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rinkushaw · 27 days

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Why copyright registration is important?

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legalcy · 3 months

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patntech · 5 months

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kemetic-dreams · 4 months

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In Jamaican dancehall music, a riddim is the instrumental accompaniment to a song and is synonymous with the rhythm section. Jamaican music genres that use the term consist of the riddim plus the voicing (vocal part) sung by the deejay. A given riddim, if popular, may be used in dozens—or even hundreds—of songs, not only in recordings but also in live performances.

Since the 1970s, riddims have accompanied reggae music and through the 1980s, more widely known as dancehall. As seen in dancehall music, there is a voicing part – sung by the DJ – over some riddim that has probably been widely used in many other songs. There is a unique establishment in the combination of riddims and voicing.

By 1993, Jamaica finally established a copyright act, but producers still face difficulty in establishing profit. Through proper registration, many artists now work on negotiating their royalties and taking it more seriously. The unique nature of dancehall and riddims have been highly influential on the numerous remixes that now circulate throughout R&B and hip-hop music.

Some classic riddims, such as "Nanny Goat" and "Real Rock" both produced by Clement "Coxsone" Dodd, are essentially the accompaniment tracks of the original 1960s reggae songs with those names. Since the 1980s, however, riddims started to be originally composed by producers/beatmakers, who give the riddims original names and, typically, contract artists to voice over them. Thus, for example, "Diwali" is the name not of a song, but of a riddim created by Steven "Lenky" Marsden, subsequently used as the basis for several songs, such as Sean Paul's "Get Busy" and Bounty Killer's "Sufferer."

"Riddims are the primary musical building blocks of Jamaican popular songs.... At any given time, ten to fifteen riddims are widely used in dancehall recordings, but only two or three of these are the now ting (i.e., the latest riddims that everyone must record over if they want to get them played in the dance or on radio).... In dancehall performing, those whose timing is right on top of the rhythm are said to be riding di riddim.

The bass culture of Jamaican sonic sensibilities is characterized with less emphasis on melody and large emphasis on the drum beats and low frequency bass vibrations to draw attention to the social grounding to the culture. These aspects of Jamaican music are expressed visually through the Dancehall choreography and its African inspired folk traditions, which emphasize earthly connection through flat-footed stamping and “bumper-grinding sexually explicit choreography, where the bass note is struck by the body itself—displaying its fecundity and celebrating its fertility”. This bass culture is also embodied sonically by the music's heartbeat, the bass lines often described as riddims, produced in the late 1960s and early 1970s. These riddims offer a sonic foundation on top of which different other sounds are incorporated to form innumerable versions.

African in origin (see clave (rhythm) and bell pattern), riddims can generally be categorized into three types. One of the oldest types of riddim is the classical riddim providing roots reggae, dub, and lovers rock with instrumentals, such as Bam Bam, produced by Sly & Robbie. The second type is the ragga riddim backing raggamuffin and dancehall songs, such as the Juice riddim, produced by Richard "Shams" Browne. The third type is the digital riddim, such as Sleng Teng, Punaany Riddim & Duck Riddim produced by King Jammy.

A number of riddims take their name and influence from African-Jamaican religious drumming such as the Kumina riddim, created in 2002 by Sly and Robbie, and Burru.

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clarenecessities · 1 month

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so, hey. I haven't updated you guys on the situation with Scott and Ethan in a while. it's been a very eventful 10 days.

You can see Ethan's updates here but I will be offering my own biased perspective and summary.

i'm sure my mother would want me to clarify that i did not advise anybody legally, nor did i tell anyone to bring a lawsuit, but. i did lay out my understanding of the law as it pertains to Ethan's case & tell anyone who would listen that i would have sued months ago

and uh as i provided ample sources and a laconic summary of the fair use doctrine and alternatives to federal court, i may have contributed to Ethan's decision to file with the CCB :3 which is (to be overly brief) like small claims court for copyright infringement specifically.

nobody has said so explicitly, so i do have some plausible deniability. but if by some grave miscarriage of justice Ethan were to lose a single one of these claims y'all Know I'd do my damnedest to recoup the man's losses anyway so i feel very comfortable in saying SPITE WORKS!!! THAT'S THE POWER OF SPITE-FUELED RESEARCH BABEY! THIS IS A WIN FOR CLARE!!

even the very worst case scenario for Ethan is a win anyway; the CCB's awards are capped at 30k, but since he's a much, much kinder person than I am he elected to pursue their "smaller claims" options, which further caps it at only 5k.

and let me tell you. the statutory damages alone would cost Scott upwards of $180,000 in federal court (not even counting the libel), so if he doesn't take this case (participation in a CCB case is voluntary for both parties) he is a fucking idiot. But I guess we kind of knew that already.

