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"Copyright"?..."Infringement"?
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"Copyright"?..."Infringement"?

Copyright Infringement is stupid. I'm not saying that people can't take credit for their work, I'm saying if someone wants to draw whatever the fuck they want, that's their business. Just because you come up with an Idea (that originally came from elements of the world outside your mind) doesn't make it "yours." If so, then it would be property; and what is "property"? Property is theft!


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Charles Manson Wrote:“Look down at me and you see a fool;
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look straight at me and you see yourself”
HeartofShadows Wrote:"Life is nothing more than a druggie trying to get their quick fix of happiness while dealing with the harsh withdrawal of reality"
Osip Mandelstam Wrote:"I divide all of world literature into authorized and unauthorized works. The former are all trash; the latter--stolen air. I want to spit in the face of every writer who first obtains permission and then writes." The Fourth Prose, 1930.
Lukas Foss Wrote:That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.
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Re: "Copyright"?..."Infringement"?

Sociopath Wrote:Copyright Infringement is stupid. I'm not saying that people can't take credit for their work, I'm saying if someone wants to draw whatever the fuck they want, that's their business. Just because you come up with an Idea (that originally came from elements of the world outside your mind) doesn't make it "yours." If so, then it would be property; and what is "property"? Property is theft!


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Sociopath Wrote:Just because you come up with an Idea (that originally came from elements of the world outside your mind) doesn't make it "yours." If so, then it would be property; and what is "property"? Property is theft!
cool story bro
"Property is theft", as I see it, applies to companies/the government taking huge amounts of land, etc all for themselves

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Bravo. Something intelligent coming from TA!
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Property is theft? Anarchist quote, so it doesn't matter
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Lunatic Wrote:
Sociopath Wrote:Just because you come up with an Idea (that originally came from elements of the world outside your mind) doesn't make it "yours." If so, then it would be property; and what is "property"? Property is theft!
cool story bro
"Property is theft", as I see it, applies to companies/the government taking huge amounts of land, etc all for themselves
No, it applies to ALL property, whether material or in thought, is theft.

spacejunkie Wrote:Property is theft? Anarchist quote, so it doesn't matter
Best be joking, bitch.

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#HashTagsAreForIdiots

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Max Stirnir Wrote:"In the time of spirits thoughts grew till they overtopped my head, whose offspring they yet were; they hovered about me and convulsed me like fever-phantasies -- an awful power. The thoughts had become corporeal on their own account, were ghosts, e. g. God, Emperor, Pope, Fatherland, etc. If I destroy their corporeity, then I take them back into mine, and say: "I alone am corporeal." And now I take the world as what it is to me, as mine, as my property; I refer all to myself." The Ego and Its Own, pg. 15
Charles Manson Wrote:“Look down at me and you see a fool;
look up at me and you see a god;
look straight at me and you see yourself”
HeartofShadows Wrote:"Life is nothing more than a druggie trying to get their quick fix of happiness while dealing with the harsh withdrawal of reality"
Osip Mandelstam Wrote:"I divide all of world literature into authorized and unauthorized works. The former are all trash; the latter--stolen air. I want to spit in the face of every writer who first obtains permission and then writes." The Fourth Prose, 1930.
Lukas Foss Wrote:That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.
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Not even trying to be subtle anymore troll? Smart decision, seeing as you weren't any good at it.

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I divide all of world literature into authorized and unauthorized works. The former are all trash; the latter--stolen air. I want to spit in the face of every writer who first obtains permission and then writes.
--Osip Mandelstam, The Fourth Prose, 1930.

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