I really agree with you about this topic. don �t worry... You haven �t done enything wrong.

Greetings from Costa Rica!

Diego

Let me think about all these ownership issues while I write. I understand you in a way but, at the same time, I think you are not quite right. Copying is copying, and duplicating a picture sounds like it, even if you have the highest aims in mind. I mean, you can copy as long as you create, not just to benefit (or provide a benefit). Why not create your own pictures? (I have no doubt whatsoever that you have the capacity to do it). We can play by the rules (even if we don �t like them all) when we want to be supported by the community, or we can break the rules but, in this case, we can �t expect benevolence: one seeks changes, so one must accept the challenge and take the risk. Copying Picasso or Van Goth means re-creation. I don �t quite think Thishlegirl designs can be compared.

I was just thinking out loud...

I  love your site and your wonderful contributions to this community. 

Thank you.

some things are worth defending, but not all. I guess this is what I mean.

LOL

I don �t know...maybe we should all move to Australia. Ed

I like to joke with my students that I was granted copyright on the English language so they had better watch what they say to me...and to be honest, the Chinese are very keen on this aspect...Thus they press for more use of their own language....

 

Anways, yeah.."Copyright", intellectual property, and the rise of entertainment technology and social media is beyond insane..It is a fanatcism being legitimized by judcial precedents now. My feeling is that anything you create..is original...You, yourself, are an original...doesn �t matter that you are a human being..or a girl..or what ever generalization that is offereed..Mark Twain once wrote, "Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one".....Genetically, and in space and in time, there will only ever be one of you...So even if you sing the words of another song �s exactly...It is still the original of you doing so...Nobody else can be you at the same time in this life. So all that copyright stuff is hogwash....The difference comes when people start asking money for their creations...Then, you get into all the legal speak of "derivatives"...Every single work of creation on this planet is a derivative....But lately in the intellectual property rights laws, there �s been a growing trend of trying to secure proprieties far beyond reasonable measures...

 I first ran into the infamy when I began my career as a folk musician...I emmulated Bob Dylan..like he emmulated Woody Guthrie..But Woody Guthrie didn�t have a million dollar contract or a billion dollar fan base...I was more like Woody Guthrie..I built houses during the day and played my unpracticed song in the night.....Bob Dylan basically stole a man �s identity...and put his copyright on it....Had he not emmulated Woody Guthrie to the degree that he did he would have never been noticed as a songwriter...Once he got in the door of the New York elite...He and his management slammed the door on anyone doing the same...So to attempt to do what he did, will now cost you tributary monies or royalties, which only shore up his status and wealth....or obscence legal costs...if you are pecieved a threat to his markets...That �s how Dylan ruined the folk music scene....And how kings are made in the modern age and thus, the antithesis and destruction of the U.S.....The folk music scene in the US used to be much more like this site here (but without all the mechanical surveillence)...But a snake in the grass is always seen too late. 

 

 Had the Mona Lisa been painted today...There would be no room to even suggest that it belongs to everybody...

 

Don�t let the bastards grind you down....