Let's see. So, Ethan started getting his copyrights registered last weekend (another benefit of the CCB; registrations can be filed concurrent to submitting your claims, though I don't think I told Ethan that) like right after my last post on the matter here. He submitted proof of his intent to bring legal action to YouTube, who can't actually apply strikes until a decision is reached, though those videos are sort of in purgatory.

Meanwhile, that allowed Scott to begin posting content again. He immediately abused that power. On the 23rd, Scott posted a fourth (4th!) defamatory video, whose thumbnail looked like this:

That action figure is his childhood OC, which he put into the MOTUC line. In addition to his literal, actual face. But don't worry, not his name! That was a DC Classics exclusive 🙃

For those of you that are unfamiliar: That's the license plate from Better Call Saul.

He made a bunch of really, painfully wrong assertions that I tried to write up again just now and bro I can't. It is fucking Cringe. I can't. He did claim he had a lawyer, which as I told him following the second defamatory Community Note, is grounds for him to fire that fucking lawyer.

Ethan did a second interview with Dad-At-Arms basically updating people on the situation, letting everyone know he was going to take things to court. That went up the 24th.

On the 25th, Scott posted another Community Note, this time doing a little victory lap, concluding, "So much content coming to ya! It is great to be on the air again!" and resuming his regularly scheduled posting for the remained of the week.

Then along came Monday.

Every single one of Scott's videos was privated, including the advertisements for his consulting firm and stupid bullshit AI comic.

Well--come to find out, he emailed Ethan right around when everything went dark saying he was "truly" and "sincerely" sorry for everything, and "never meant to create a fight" between them and that it was "never intentional".

"To make things right I am going to halt any videos and take down what I have. I hope this will make it right and restore your site to its full capacity."

Which like, alright, I try to be a little more level-headed in spaces these creeps might see, since they're already fucking wilding about every other aspect of my identity and personality. But the fucking BALLS on this guy!! The fucking audacity!!!!! MONTHS of claiming he was being BLACKMAILED and HARASSED, giving Ethan's identity to one of the biggest pieces of shit I've ever seen in the fandom (and that is saying something) and then his thousands of subscribers?? Telling those people really really obviously fake bullshit to make himself seem like the super reasonable victim and not the perpetrator of--ballpark, 'cause I don't know who may have granted him permission--five to ten thousand copyright infringements?

And "to make things right"!!!!! Right for whom, Scott!!!

I've been assuming he finally talked to a lawyer, because even with receiving notice of Ethan's intent to take him to court, I just don't believe we'd see this complete a 180 in him without the advice of counsel. Whom I do not envy right now, he's shot himself in the foot at every fucking opportunity. I doubt they told him to private everything, since a jury at least might construe that as hiding evidence (there are no juries CCB proceedings) but he's a big fucking idiot. Of course he'd panic and try to hide everything.

Case in point, this morning he unprivated everything. And then just unlisted it. Presumably because he realized he'd broken his embeds across every website out there, including his own (not that that ever got him to fix his LinkedIn button...). He did delete all of the Community Notes about Ethan though, just for good measure :) Still absolutely no public word from him since last week.

I have receipts on all the libel saved in multiple locations, but I do appreciate him un-privating some of his videos for me. Gonna make documenting those much easier 😏

i had a second post up on the forums but it's being weird about copy/pasting into tumblr, I'll see about that tomorrow ig. And I'm working on a third summarizing my case law research. HUGE win for me today in that the finding which most directly contradicted my arguments was actually reverse on appeal in 2022 so I'm sitting real pretty, citation-wise. Very smug, very petty. Feeling absolutely great.

#fiq debacle

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itznarcotic · 11 months

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Reddit is fighting another attempt by film companies to unmask anonymous Reddit users who discussed piracy.

The same companies lost a previous, similar motion to identify Reddit users who wrote comments in piracy-related threads. Reddit avoided revealing the identities of eight users by arguing that the First Amendment protected their right to anonymous speech.

Reddit is seeking a similar outcome in the new case, in which the film companies' subpoena to Reddit sought "Basic account information including IP address registration and logs from 1/1/2016 to present, name, email address and other account registration information" for six users who wrote comments on Reddit threads in 2011 and 2018. Reddit wrote in a court filing on Wednesday:

[Plaintiffs' Motion seeks to unmask six anonymous Reddit users that Plaintiffs assume to have committed copyright infringement using Grande, an Internet service provider (ISP). If these Reddit users did engage in copyright infringement on Grande's networks, then Plaintiffs hope to learn whether the users were drawn to Grande for the ease of infringement. Weeks ago, this Court denied a nearly identical motion by these same Plaintiffs... But rather than returning with better facts capable of meeting the applicable First Amendment standard, Plaintiffs here offer worse facts–expressly acknowledging that they have no need to identify these Reddit users at all.]

