#i am an artist and a LAWYER

[hellenhighwater]

you got zero business calling other people weasels you self-obsessed turd

What part of "I made this as a gift for my dad with no intention of selling it" made you think I was trying to draw attention? I'm not trying to start a shop, I just have been bombarded by requests to buy something I wasn't selling, so I put it up for people that wanted it.

This is tumblr. We frown on art theft here, and the original post said, very clearly, that that flag was a custom design I'd made myself. Instead of just reblogging the post, someone chose to crop out everything except my work and then re-post it without credit. It's since popped up on the social media feeds of several high-profile individuals and companies, and then was almost immediately merchandized by several custom-print tshirt companies, all without any attribution. This annoys me.

Look, just because art is funny doesn't mean it's not art, and I really, really don't appreciate having my work taken and circulated without credit or permission. It would be different if they'd asked. I'm not going to pitch a fuss about it or tell people they can't share the cropped image post, but that doesn't mean it should have happened in the first place.

[theminecraftbee]

-slamming bolt upright in a cold sweat- what do you mean verbal contracts cleo. what do you MEAN verbal contracts cleo. artists if you're doing commercial work you're A) charging much higher rates and B) making them SIGN A CONTRACT, right? right? you understand why that's VITAL, right? why having a written contract is VITAL for commercial work? you understand? you make them sign a written contract? please if you go looking in proper artist/graphic design circles i'm sure you can find a basic form that's legal in your locality and doesn't require you talk to a lawyer but if you're doing commercial work you're MAKING THEM SIGN A CONTRACT RIGHT--

[dropkickslurpee]

Hi all, hope all is well

So here's what's up: my father recently died. he was young. no one was prepared. everything fell on me. I went into massive debt for his burial, and it continues to get worse as I pay for all the things I need to do to deal with his property. I would greatly appreciate it if you bought something from my society6 page, to help me get through these next few months.

Here's some of the stuff currently available in my shop!

I don't make a lot from society6, but really anything helps right now. I will have more designs up soon (including some of my yeehawgust art!) and I will also be reopening my etsy account at some point this week. stay tuned.

Thank you 💚

[blueberryfruitbat]

@staff

I retain ownership and rights over my content.

"We never want to do anything with your work that surprises you" Selling it to Midjouney without warning surprises me.

But not AI, which you profit from and we don't, which is different than allowing Search Engine APIs to see and display the art.

And you are getting paid to use my art and content, which should mean I get proper reimbursement for my creations, which are as you say "entirely mine".

[legendary-guest]

I am quickly realising that I really like post-Graduation Drakgo to be...careerists. Forget defecting to the side of good, forget villainy (okay, they can't quite forget villainy), forget choosing sides. They forge their own path!

Becoming legitimate fine artists is one I actually like, even though the idea spawned from a joke in conversation. Dr. D's the 'artist' (the face) and Shego is the 'muse' (the actual artist behind the pieces). Dr. D just takes credit and soaks up the attention. She lets him, she doesn't mind just being the young, attractive girlfriend hanging off his arm. It's cute watching him run his big mouth, trying to speak about things he doesn't understand. If she's really honest, things she barely comprehends, too.

I also need artist post-Graduation Drakken and Shego to do a Jackson Pollock-tier piece that's the aftermath of something stupid, and it sells for a ridiculous amount of money. Shego, Drakken says, that's it! Why didn't we (we - we is nice) think of this before? We'll become artists! Look at these shmucks, they're forking out the big bucks just to have a piece done by the heroes (heroes, the two of them, he's including her) of the world! Quick, you speak high society corporate, you tell them what it means! It's been a long time since college, and since college English classes, but she manages. The flowery language, the eloquence, the sheer and utter bull that she conjures for all these millionaire and billionaire snobs and art enthusiasts. They're sold, hook, line, sinker.

Shego does glass sculptures (thank you once again to @gogofordrakgo for thinking of this). A sculptor in general, probably...yes. I see the vision.

