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On another note, I designed this postcard for AnimeNYC https://www.instagram.com/p/BpviEnsAtpQ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=6i8as51zy1l2

...as a copyright minimalist, it really pisses me off that so few people in my corner bother to try and come up with very good solutions to "How do artists make a living."

Like… so many of them just fucking default to "use donation models supported by true fans uwu" and while that can work, even most of the top fucking eschelon of creators on Patreon are basically making poverty wages, and most people who make a living have to treat it as one of many income streams, because again, it's not fucking enough.

Not at the scale artists need, and the way some people in "my" corner ignore that to moralize while failing to come up with better solutions infuriates me.

Like, you'd be surprised that I could be called relatively conservative on my current demands wrt copyright reduction, specifically for reduction back to 56 years in the US (Life + 50 in the countries where applicable) and massive expansion of fair use.

This is because these are things that are doable now without fucking over artists.

I want more, but I am painfully aware that'd be a much bigger project because you'd need to overhaul so much about how we economically handle art as a society, and it pisses me off how nobody's looking for those solutions beyond platitudes!

I've seen a few decent ideas. A "Mario Kart" version of copyright, where the larger in scale a works' rightsholder is the less protection it gets, was suggested by one person, I'd say mutually-supporting collectives based around Creative Commons works (Think akin to the SCP Foundation) would be a good start, as would long-term income-y government art grants that require the stuff produced under them to go into the Public Domain.

Even beyond that, the Peer Production License is also a great way to open up your ideas as well without making them vulnerable to corporate exploitation, that's worth looking into.

But like, we need more of those, and it does piss me off that people supposedly in "my" corner call artists entitled babies for pointing out the problem here!

It's the big obstacle to actually getting shit done, stop calling artists fascist for wanting moral rights Patricia and come up with something that actually works!

I don’t feel like drawing anymore so I’m just gonna upload photography from now on April fools got you xd https://www.instagram.com/p/BvuHyfUArrK/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=zaaorop6h7g2

“Welcome Back” crewneck is dropping later this month via Shop-Jammo.com ( @_jammo_ )

I’m not giving up yet!! It’s just the beginning

Please follow that account for any updates regarding my apparel/shop project from now ~ 🎸

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So I’ve sort of incidentally ended up making an album. Mot of the bulk of this (compositionally) has been completed for a while, but messing with levels and such for a while. I’m no professional so this is pretty lo-fi; made from my bedroom out of chance, but it’d be cool if some of you guys would check it out. There’s some love put into this for sure! Ah, and also: the last track happened totally incidentally; it isn’t masterpiece or something necessarily extraordinary or better than the others, but I had been contemplating “what’s missing… what’s missing…” for a while now, scrapping other songs and even thinking I wasn’t going to put out an album entirely because something just felt off. My buddy Mat and I were messing around at guitar center and as usually, I obsessively recorded the few bars of piano he played with me lightly playing rhythm guitar under. I think it’s one of those songs that isn’t the best on the album, but sort of makes the album, if that makes sense. Anyhow, thank you for the support always and I’m more than grateful if you even take a look at one of these songs!

#music#lofi#shoegaze#ambient#synth https://www.instagram.com/p/BpxzBwsANcp/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=z3pzmtz29cco

well anyway. the copyright system exists to commodify art and expression and process it into more money for larger companies, and it is actively detrimental to efforts for preservation, open education, and creation. everyone reading this is morally obligated to hoard and share data because we live in a world that is hostile to the idea that books or music or movies or scholarship have inherent value independent of a DRM stamp and ticket price. btw fuck hachette, harpercollins, wiley and penguin random house.

Roasted this man for coming for me on TikTok for criticizing publishing's exploitative payment structures but thought what I had to say was worth posting here as well

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