Film companies, including Bodyguard Productions and Millennium, are behind both lawsuits. In the first case, they sued Internet provider RCN for allegedly ignoring piracy on its broadband network. They sued Grande in the second case. Both RCN and Grande are owned by Astound Broadband.

Reddit is a non-party in both copyright infringement cases filed against the Astound-owned ISPs, but was served with subpoenas demanding information on Reddit users. When Reddit refused to provide all the requested information in both cases, the film companies filed motions to compel Reddit to respond to the subpoenas in US District Court for the Northern District of California.

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festiveferret · 1 year

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What to do if someone copied/stole/published/sold/plagiarized your fanfiction.

I am not a lawyer. This is merely my personal advice and compiled information from years of interest, activism, and study in this area. This post views things from the perspective of U.S. copyright law as most of the relevant platforms are based in the U.S. Laws in your country may differ. Rules and TOS vary from platform to platform.

Read on for:

Is plagiarism the same as a copyright violation?

Is it even a copyright violation if it’s fanfic?

Someone stole my work or a significant part of my work and reposted it on AO3 under their name. What do I do?

Someone stole my work and posted it on a site that isn’t AO3. What do I do?

Should I tell AO3/The OTW if I find someone on another platform posting/publishing fanfics taken from AO3?

What if I find someone else’s work that was stolen?

How can I prevent my work from being stolen?

Is plagiarism the same as copyright infringement?

Plagiarism is not a legal concept. Plagiarism is taking someone else’s work and claiming it as your own and/or failing to cite the source of ideas or information. Copyright is a legal protection that allows remedies to those who have their intellectual property rights violated. Simply put: if an unauthorized copy is made of something you hold copyright to, your copyright has been violated. Remedies can include having the violating work removed from a platform and/or the ability to sue someone for damages/losses you suffered as a result of the violation.

A platform may disallow plagiarism on their platform as part of their TOS with their own definition of what that entails and the threshold may be lower/simpler or higher than the legal threshold for copyright violations. The TOS will also apply equally to all users of the site, regardless of their own country’s laws.

Plagiarism is often (but not always!) a copyright violation by legal standards as well, though many copyright violations are not plagiarism. I can’t start a blog and post the entirety of The Hunger Games novels on it and claim I wrote it. I also can’t start a blog and post the entirety of The Hunger Games on it and explain that Suzanne Collins wrote it. Both are copyright violations. The first is also plagiarism. Daily Dracula is possible because Dracula is out of copyright. Copyright does not last forever. Once copyright ends, works enter the public domain and are free to be reposted/republished by anyone. Submitting a paper to my university where I do not properly cite where my ideas came from is academic plagiarism, but it’s not a copyright violation. Since it has no legal definition, the thresholds and specifics of what constitutes plagiarism are context, platform, and institution dependent.

Copyright violations are both against civil law and a violation of many sites’ Terms of Service. Even if they are not a violation of a site’s Terms of Service, they are still against civil law and you still have those legal protections (again, country-dependent).

Is it even a copyright violation if it’s fanfic?

Short answer: yes. Slightly longer answer: as U.S. law currently stands, you, by default, own the copyright to the aspects of your fanfic that were created by you and are protectable by copyright laws. You do not need to register for a copyright to hold it, nor to file a claim that it has been infringed, though registration may change how a copyright case plays out in court if it comes to that. Do not feel a need to register a copyright on your fics in the U.S.

Ideas are not protectable. If someone writes a fic or even a published story with the exact same idea as you, tough cookies. They are allowed to do that. Your actual words that you wrote are protectable. There is a legal threshold for how much constitutes copying. No, it’s not a clear-cut wordcount or percent. Yes, Disney/The CW etc. still owns the characters and other IP that you used. Yes, this is often confusing and complicated. Copyright of characters and concepts is complicated. Odds are, though D.C. owns Batman, you do not own any right to your OCs on their own.

The argument that currently protects fanfic is that it is transformative. This means the same argument protects other people who do transformative things with your work. If someone takes your ideas, OCs, concepts, approaches, and makes their own transformative work with it, they enjoy as much copyright protection as you did with your transformative work. It may annoy you, but it is not a copyright violation and most platforms also will not consider it plagiarism.

Different countries have different copyright laws and some have agreements with other countries and some do not. The global internet makes things even more complicated. You may need to investigate this further for your own country. Laws apply based on countries and regions; Terms of Service apply to all users on a particular platform. Most platforms are also beholden to the laws of the country they are based in.

Someone stole my work or a significant part of my work and reposted it on AO3 under their name. What do I do?