Man...maybe it's because I've associated Drakken with Picasso due to my last post, but he needs to be cubist. He has to. I can feel it. A fauvist, too (because he doesn't know you need to mix the paints beforehand and you shouldn't really be using them out of the tube. He only finds this out after an art critic gives a glowing review for a piece of his). Is this all one giant joke? Maybe. Does it amuse me? Yes. Do I like it? Yes.

Thanks to @flowery-laser-blasts' post about a dream, I also need Dr. Drakken to become a lawyer. It's important to me. He'll pass the bar exam, somehow, I say, speaking as if I know what the bar even is let alone what it entails.

Realistically, though...no, you know what. Shego and Drakken are lawyers, let them both be lawyers! They'll be lawyers for villains, give them a fighting chance! They got a law-firm, giant, horrifying billboards on highways and everything! They make Kim's job so much harder, not like villains weren't already escaping prison regularly! She's even considering changing her college major, whatever it is, to law, just to fight them! Oh my goodness, it'd be great.

[cuteniaarts]

What if… Suiren in Vaatu’s colours 😳👀

[kittykichi]

Where is Photoshop getting its AI training from?

Well, probably from scraping. And your stuff might be already in their database without your permission. Above is a screenshot of my Photoshop app with my original picture of my butterfly/moth pin with my watermark already baked in. I was trying out their generative AI tool that is integrated with their new version to see what kind of potential problems could arise and I found one immediately.

As you can see in the image, when I clicked generative fill and typed in "cabbage moth wing" it generated a slightly garbled flipped image of my pin. Where did it get this? Adobe states it's not using your images to train their AI. So let's believe that's true and that when I edited the original photo in Photoshop, it didn't use it from there. I also don't think used the pre-existing pixels to generate it. The generative AI is using a different source than the Content-Aware tool they have.

So it must be from where I've posted it online. After all those are keywords I use for my project. That would be Etsy, my Shopify, and my Instagram page. While nothing in their terms explicitly calls out selling your imagery to AI companies (as far as I've found in their legal pages) they could be. Or, my theory is, Adobe purchased data from people who were scraping the internet.

Currently Adobe prohibits you from using anything created fro their generative AI for commercial purposes (personal use only). It will take your AI text prompts. My worry is that they don't say they won't use it in the future and their already using a database that more than likely has illegally scraped data.

I have no advice except perhaps don't use their tool. It's pretty cool honestly, but we must simply make a moral choice here.

[heyitsphoenixx]

ever since i was a little [redacted] i always wanted to be a person who has a place in society

[thelooniemoonie]

hm. im feeling a bit conflicted tonight.

so i'm updating my redbubble right now, adding some of the art i made this year and what not, but given i made a lot of deltarune art this year i didnt upload much.

and the thing is? should i add my deltarune stuff to redbubble?

keep in mind this isn't a matter of demand, it's because a while back i remember toby fox mentioning in this tumblr post a while back specifically stating not to put undertale/deltarune stuff on mass-producing sites like redubble.

but when i go into redbubble's search, i see a whole bunch of artists posting deltarune stuff anyway?? has there been a change regarding toby fox's views or like. are all of these artists at legal risk now

[taviokapudding]

This year my dad found & gave me the Montblac my mom misplaced in 2016 that was supposed to be my deceased grandpa’s uni graduation gift; yesterday I got to draw for the first time in 3yrs without pain & inked a Diluc with the $500 pen

I ordered normal pens right after, it’s okay to laugh and cry

I know my old man is upstairs probably cackling because he used to doodle with his fountain pens. And also I’m relieved I can still draw & didn’t lose all my skills but the numbing in my shoulder has now evolved to soreness so I’ll try to draw once a week to build those muscles up again. Tldr my dominant arm is low key fighting the urge to slide outta my arm socket because in 2019 I fell and tore my trapezius muscle next to my spine with the hold the size of my hand. Tbh I only have a functioning right arm purely out of spite & self recovery since then & only until recently don’t suffer from the debilitating pain anymore but anyways.

