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Welcome to my little corner of the Internet. My name is Bryan. I enjoy music, art, languages, travel, video games, memes, boys, and cats. 34 / gay area / he/they (pronouns) fandom blog avvie by @wuntrum

[apfelhalm]

Kimi & Bono being adorable [x]

[generaljenobi]

[fnordseer5]

getting home is so epic it's like lol i'm home

[depsidase]

[isuggestrevolution]

it should be an easy suggestion

[barefootboysblog]

Shawn Mendes

[puppiegracie]

I'm your favorite mutuals tolerated mutual

[knyavsk]

Me btw

[titleknown]

Times That Copyright Expansion Has Historically Fucked Over Artists On An Institutional Level:

Sampling rights becoming prohibitively expensive to use by small artists

Musicians being forced to sign over sampling rights to their record company, making any benefits they would hypothetically gain moot.

The Digital Milennium Copyright Act leading to the vidmaker-stomping nightmare that is ContentID

The DMCA leading to making it harder than ever to preserve media due to the way it prohibits tinkering with any locks the megacorps put on it, meaning it's way easier for artists' hard work to end up vaulted and lost.

The way basic chord progressions and musical styles have become copyrightable thanks to various lawsuits by the Marvin Gaye estate

The fact that the artists of the past used to be able to remix; adapt and iterate on art made within 56 years of them, likely created in their lifetimes, and now artists can only do those things with art produced nearly a century ago by people long dead.

New and independent artists being crowded out of the market by megacorp-owned IPs that would be public domain (and thusly convey less of an overwhelming advantage-via-marquee-value to megacorps) if the US had its pre-1976 copyright laws.

Times That Copyright Expansion Has Actually Materially Helped Artists On An Institutional Level:

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[ringneckedpheasant]

learned today that one of the hosts of a podcast I occasionally listen to was in the epstein files because of an incident wherein she was being sexually harassed/abused by a man who worked in her field -> she created a google doc for other women in said field to anonymously submit the names of men who had harassed/abused them -> one of these men sued for her for defamation even though she didn’t know him & didn’t even know who his victim was -> he couldn’t afford lawyers & reached out to epstein for funding -> epstein gave it to him -> after 5 years she was forced into a settlement & had to pay him over $100k. the way these predatory men find solidarity with each other is so so so profoundly evil

[northirish]

My tummy hurts, no doubt because of my many sins and transgressions

[ronununu]

[scaryhagmother]

White people be like: I have to take my french bulldog to the chiropractor

[scaryhagmother]

[scaryhagmother]

White people be like: I have to take my elderly cat to acupuncture

[francoisarnaudsource]

François Arnaud | Behind the scenes of "For When It's Hot"

[scribefindegil]

everyone who is not currently in the process of moving please pause and take a moment to be grateful that you're not currently in the process of moving

[tropiyas]

[sheepfilms]

[thecryptkeeper]

really dig these