Report it to AO3′s Policy and Abuse Team. Plagiarism is against AO3′s TOS so you do not need to file a DMCA takedown notice, nor do you necessarily need to be the copyright holder under your country’s laws. AO3′s thresholds and rules for plagiarism and how they handle copyright violations are outlined in their TOS.

There is a report link at the bottom of every page. If you click it from a story page, it will auto-fill in the link to that work. If you click it from another page, be sure to fill in the link to the work you want to report instead. If you are reporting plagiarism, make sure you also provide a link to the thing you are alleging they stole. PAC is a small team that gets a lot of tickets and investigations take time. You may need to be patient. None of PAC’s moderating is automated. Every ticket is investigated by a human. So: provide evidence, be clear, be patient.

Someone stole my work and posted it on a site that isn’t AO3. What do I do?

You need to report it to that site. There are two ways to do this. Some sites have internal reporting tools like AO3 does and copyright violations are also a violation of their TOS, so they’re able to simply take down the offending work if there is enough evidence.

If they do not have an internal system, or if their internal system denies your claim, they are still required to follow a set process outlined by the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act). You send the platform a DMCA takedown notice which legally claims you as the copyright holder of a work and accuses the other party of violating your copyright. The platform then needs to inform the other party and the other party is given a timeframe to file a counter claim (officially disagree with your claim). If they do, you will be informed. You then have a timeframe to sue them. If you do not, the claim is dropped. The vast majority of the time, when it comes to actual plagiarism of fanfiction, the work is simply removed by the platform or the other party, uncontested.

Some sites have built-in DMCA reporting forms. Many of these forms include fields like your real name and your address. That information may end up being shared with the other party, depending on how the platform handles DMCA takedowns. You can use these forms if you wish.

Legally, you do not need to use these forms, even if they are provided. You can send your own takedown notice to a platform. It may be tricky on some platforms to find where to send these, as they want you to use the form for ease of internal ticketing.

There is a set list of what these notices need to provide. If you do not provide these things, the platform may ignore your notice. You can read the requirements here: https://www.copyright.gov/512/

The only requirement for personal identification is a valid way of contacting you. This can be an email address. This could be a PO box or a work phone number. As long as you, personally, can ultimately be reached there, it is valid. It is impossible to file a DMCA and remain totally anonymous, but you can often protect your personal information more than it seems at first glance. It is usually more work to send your own takedown notice instead of using the form, so it is up to you if keeping your contact information private is worth that extra effort.

Should I tell AO3/The OTW if I find someone on another platform posting/publishing fanfics taken from AO3?

No. Report these works to the platform the violating works are posted on, not the platform they were taken from. There is nothing the platform they were taken from can do. You hold the copyright to your fanfiction, AO3 does not. They are a platform, not a publisher. You are the sole holder of your copyright and solely responsible for pursuing violations. If you have a co-author, you each have the right to pursue violations.

What if I find someone else’s work that has been stolen?

If it was someone else’s work that was stolen, inform the person it was stolen from so they can report it appropriately with valid evidence of copyright holding. Keep in mind that if it is not your work, you cannot be sure if copyright infringement occurred or in what direction it occurred. Sometimes copyright holders give permission to repost/publish. Sometimes people publish under multiple names/aliases. Sometime infringing content at first glance appears to be the original. Some platforms will accept internal reports that do not come from the copyright holder, some will not. If you are not the copyright holder or a legal agent of the copyright holder you cannot file a DMCA takedown notice. If the copyright holder will not do anything to pursue the infringement, that is up to them and there’s nothing else you can do as a bystander.

How can I prevent my work from being stolen?

Bluntly, only by not sharing it with anyone, ever. If it is available on the internet or on paper, in any manner, anywhere that other people have access to it, it is possible to have someone violate your copyright or plagiarize you. Obviously, the odds and ease of this varies depending on circumstance. Printing out a copy of your story and mailing it to a trusted friend is less likely to result in a copyright violation than posting it publicly on a site like AO3, but it is not impossible. Account-locking your AO3 works may lower the chances of infringement but it does not remove them. Once you share anything anywhere online you may not lose your legal right to its control, but you do lose actual control over where it may end up. People break civil law and platforms’ TOS all the time. While some platforms may have preventative systems set up to stop copyright violations before they happen (YouTube’s automated striking system) most don’t. It is reactive instead of preventative. The law offers remedies which can only occur after the fact and pursuing those remedies often has downsides like sharing personal information, revealing your identity, or legal fees. This is a risk you need to weigh when you choose to share your creations. If you find a violation of your copyright, you are not required to pursue it; you can make the choice to ignore it if you prefer.

(Is copyright law actually way more complicated than this?)