The way I just 💀 upon realizing the ink refills are $20 & I bought 30 pens for the same price. And like y’all don’t understand, I re-inked the drawing 3 times to build up the depth between the Five & Below $5 color pencil layers. That’s like $4-$8 in total

I knew it was expensive but I never looked into it until my dad saw what I was doing and busted out laughing because apparently he did the same mistake when he graduated law school.

My first drawing in 3 yrs accidentally turned my sketchbook into an physical asset because of the fucking pen and I gotta save up to buy the refills down the road because THE INK WAS SO NICE TO DRAW WITH *punches air* I HATE THAT IT WAS A GOOD EXPERIENCE OH FUCK ME

[stsebastiens]

btw guys, thanks for reading my rant abt the musical stipend. one of the actors offered to give me her dad’s number, he’s a lawyer and he’s apparently so insulted by the way this director treated the cast/crew that hes willing to do pro-bono work for any of us lol. im gonna wait a few more days, email the director about my pay, and if she starts trying to stiff me we’ll see where we go from there. 

[hiimjustarandomidiot]

Howdy people! How are y'all? I'm great! I just finished doodling the Siblings! And I intend to show you :D

I'm gonna start wiiithhh... You!

Ahhh... Yes... Sunniva! My most skilled employee! In the circus, she had multiple roles! Acrobat, trapeze artist, tightrope walker... The extra arms come in an handy, y'know? A lovely person too, and beautiful looks! Wich is weird why she wasn't one of the audience's favorite, she is aurely mine! Well- I never knew who was the audience's favorite- almost nobody clapped at us, and when someone did, they always praised everyone equally! But it's better like this, I wouldn't want jeaulosy to creep in, and to rivalries to form in our little family!

Also a wonderful healer! Making an amazing job at stitching up her brother! On the topic of him, lemme tell ya a little thing or two about him!

Sullivan! Love him or hate him, I doubt he cares! Or he does, then you need to watch your words around him! He will use every chance, every little mistake you make, to remove you out of the picture!

You might ask, 'why does he seem so beaten up?' Well it is because, my lovely fella, he doesn't feel pain! And he cannot die, a bit overpowered much, right? And by being so, he tends to be a little... Reckless, with his words AND actions, and that causes him to lose a limb or two... But I love him as much as the others! Even if he isn't as social as his other brother... But it's okay! The stage isn't for everyone.

[gltzgghln]

grrr having mixed feelings on my blog being 18+ now cuz. my blog is for Everything and isn't inherently nsfw I just need to tag things more responsibility. also not everyone puts their age in their bio so it's a bit confuzzling

[embervoices]

Okay, yeah.

But also, no.

Money is exchanged for goods and services.

Money has never just been for acquiring ownership of things. There have always been many things we pay for that don't result in ownership, because you can't own an experience, and trying to own the source of the experience, when that source is a being, is slavery. (There's a whole other set of arguments to be had for when the source of an experience is a place.)

Arts, especially performing arts, are services.

The point is never the materials of the physical object, if any such object is even available. The point of art is the creation of the experience.

Yes, I do strongly prefer to own a hard copy of the arts I love, including recordings of performances! And I do think it's generally ethical to make ourselves hard copies of the things we have paid for access to, in order to retain that access in case something goes awry, even when it's not legal. That, too, is labelled "piracy" when it's not an explicit Fair Use exception. I'm all for pushing for Right To Repair, and the right to Archival Copies.

The thing is, if that's what we're doing, we did already pay the creators our share. And if that's what you mean by "piracy" then half my argument is already settled.

Because yeah, we know copyright and DRM are broken. But we still have to consider how artists and writers and performers and devs, and the various support crew that make their work available to us, get to live.

And yeah, the systems are massively fucked up that are putting more and more money into the pockets of people who aren't actually the ones making that content and getting it to us - "Billionaire" is being treated as an epithet now for a reason - but this argument doesn't point to a solution, because it's grounded in a fallacy.

It's not unreasonable to charge for services that don't result in ownership of goods.

The question isn't "Why should I have to pay for this if I don't end up owning anything?" the question is "Who is getting the money I am paying for this experience?"

