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Ilovethebomb,

A bizarre number of them are about Taylor Swift though.

Ilovethebomb,

Torque to yield, then back a quarter turn.

Ilovethebomb,

I want to know the context behind this.

Lemmy: fails the vibe check (lemmy.zip)

Zero chill factor. Every post has to have a dissertation under it explaining how its problematic. Reddit/Twitter reposts that make you nod your head in agreement get mindlessly upvoted. Even communities that should be more off-color get relegated to the most normie shit possible. Lemmy feels homogenous as fuck. /rant

Ilovethebomb,

Check my post history and decide for yourself.

I’d really rather not.

Ilovethebomb,

Personally, I’d find it easier to just move to another instance than do all that.

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Even if it was just a problem you made and you fixed but nothing actually changes.

Isn’t this half of what some IT people do?

Ilovethebomb,

I realize this won’t be a popular view, but I don’t think you should be able to use, and profit from, a character someone else created, regardless of how long ago they were created. The original work becoming public domain, sure, but write your own characters.

Ilovethebomb,

There’s a difference between getting inspiration from something, and downright stealing it.

Ilovethebomb,

I imagine saying those people are fictional characters would make some people angry.

Ilovethebomb,

Mostly seeing the appalling job some people have done adapting a former beloved character, or the inevitable NSFW adaptations.

Imagine someone writing a story where, for example, Christopher Robin kills someone, and profiting from it? Would you be happy having your childhood memories of reading Winnie the Pooh tainted like that?

Ilovethebomb,

The alphabet is free and open source.

Ilovethebomb,

Interesting angle.

Ilovethebomb,

Meaning you can freely reproduce the original work, but you cannot create a new piece of work using the original characters.

Meaning, in the case of Winnie the Pooh, the original books and associated works are free to be used and shared, but you could not create a new book or comic without the permission of the estate of AA milne.

Ilovethebomb,

I really don’t think this is a difficult concept to grasp, to be honest.

The original work becomes public domain, and can be freely reproduced.

The characters therein are, and remain, the property of the author’s estate, and cannot be used in new work without their permission.

We are already seeing this in the real world, where Disney cartoons are public domain, but the characters, having been used in consecutive works, cannot be used by anyone other than them.

This allows a published work to be used for generations to come, but doesn’t allow an author’s legacy to be tarnished by less than quality adaptations.

Ilovethebomb,

What’s your point here, exactly?

Ilovethebomb,

You’re the second person to say something like this. Suggesting the characters in the Bible are fictional will make some people very angry.

Ilovethebomb,

There would always be the option for an author, or their estate, to allow such a work.

Clearly labelling whether a work was by the original author is only fair, of course.

Ilovethebomb,

Who was it? What was their name?

Ilovethebomb,

My point was, saying Jesus was a fictional character would make people angry. Using him in a work of fiction is not the same thing.

Ilovethebomb,

You can’t copyright a real person, obviously. A work about them you can.

Ilovethebomb,

Squick. Squick. Squick.

Ilovethebomb,

How else would you achieve this?

Ilovethebomb,

Not having a more senior person to go to when you get stuck could be a problem.

Ilovethebomb,

Wut?

Ilovethebomb,

A man walking by loudly said “oh my gosh” when this happened.

So glad they included this vital piece of context.

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