Yes. It’s wild and I love it. There’s a lot of interesting things happening in U.S. courts right now that could directly affect fanfiction and fandom spaces. It’s worth keeping up to date on. I am not a lawyer, nor am I American, but I have studied U.S. copyright law in particular and it’s insane but very cool.

#copyright #plagiarism #fanfiction #what to do if your fic gets stolen #stolen fanfic faq #i am not your lawyer #fanfic rights

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pacthesis · 1 year

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the US copyright office still doesn't allow things not authored by people to be copyrighted

as of 3/16/2023 they clarified and compared ai prompters to "commissioners"- not artists 😌

source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/03/16/2023-05321/copyright-registration-guidance-works-containing-material-generated-by-artificial-intelligence

when i took law and commercial art i was taught that artists retain ownership of their work unless a contract/license says otherwise

when they post their art, it IS copyrighted and it belongs to them, automatically- without a © or watermark, whether they say so or not

so even when someone commissions an artist- unless if a contract/license says otherwise- the art still belongs to the artist, not the client

the artist is free to post, profit and do whatever with their work- legally, technically- but as it should be imo

(yea yea there’s IP and fan art is technically illegal in like nearly every case but everyone already knows that)

so if "prompting" is defined as "commissioning" then of course prompters do not own the rights to generated results

anyway the US copyright office also doesn't register copyright for things authored by animals: like paintings done by elephants or this pretty monkey selfie

so the photographer published the photos which were taken on his camera?

and PETA named the monkey "naruto"? and sued the photographer on naruto's behalf?

but the defense attorney pressed that PETA might of been suing on behalf of the wrong monkey??

yknow just cross-examine the monkey

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My only gripe with the WB theory is that wasn’t WB listed as an american citizen in those registration papers? Although idk how official those are since I never saw them myself, only saw what other people posted so I guess it’s possible. I just can’t believe she’d give a Grammy that rightfully belonged to SIR PAUL MCCARTNEY to fuckass Joe Alwyn idk how she convinced him to let her do that they must be closer than we think lol

Joe won the Grammy for producing folklore, not writing. And that was done under his own name.

I hear you on the American Citizen but we don’t know much about Paul’s citizenship (we do know it was impossible for Joe to have it) and to be fair, we also don’t know the nuances of the law. Someone does, but it ain’t me.

Another thing to note is that there is a difference between William Bowery Music Publishing, a company which joe very well could be part of, and that’s how he will get royalties, and Willam Bowery, the individual who is listed as a songwriter in the legal US copyright listings, as well as William Bowery who is listed as a songwriter on the album jacket, and was noted with that spelling in writing by Taylor as being the cowriter. I believe Joe absolutely gets royalties through WBMP. But being part of a company is not the same as being the writer. And there is a reason the name Willam is used instead of William in the legal docs.

I will put it on record that my opinion has always been that WB is just Taylor. But if Joe did write anything it was very very minimal. And no matter about any of that, he absolutely did not deserve full producer credit that gave him the Grammy. That is obvious to everyone except the most simple minded. And if she’d do that, well, what else would she do?

But either way, I’m adding all this to the pot of ongoing crazy.

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proxyflans · 9 months

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The novel's Kickstarter ends September 20 at 8 AM EDT! Limited tiers with physical rewards are still available!

An anime-inspired light novel about a magical girl with the power to turn her classmates into magical girls.

The Story

The Magical Girl in PROXY follows Kurosawa Takako—a girl who wakes up on a sofa one day, with no memory of who she is or how she got there. After having recurring dreams of darkness and a flan-loving girl without a face, Takako goes to school and finds in her desk a magazine that contains information about all of the girls in her class—and that she’s the only one that can turn them into magical girls to defeat the impending monsters!

The Author

My name is Erika, but for everything with this cast of characters, I tend to go by PROXYFLANS or PROXYdev. All my life, I have loved creating stories with large casts of characters, so The Magical Girl in PROXY seems like the culmination of all that.

I initially came up with the concept for TMGiP back in December 2015 after watching Yuuki Yuuna is a Hero, but I have been surrounded by the magical girl genre my entire life—bits and pieces of the original English dub of Sailor Moon, Wedding Peach, the first volume of the Pretty Cure manga; and later on Madoka Magica, the Cute High Earth Defense Club franchise, and Fairy Ranmaru.

Originally, I wanted to develop TMGiP as a game with my friends, but I proposed it as the topic for my Honors College Capstone Project in 2016, and completed a demo by myself. (Which is available on itch.io!)

Since then, I been world-building and writing a light novel adaptation to assist in laying out the plot of the game.

