Edgar Melvin Dart
@headgearmfart.bsky.social
they/them. 20s. certified goober. story writer. music enjoyer (and player). video game player. secretly a goose. things may get nsfw 🔞
maybe she can learn to love rathood...
January 8, 2026 at 5:53 AM
maybe she can learn to love rathood...
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Like, my point isn't "copyright doesn't do enough to protect artists"; it's "copyright is literally designed to hurt artists". I absolutely do think a better world would be a world where everything is just public domain. That thread even mentions alternative propositions so artists get paid!
January 7, 2026 at 1:33 AM
Like, my point isn't "copyright doesn't do enough to protect artists"; it's "copyright is literally designed to hurt artists". I absolutely do think a better world would be a world where everything is just public domain. That thread even mentions alternative propositions so artists get paid!
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This example I gave in an earlier thread, but you can also point to like, networks cancelling animators' shows, and those animators just. Cannot make any content with their own characters any more! There will never be any more Infinity Train explicitly because of copyright
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if, say, Alex Hirsch tried to publish "fanfiction" of Gravity Falls on ao3 under his own name just because he felt like it, on his own time, he'd be sued into oblivion by the company that *owns his work* for *using his own characters*!)
January 7, 2026 at 1:32 AM
This example I gave in an earlier thread, but you can also point to like, networks cancelling animators' shows, and those animators just. Cannot make any content with their own characters any more! There will never be any more Infinity Train explicitly because of copyright
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love the lil Envy rattie roo! I have a goober who can turn into a rat + has a rat familiar and now I'm imagining their shenanigans... the sillies! ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ I love rats
January 8, 2026 at 1:41 AM
love the lil Envy rattie roo! I have a goober who can turn into a rat + has a rat familiar and now I'm imagining their shenanigans... the sillies! ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ I love rats
I realized it was Envy after I looked through everyone and went "wait, where's Envy?" (■_■¬) found her!
January 7, 2026 at 12:08 AM
I realized it was Envy after I looked through everyone and went "wait, where's Envy?" (■_■¬) found her!
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I actually talk about this in a much older thread! I don't think plagiarism and copyright violation are always the same thing. James Somerton taking other people's writing without credit and lying that it was his writing is bad for reasons beyond "who owns the IP".
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(Also notably plagiarism and copyright violation aren't always the same thing: plagiarism = lying about who created something. Taking credit for work that isn't yours. Which is wrong! But different from copyright as a property claim. You can maintain honest attribution without ownership.)
January 6, 2026 at 11:05 PM
I actually talk about this in a much older thread! I don't think plagiarism and copyright violation are always the same thing. James Somerton taking other people's writing without credit and lying that it was his writing is bad for reasons beyond "who owns the IP".
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