Six fucking months. Make your money, own your IP. Then let competitors/fans/copyslop have its way with it. I don't care about the profit lifetime, I don't give a single shit. Lawsuits are too damaging to let them be levied against random people and companies who aren't at fault. If it's too confusing to the consumer then maybe you can copyright the name of it or the creators name until there's no longer significant work being done on the original IP so it's not so easy to trick consumers or something.
Six months until someone can sell their version of Taylor Swift's most recent hit word for word and note for note. Six months until you can make money off of your animated show Doc and Marty. Six months before you can cash in on your book "Hairy Pooter and the Sorcerers Stones" that's just OG HP with the names swapped.
Ideas will be stolen and fame will go to the wrong people. Small creators will suffer. Much like happens anyway but people won't be sued to kingdom come because mickey mouse was on a shirt that an extra wore in the shoot that made it into their indie film that blew up or whatever.
Got an amber alert the other day. It linked to twitter to see more info including pics of the victim. I don't have an account and couldn't view it on mobile without jumping through a bunch of hoops. Wonder how much less effective it makes those alerts that you have to have an acct to see who was fucking kidnapped.
Meh. I have a pretty detached perspective on socials. I like it here and I'm fine with it being a safe space or even an echo chamber and I really don't care too much about the upvote downvote stuff aside from it potentially affecting reach. We tend to pile on whichever direction those are trending because we're dumb humans. What I like is that I can dive into the fecal hell of other media and wash off my eyes a little here. Usually. Something that's always been aggravating about the fascists is that they need zero proof before they run with an idea to the point of actual insanity based on an uttered lie from one of their bootbearers. I'd like to hold the rest of us to a much higher standard but, you're right, it really is like we'll take any headline or statement we don't have an issue with as true without a second thought.
Is lemmy just the new source of bad fucking info here? I struggle through the goddamn ads and trash and see the same voice that orange weirdo uses for everyone. It's not a slow Newsweek.
I wanted to be circumcised so bad one day I said "fuck it" and bent nearly in half and bit my foreskin off. One bite. Ate it too.
Problem is, you get a taste for it. When I hear a man is uncircumcised I seduce him, get him in the bedroom and bite his off too. I'm wanted if ninety countries and am the only person permanently banned from Burning Man.
Circumcise your child or he may become like me too. Or worse, in 18 years he may become my victim...
My history lobe is a bit rusty but after emancipation, black folks grew a lot of watermelon because it was easy and cheap to grow and it sold well. It was a symbol of the time as well as former slaves reaching financial independence. As usual, shitheads will turn any symbol against it's people as a tool of oppression (see DEI as a recent example) so watermelon was associated with black people in the worst way. Now the racism has died down a lot but to this day some people will say (and think) that black people love watermelon and think of it as a poverty food.
It goes way deeper but that should be the semi-accurate gist.
Six fucking months. Make your money, own your IP. Then let competitors/fans/copyslop have its way with it. I don't care about the profit lifetime, I don't give a single shit. Lawsuits are too damaging to let them be levied against random people and companies who aren't at fault. If it's too confusing to the consumer then maybe you can copyright the name of it or the creators name until there's no longer significant work being done on the original IP so it's not so easy to trick consumers or something.
Six months until someone can sell their version of Taylor Swift's most recent hit word for word and note for note. Six months until you can make money off of your animated show Doc and Marty. Six months before you can cash in on your book "Hairy Pooter and the Sorcerers Stones" that's just OG HP with the names swapped.
Ideas will be stolen and fame will go to the wrong people. Small creators will suffer. Much like happens anyway but people won't be sued to kingdom come because mickey mouse was on a shirt that an extra wore in the shoot that made it into their indie film that blew up or whatever.