The Project

This Kickstarter is to fund the resources to publish the first volume of the novel, which contains the first six "episodes" of The Magical Girl in PROXY—varying in length from seven to ten sub-chapters each—currently sitting at a total of about 48.8k words. The final word count may vary, as during the Kickstarter, I will be going through and editing the novel one or two more times—to really make it sparkle like a magical girl!

The resources mentioned above are:

A block of 10 ISBNs from Bowker.

The copyright registration fee.

A license for Affinity Publisher 2 (already purchased in July because there was a sale).

I'm planning to publish a paperback version through IngramSpark, which no longer has an upload fee. The eBook version I am planning to publish myself on itch.io, DRM-free.

This is my first ever Kickstarter, so while the goal is to fund the physical release of the novel, I'm not comfortable enough with physical rewards to offer the novel's paperback version. So, the only physical rewards will be hand-drawn pictures of characters from the novel. These are in the top two tiers, with limited backers.

Rewards

Digital Copy of the First Episode

All tiers include this! The first episode features Hayashi Nana's transformation into the magical girl with power over plants, and her battle against giant Water Droplets that are attacking the school!

Digital Copy of the Novel

Tiers $5 and above include this.

Your Name on a Thank-You Page in the Novel

Tiers $10 and above include this—higher tiers will be placed first.

Drawing of a Random Character from the Novel

One of the two physical rewards—this is on the $20 tier, which is limited to 20 backers. The drawing will be one of the 15 magical girls or 5 villains.

Drawing of the Character of Your Choice from the Novel

The second of the two physical rewards—this one is on the $30 tier, limited to 10 backers. The drawing will be your choice of any of the characters from the novel.

Physical rewards will be on a blank index card, and I am planning on having it in a plastic slip (to keep dry) with cardboard (to avoid bending), mailed in an envelope.

Post-Kickstarter Timeline

As I complete the final edits during the Kickstarter, I will insert the chapters into Affinity Publisher so I can calculate the dimensions for the spine.

When the Kickstarter ends, I will purchase the block of 10 ISBNs. I will also take a couple days to draw the physical rewards and send them out. (Maybe I'll draw them on a stream?)

I am giving myself a hard deadline of November 21 for the art—by this date, I plan to have the cover and chapter art done. However, as I complete the art, I will replace art placeholders in Affinity Publisher—meaning I should be able to get the first episode out to all backers in Mid-October at the earliest. (I might do a stream or two for the art.)

Once all of the art is added to the book in Affinity Publisher, I will export it, then read through it and ensure that everything is formatted correctly. When this is complete, I will go through the process of assigning ISBNs and applying for copyright. I will send out the eBook to all backers who have it as a reward, either in December or January.

After all rewards are sent out, I will publish the novel on IngramSpark and itch.io! Currently planning for the paperback version to be $14.99, and the eBook to be $9.99, though these prices are subject to change.

Stretch Goals?

As I've said before, this is my first Kickstarter. I set the goal very low to be obtainable, and haven't put much thought towards stretch goals.

However, if the project is funded to at least 250-300% of the goal, I'll invest in a professional microphone and record an audiobook version.

Risks and Challenges

Like I said, the novel is just about done—I'm planning on going through one or two more times to make minor edits.

The biggest risk I can think of is that I under-estimated the dates for completing the art and sending out rewards in the Post-Kickstarter Timeline. However, I will keep everyone updated if any issues arise.

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THE FISHERMAN'S LEG (Part 19 of 20)

A sequel to Dee 1/2 Demon

De Writer (Glen Ten-Eyck)

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Tanira bowed and raised her finger for recognition. “If it please the Magistrate, I have three things to lay before the Tribunal. Miko san has drawn up all of the needful papers which need only your approval, payment of needful fees, your signature and the Tribunal's official chop.

Drawing a folded paper and a hand tied string of cash from her sleeve, she offered, “This first item is my divorce from Minami, and reclaiming my family name of Facirata. As we already have a civil separation and Minami is both a criminal serving a sentence for crimes and the murderer of my son Ichuru, there can be no reasonable contest of this divorce.

“As a part of this final separation, I am requesting also the Ice House, which has not yet been sold. It was a joint property which Minami improperly claimed as his own by locking me out of it.

“No papers backing his claim were filed. Thus, technically, it remains one half mine. It is presently held by the Tribunal for sale against his debits. Our debits were isolated by you in our civil separation, meaning that it would violate the separation of our debits if my half of its sale value were given to him as debit relief.

“Along with the papers is the proper fee, one of silver cash and of copper cash twenty five.”

Magistrate Lim received the papers and the string of coins with a smile. “The ownership of the Ice House shall be attached to your Fish Market as an asset of the business, which it always was before Minami san's crazed obsession with Dee san and the others of the Shop of Repairs. As you have observed, though officially a joint property, his claim of sole ownership by locking you out was not legal. It was solely motivated by personal greed.

