The devil is in the details. Different contracts state different usages.

Often, I’m hired to make things for folk, and they own it entirely. I see these things out in the world, I sometimes see other artists hired to butcher it to fit a new purpose. But that’s OK, I account for that, and often I hand over the source files from the things I make… Layered documents etc.

However, there’s a really disturbing trend of large companies appropriating fan art and claiming that because they own the IP any derivatives belong to them too. This is far ickier.

The main thing though is credit. You’d think that giving a nod to the original artist would be nice. It costs nothing and can have a massive impact on their business.

Deep.

This is now classic stoner chat.

This dude took it for a spin over a decade ago…

No music on MTV

I’m sorry, “lenchings” is not a word in this puzzle, or the dictionary. Watch this ad to gain another credit and gave another guess.

I use both, but honestly, some mastodon users can’t help but be outright patronising and hostile to newcomers.

The whole “we don’t do that here” vibe clearly puts folk off. Weirdly, it isn’t the long term users that do that, bug more recent converts.

Why do you think that is?

It could just be the focal length of the camera lens too.

good explanation of focal length and face shape

It’s always been about context and provenance. Who took the image? Are there supporting accounts?

But also, it has always been about the knowlege that no one… Absolutely no one… Does lines of coke from a woven mat floor covering.

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Dan Simmons, Hyperion… Or Carrion Comfort.

I’d love to see some modern tries at Dashiel Hammet’s work too.

Seconded.

Fellow Amiga civ veteran, eh?

I blew most of my youth, and a chunk of my degree, on football manager too.

I regret nothing.

It’s like a strange survivor bias isn’t it?

Like people thinking we don’t need measels vaccines because people don’t die of measels any more.

Oh come on mate, I left an open goal for you there.

You could have scored an easy one by saying that their understanding of economic factors in the new media landscape is a relatively new field for study.

You could have talked about the aspects of social discourse and relationships between the maker and the viewer.

Fuck, you could have even framed what they do as artistic expression

But nope, you are too tied up in the misplaced metric of financial success.

And here’s why lectures about that would be next to useless… Their experiences are not transferable. You can’t copy what they do and expect success. That’s because novelty is a factor and you cannot teach that.

Compare that to the scientific method where everything relies on being exactly able to reproduce results.

Sure, there are plenty of purposes for academia, but what you suggest really isn’t one of them.

And their net contribution to human knowledge is…?

Excellent use of the rare but wonderful, “avocation”.

I’m gen-x and I am at the point where I don’t know if I say anything unironically any more.

(But you are spot on, slang is there, always, and it mutates as it is needed, but it isnt generational so much as sociopolitical and regional.)

Nah, its for “grizzled tanman”. You oldies just don’t get it.

That hair though.

C’mon man, it’s time to get a coverage appropriate cut or just shave it altogether.

He looks like a boiled sweet that’s been dropped on the carpet.

I once made a music video for Sony Universal.

They paid me £4k.

They liked it a lot and asked if I would do another. I asked if the fee was the same and they said I’d be doing it for exposure.

I told them I’m capable of exposing myself.

I stuck it to them.

I’m still poor, but at least I’m not working for it.

All my heart still belongs to the canon HV20 forum. It taught me how to film, it taught me how to chat to people in an online community.

It was never about a camcorder. It was about connection.

Plus, you could search for stuff on google and the forum results would pop up. Good look with discord doing that.

Mate, it’s just one accent. A mono-accent across an entire country. People from Glasgow and Edinburgh sound exactly the same… Can’t tell them apart. And if you go to Wick, right at the top, same. It’s wild.

I don’t want to have to add a /s but I just know some fud is going to comment “well ackshurly”.