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[hashtagloveloses]

The headline is pretty awful but this is one of those things that gets worse as you read it:

The 14-page petition, filed in Shelby County, Tennessee, probate court, alleges that Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy, who took Oher into their home as a high school student, never adopted him. Instead, less than three months after Oher turned 18 in 2004, the petition says, the couple tricked him into signing a document making them his conservators, which gave them legal authority to make business deals in his name.

"Michael Oher discovered this lie to his chagrin and embarrassment in February of 2023, when he learned that the Conservatorship to which he consented on the basis that doing so would make him a member of the Tuohy family, in fact provided him no familial relationship with the Tuohys."

Oher was a rising high school senior when he signed the conservatorship papers, and he has written that the Tuohys told him that there was essentially no difference between adoption and conservatorship. "They explained to me that it means pretty much the exact same thing as 'adoptive parents,' but that the laws were just written in a way that took my age into account," Oher wrote in his 2011 best-selling memoir "I Beat the Odds."

But there are some important legal distinctions. If Oher had been adopted by the Tuohys, he would have been a legal member of their family, and he would have retained power to handle his own financial affairs. Under the conservatorship, Oher surrendered that authority to the Tuohys, even though he was a legal adult with no known physical or psychological disabilities.

While the [movie] deal allowed the Tuohys to profit from the film, the petition alleges, a separate 2007 contract purportedly signed by Oher appears to "give away" to 20th Century Fox Studios the life rights to his story "without any payment whatsoever." The filing says Oher has no recollection of signing that contract, and even if he did, no one explained its implications to him.

The [movie] deal lists all four Tuohy family members as having the same representative at Creative Artists Agency, the petition says. But Oher's agent, who would receive movie contract and payment notices, is listed as Debra Branan, a close family friend of the Tuohys and the same lawyer who filed the 2004 conservatorship petition, the petition alleges. Branan did not return a call to her law office on Monday.

"Mike's relationship with the Tuohy family started to decline when he discovered that he was portrayed in the movie as unintelligent," Stranch said. "Their relationship continued to deteriorate as he learned that he was the only member of the family not receiving royalty checks from the movie, and it was permanently fractured when he realized he wasn't adopted and a part of the family."

For years, Oher has chafed at how "The Blind Side" depicted him, saying it hurt his football career and clouded how people view him. He has said that based on the film, some NFL decision-makers assumed he was mentally slow or lacked leadership skills.

"People look at me, and they take things away from me because of a movie," Oher told ESPN in 2015. "They don't really see the skills and the kind of player I am."

"Beyond the details of the deal, the politics, and the money behind the book and movie, it was the principle of the choices some people made that cut me the deepest."

[just-a-ghost00]

FS series : their profession & hobbies

Group 1 - Moonchild Ace of cups, 9 of pentacles, Ace of swords, 6 of wands, Page of swords

As for possible careers, I am picking up on the following elements. This person's career relies on two key factors : communication and sociability. With the two aces, it gives me the feeling of something either being very recent or very novel. So either this person has been doing this job since a short period of time or the job they are doing is something that has emerged within the recent times. So it's not something like being a doctor or a lawyer, as these professions have been existing for a while. With the page of swords, this person's work likely involves the use of technology, especially social media. The 9 of pentacles could show that they are working on their own. Either they are their own boss or their profession requires them to work alone most of the time. The 6 of wands denotes a sense of fame and support from people around them. So it is likely that your person is either well known in their community and appreciated for their work, or they have a huge following and interact with a lot of people. Based on all these information, I am deducting that your FS could work in either one of those positions :

community manager, freelance designer / artist

social media influencer, public speaker, spokesperson for a specific company

therapies that involve unconventional ways of healing (crystal healing, sound baths, ASMR, Reiki...)

being a celebrity of some kind, no matter their field of action (modeling, singing, acting, cooking...)