“The final divorce and restoration of your name to Facirata Tanira is granted. The Ice House is now a part of your Fish Market.”

Smiling, Tanira proffered the next set of papers and cash on a hand tied string. “These papers request that Minara san and Takahara san, though both are orphaned and Emancipated, be adopted as daughters of mine. As Miko san, Dee san, Satsuna san and Patsu san all demonstrate, there is no reasonable or lawful bar to having both family and Emancipation at the same time. What this will accomplish is giving them incontestable inheritance rights to my estate should I die.

“As the papers witness, it is both their wish and mine. They are here to give you their consent if it is needed.”

Magistrate Lim smiled, blinking back tears, as he stated, “Granted and without fee. Refusal of this adoption, given the present circumstances, would be inhumane. May the Perfected Ones provide you with only blessings.”

“We all three thank you, good Magiatrate Lim. Our next, and last item of our business is to register with Sabo village a fishing boat named the Rising Dawn. It is of length, ten paces and of beam, three and one half paces. It is rigged for both sail and oars. It will be launched this afternoon if time allows.”

Taking the papers and the proffered cash, Magistrate Lim inquired, “I need two further things to complete this registration. One is the name of the Rising Dawn's builder and the other is her value.”

Patsu raised her finger and bowed for recognition. “In conjunction with labor from the Chiasu Estate, I built the Rising Dawn. Her value is set by the labor in her, cost of materials, shop space needed and a proper profit to the Chiasu Estate at three of golden cash, of silver cash, two strings fifty. The Chiasu Estate has made her over to Facirata Tanira as a gift.”

Nodding to himself, Magistrate Lim brushed in the details and signed all of the papers and applied the Tribunal's chop to the lot, giving them to Miko with the words, “Please file these as soon as we are done here.”

Gesturing imperiously at the space before his table, sword bared in sign of a final judgment, Magistrat Lim demanded, “Mimami! Take your place here to receive final sentence for your crimes!”

Minami hesitantly knelt before the Magistrate, flanked on both sides by constables carrying, not cudgels but drawn swords.

When all was ready, Magistrate Lim explained, “I have chosen to be lenient. Under the Law as written, I would be required to order your execution by beheading. This is why we have judges, to hear and make due allowance for the reasons that things are done. I understand that though completely wrong, you were driven to madness by things that you saw but did not understand, including the incomplete healing of your leg. You blamed the healers for that, in spite of the fact that YOU FORBADE them to touch you. Only the fact that you were carrying this madness allows me to avoid your execution.

“I strip you of any face at all for your multiple infractions. Further, for the escape, theft and murder you are sentenced to a full five years at hard labor on Sabo province's roads. If you leave the road gang for any reason without permission IN WRITING, you will be executed upon capture.

“If you would prefer, I can instead order your execution. I do understand that it is a heavy sentence.”

Shaking his head in perplexity as he stood up to be led away, Minami whirled and thrust a pointing finger at Dee as he exclaimed, “Look at this whole mess! It is YOUR FAULT! Everything! My ugly leg! My reputation! My boat! My Fish Market! My home! My wife! My son! This is all your doing!”

Patsu remarked dryly, “Well his sanity didn't last too long! I wonder how he figures that one?”

“Don't pretend innocence! Up at the Hospital, all that you had to do was simply explain what I saw! If you had, none of the rest of this would have happened at all!”

Dee casually turned her hand up, her fingertips becoming black claws. Fire, of a thin pale blue formed as a dancing flame balanced on her clawtips. She remarked, “If you can remember it at all, we tried. What you saw had you so frightened that you would not answer us when we asked what had you so upset. We could not tell you what you what really happened because you would not tell us what you saw that frightened you so. If you had simply asked us, we'd have told you.”

He was still shouting, “This is all your fault! You should have told me then! My leg would be properly healed! I would still have everything! Ichuru would still be alive! All that you had to do was say something!”

The door to the cells closed on his rant!

Magistrate Lim shook his head sadly. “Mad. Completely mad. Nothing is his responsibility or fault at all. Maybe I should have him executed.”

Patsu snorted, “What would you do with his body? Cremation? He would make a toxic smoke! Bury him? Pollute the soil for tens of paces all around? Dump him in the ocean? He would kill or poison all of our fish!”

