Kind of Screwed (2011)
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Kind of Screwed (2011)
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Re: Kind of Screwed (2011)
#2If he'd created an anonymous persona for his pixel artwork, Maisel would have been left pounding sand. So if there's no reason to link stuff to your meatspace identity, why risk it?
Re: Kind of Screwed (2011)
#3If he'd created an anonymous persona for his pixel artwork, Maisel would have been left pounding sand. So if there's no reason to link stuff to your meatspace identity, why risk it?
This. But in a softcore version of the same way that you shouldn't be using your real name while advocating for gay rights in Saudi Arabia: it's a solution eliding a larger problem.
Re: Kind of Screwed (2011)
#4If he'd created an anonymous persona for his pixel artwork, Maisel would have been left pounding sand. So if there's no reason to link stuff to your meatspace identity, why risk it?
This. But in a softcore version of the same way that you shouldn't be using your real name while advocating for gay rights in Saudi Arabia: it's a solution eliding a larger problem.
Back in the day, when I was discovering Usenet, it was common advice. But of course, tools for ~anonymity were primitive then. No Tor. No VPNs. Remailers were about it.
Re: Kind of Screwed (2011)
#5If he'd created an anonymous persona for his pixel artwork, Maisel would have been left pounding sand. So if there's no reason to link stuff to your meatspace identity, why risk it?
How do you mean exactly, can you explain pls? If I create a fake person with Gmail account and tumblr blog, this fake persona posts the artwork, I use it (crediting the fake persona), they can't sue me. But they can problably force me to take down the image anyway?
Re: Kind of Screwed (2011)
#6If he'd created an anonymous persona for his pixel artwork, Maisel would have been left pounding sand. So if there's no reason to link stuff to your meatspace identity, why risk it?
How do you mean exactly, can you explain pls? If I create a fake person with Gmail account and tumblr blog, this fake persona posts the artwork, I use it (crediting the fake persona), they can't sue me. But they can problably force me to take down the image anyway?
> ... I use it (crediting the fake persona) ...
No. There is no "I use it". Only the fake persona does.
> But they can problably force me to take down the image anyway?
If you created an anonymous Tor onion site, they'd have a hard time forcing you. But of course, then it's less accessible. So you might just use hosting that caters to spammers and worse.
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#8So where is the list of people who give money to Jay Maisel so I can opt not to do business with them anymore? Do you really change anyone's opinion on most issues other than giving a hint which behaviors are unprofitable because they piss people off?
How about a ublock origin filter that auto removes anything created by the artist? Obviously no content filter belongs in default but it could be offered.
Re: Kind of Screwed (2011)
#9Fair Use is not a right; it's an affirmative defense (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_defense) that needs to be used in court.
Here's a recent (long) video on fair use that I enjoyed, and might be interesting for some of you here who are interested in this sort of thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyucXC6pWug
Re: Kind of Screwed (2011)
#10Not that I agree with lawyers suing over this, but one problem is that the pixel-art nature of the Miles Davis cover is very subtle rather than obvious chunky pixels as is typically done. At one level I applaud that as historically accurate; graphics even in the 1980s weren't as awful as a lot of pixelart implies, but on the other hand I can understand the argument that the pixel art and the original were too close.