Behind the scenes of Episode 2 from Molly!
- “I need to figure out how to start this.”
- “‘I want to have your babies?’”
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In French, you don’t really say “I miss you.” You say “tu me manques,” which is closer to “you are missing from me.”
I love that. “You are missing from me.” You are a part of me, you are essential to my being. You are like a limb, or an organ, or blood. I cannot function without you.
in American we say “do fries come with that shake” when someone with a cute patootie walks by
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I never understood why there’s a law about doing things like writing a song about the Hunger Games, or writing a book in the same universe as Harry Potter and making money off of it. Its free advertising and it’s also how legacies start. You know King Arthur and Robin…
Uh, King Arthur and Robin Hood are legends that have been circulating since the Middle Ages, and therefore we have no idea who the original author of such stories is, if there even was an original author (see: oral tradition). Before, ah, around the Enlightenment era there was no concept of “copyright” or “ownership” of plays and stories. Because of that, people like Shakespeare could have their works “stolen” from them and money made off them. (Note that Shakespeare is in the public domain today.) In fact, in ancient times there was not even a concept of “authorship” at all. “Homer” might be the author/originator of The Illiad/The Odyssey or he may be taking credit for someone else, which was perfectly valid back then. Other ancient works may have been “written” by a person, but they were actually physically written by a student or scribe (see: Socrates/Plato).
In the modern era we have this concept of “individualism” or that individuals deserve credit for their own work. (Both systems have their advantages and disadvantages, but that’s a talk for another day). Therefore we have laws of copyright, which protect authors from plagiarism or from plain theft. Now, there is a Fair Use clause in copyright, but you’d have to check back with me in 4 years for an explanation of what exactly that entails (I should hopefully be out of law school by then ;)).In summation, copyright exists to protect authors. Plagiarism has and will continue to happen. Authors can and do lose profit from people who break copyright. J.K. Rowling and Stephen King aside, most authors cannot afford to lose profit.
And there is your brief history of copyright.
HELLO. thank you.
I get a little nerdy about copyright. haha i love it. Thanks for explaining it better than i!
Some quick landscape paintings from one of my small moleskin sketchbooks.
(Huntington Gardens will not allow you to bring in paints unless you join their artists guild and pay hundreds of dollars… hence the caption on that one.)
HOLY BALLS THESE ARE AWESOME!
you said it! WOWY
I never understood why there’s a law about doing things like writing a song about the Hunger Games, or writing a book in the same universe as Harry Potter and making money off of it. Its free advertising and it’s also how legacies start. You know King Arthur and Robin Hood, EVERY remaining work we have of them is a “fanfic” of sorts. Nobody knows where the first one came from and the people who wrote these “fanfics” made money off of them! Sherlock Holmes too, there’s all these movies and other adaptations of Sherlock Holmes. Will there ever be more adaptations of Harry Potter? I mean there’s the musicals, but they have to volunteer and do it all for free because of liscensing things.
Its the idea that the others can be infringing on something that was the author’s creation. That can range anywhere from taking away money from the original author, to authors not wanting their characters used in ways they don’t like. Some authors really don’t like fan fiction at all. Others encourage it. The only reason there are movies and adaptions off of Sherlock and Robin Hood is because the copyright law for those works don’t eist anymore (they passed a certain date).
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i’m on an AVA kick sorry guys!
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