestuously self-fed that it's instantly recognizable to the human eye (kinda also already happening), theyre gonna be fucking sunk.

thats why youre seeing advertisments everywhere pushing AI so hard, with taglines like "you cant stop the future" or "welcome to the future" or whatever. it's the same reason crypto bros got a super bowl ad. they got what everyone wishes for: to get rich quick. unfortunately, after they flew up that mountain at breakneck speed, all they found was a sheer cliff face that they now see themselves barreling towards.

we can only hope their wheels are greased and their brakes are cut.

[tofupixel]

Hello! I really liked the Moo Deng pixel art. If it is okay with you, I would like to make a cross stitch pattern for private use. I will not sell either the pattern or thr finished product.

If you don't have any issues with this, could you upload or send me Moo Deng with transparent background. It makes making a cross stitch pattern easier.

If you don't want me to cross stitch your art, I won't. Have a wonderful day!

sure you are welcome to. i'm glad you liek it!!

here is the moo deng transparent, and a pixel grid for if anyone else wants to do it!

edit idk why the first one was not transparent but it is now : 3