adam_y

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 days ago

The devil is in the details. Different contracts state different usages.

Often, I'm hired to make things for folk, and they own it entirely. I see these things out in the world, I sometimes see other artists hired to butcher it to fit a new purpose. But that's OK, I account for that, and often I hand over the source files from the things I make... Layered documents etc.

However, there's a really disturbing trend of large companies appropriating fan art and claiming that because they own the IP any derivatives belong to them too. This is far ickier.

The main thing though is credit. You'd think that giving a nod to the original artist would be nice. It costs nothing and can have a massive impact on their business.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not viruses as such, at least according to the inventor of the term, rather they are already part of our inheritable structure, our DNA (so to speak) seeking new ways to be inherited.

We are our memes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I'm sorry, "lenchings" is not a word in this puzzle, or the dictionary. Watch this ad to gain another credit and gave another guess.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

It's always been about context and provenance. Who took the image? Are there supporting accounts?

But also, it has always been about the knowlege that no one... Absolutely no one... Does lines of coke from a woven mat floor covering.

don't do drugs kids.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Dan Simmons, Hyperion... Or Carrion Comfort.

I'd love to see some modern tries at Dashiel Hammet's work too.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Just realised I'm old enough to have seen this go through three cycles of internet memes.

It should have a sign on it like "est. 2002" or something.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Yeah, and fractions of that stone? Pounds.

So like 10 stone 5 pounds.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (32 children)

You know we use pounds as a weight measurement too, right?

Some countries use imperial measurements, others metric, but the UK enjoys both.

[–] [email protected] 91 points 2 months ago (3 children)

features with a high degree of customizability - you can swap out the back cover, and also attach things like a lanyard.

Ooooh, a lanyard strap... That's the sort of right to repair we've all been after.

/s

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