When it comes to hobbies, this person is definitely into creative activities. They could be into singing, writing, painting among other artistic centers of interest. This person may also enjoy spending time alone journaling, being in nature, exploring new places. They may be into horse riding. They could also enjoy learning and reading. This person may like to be the center of attention. In friend groups, they tend to be the one that makes everyone laugh. They could also enjoy competitive activities and combat sports. They are into self care. As communication seems to be very important to this person, they could also use social media as a way to creatively express themselves outside of their usual train of work. For instance, I'm picking up on someone doing Tiktok trends as a a hobby.

Group 2 - Angel The Sun, 4 of cups, knight of wands, 7 of swords, Hierophant

When it comes to your person's occupation, I get the feeling like their position is an important one within society. It is something that is viewed by society as essential to the community. It could be a profession that is very traditional or that was passed down to them from previous generations. With the Sun and the knight of wands, it feels like your person holds a position of authority or at least a strategical position within an institution that gives them a lot of power in terms of decision making and initiative. They could also have to move around a lot, whether on short or long distances. This is a profession that requires them to be flexible and confident but also to be comfortable with working on their own and thinking for themselves because I feel like this person doesn't get much help in their situation. There may be a lot of weight and responsibilities on their shoulders. With the 7 of swords, this gives me a feeling of secrecy surrounding this person's job. There are a lot of things that they cannot share about their work. Also, the 7 of swords talks about strategic planning. Their job requires a lot of thinking and anticipation. The Hierophant can represent big institutions such as religious groups, political groups, government, the army, the educational system, big companies and so on. Based on all the information provided by the cards, your FS could be working in either one of those fields :

medical field : any type of doctor, psychiatrists, forensics, working in a research lab

political/religious field : public figure working for the government, leader of a political group of any kind, spiritual guru, a person of authority within a religious group

teaching, working in the military, being an undercover agent, working for big companies that play an important role in a country's economy, baking and so on

As for hobbies, this person may enjoy traveling, running, horse riding, solving puzzles and riddles. Playing video games. Learning about other cultures and ethnicities. Learning about religious beliefs. Doing community work, praying. Spending time alone in nature away from civilisation. Camping. Trecking. Mountain climbing. Challenging activities. Being in sunny places overall. Going to exotic and remote places. Learning about History. Visiting museums and ruins. Stalking.

Group 3 - Maidens 6 of wands, Empress, 10 of wands, knight of cups, The World

Your person's occupation feels very busy and hectic. Their job is one that is very active and requires them to travel the world for some, or at least to move around within their country. For this group, it is clear that this person's job revolves around physical appearances, sensuality and promoting a positive image of life, of society, of health. This group has the most potential of having a FS that is famous to some extent. I see that your person has to work with a lot of people and is constantly on the go. They participate to various events, they take on many responsibilities and yet manage to be very successful despite the hectic and sometimes unpredictable conditions of their work. Beauty is a major theme here, as well as reputation. Thus, your FS could be working as an influencer, a model, an artist, a beauty aesthetician, a fashion designer, an event promoter, a journalist. Anything that would require them to be in the public eye and promote a certain life style or certain products. They could also be an entertainer, an athlete that is very present on social media, a personal trainer, a reporter. I'm also picking up on flight attendants, employees from big stores in airports or big hotels. Of course we can't omit everything revolving around the performing arts. Actors, comedians, dancers. We also have possibly strippers, dancers, show hosts and so on. Fitness instructors, yoga teachers. For some, your person could have a personal blog or website like a Patreon or an Only Fans account. They could also be a creator of some kind. Maybe they design their own clothes or jewelry for example. They may own a business revolving around cosmetics or a massage institute. The possibilities are endless. For some of you, I feel like your person could be having several occupations within the same field. For example, think of a model that could also be a fashion designer. Or an actor that could also be directing their own movies.

As for hobbies, again, beauty and physicality seem to be the key themes here. There's also traveling. This person is definitely a foody. They may also enjoy buying clothes, collecting objects. They may like to learn new languages or to cook specialities from various cultures. They could also enjoy doing DIYs. Knitting their own clothes, doing their home decor and so on. This person feels very venusian and earthy in their energy. So anything revolving around pleasure, the body, the earth. Gardening. Taking care of their body by doing gua sha, meditation, yoga. And so on.