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안녕하세요 슈가서포터즈입니다. 저희는 유튜브 뮤직에서 Agust D의 저작권을 침해하는 사례를 발견하였습니다. 현재 유튜브 뮤직 아티스트 프로필 접속 시 싱글 부분에서 People, Moonlight, Honsool 세가지의 곡이 기존과는 다른 앨범표지를 가지고 2023년 발매된 싱글로 등록되어 있으나 크래딧을 확인해 보면 작곡가의 크래딧이 Agust D가 아닌 다른 사람의 이름으로 등록되어 있습니다. (첨부된 사진에서 확인이 가능합니다) 그러나 해당 음악을 재생했을 경우 Agust D의 사람, 저 달, 혼술이 재생됩니다. 이러한 일은 2021년 중국에서 유튜브에 허위 저작권 등록을 통해 저작권을 침해한 사건과 유사한 사건으로 보여지며, 해당 사건에서 한국음악저작권협회에서 조취를 취하였던 것을 확인하게 되어 슈가서포터즈에서는 한국저작권협회 온라인 침해신고와 빅히트사 이메일로 제보를 하고자합니다. 아티스트의 저작권과 관련된 중요한 사항이기에 가능한 많은 분들께서 함께 해주시기를 부탁드리고자 합니다. 타래를 통해서 각 매체별 신고 방법을 안내해 드리고자 하니 방법을 확인하시고 꼭 동참 부탁드립니다. 편리한 신고를 위해서 해당 음원의 유튜브뮤직링크과 크래딧 , 앨범의 사진을 최하단에 첨부드립니다. 조회수(스트리밍)을 올려주는 것은 수익과 관련이 있을 수 있기 때문에 절대 음원링크는 클릭하지 않도록 주의 해주세요. *현재 유튜브 뮤직에서 저작권 관련으로 신고를 하는 방법 중 저작권자 본인의 신고 이외 타인의 신고로 저작물 침해와 관련하여 직접적으로 처리할 수 있는 방법을 확인중에 있으니 아래의 두가지 방법을 통한 신고를 먼저 부탁드립니다.

Hello this is SUGASUPPORTERS & MINSUGAHQ We have found a violation of Agust D’s copyright on YouTube Music – Currently three songs: People, Moonlight, and Honsool, have been registered as 2023 releases with different album covers, but when you check the credits, the “written by” portion is registered under someone else’s name, not Agust D. The singles also show up on the Youtube Music Artist profile as new singles. (Screenshots in the thread) When you select the “new” singles, Agust D’s People, Moonlight, and Honsool, will play. This is a similar situation to the copyright infringement through false copyright registration, that occurred in on Youtube in China in 2021.

SUGASUPPORTERS would like to report this online violation of the Korea Copyright Association and report it to BigHit through email. This is an important issue related to the copyright of the artist, and I would like to ask as many people as possible to join in. We would like to share the reporting method for each way of reporting, so please read the instructions and help us.

MINSUGAHQ will be checking and testing to see if international fans can sign up for KOMCA without a korean number, so we please urge all fans outside of Korea to focus on the email to BigHit first

For more information on how to help and step by step, please check our info here

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After looking at all the evidence and considering things , i decided to forgo becoming an official member of The Satanic Temple, but i still closely relate to and appreciate their values and tenets. In your opinion, is it morally sound for me to use these tenets as a guiding tool in my life and also consume media from people supporting them (buying books for information, watching videos, etc.)? I'm not considering myself a member, but i am heavily influenced.

Short answer: No, you should not.

The Seven Tenets are the intellectual property of a shit organization owned by shit people who do shit things, and you should not support them.

If you are drawn to the idea of specifically Satanic moral guidance, give the Global Order of Satan's six pillars a gander.

Long answer going into more about the intellectual property stuff below.

First of all, the Seven Tenets aren’t really anything special.

You can see in their history how the different things The Satanic Temple has been has shaped what now are the “Seven Fundamental Tenets”, and like lots of things, the fact that Cevin Soling and Doug Misicko control what TST is and ever will be is a fatal flaw that can’t be got around.

This latest version of the tenets aren’t necessarily bad, and if they weren’t proprietary intellectual property of two specific men, you would want to have various local chapters/congregations come together to revise them collectively every so often to—by consensus—create principles that spoke to the people actually involved and doing the work.

In another world, in a better version of TST that recognized it had become more than a prank documentary and stumbled into a genuine religious movement, and rather than trying to enclose as much of the commons as possible and profit as much as possible, the founders could actually have stepped aside and created a federation more like the Quakers/Society of Friends to grow beyond their control.

But we live in this world instead.

The Seven Tenets of The Satanic Temple.

Type of Work: Text

Registration Number / Date: TXu002170560 / 2019-10-24

Application Title: The Seven Tenets of The Satanic Temple.

Title: The Seven Tenets of The Satanic Temple.

Description: Electronic file (eService)

Date of Creation: 2013

Authorship on Application: The Satanic Temple, employer for hire; Domicile: United States; Citizenship: United States. Authorship: text. Rights and Permissions: The Satanic Temple, 64 Bridge Street, SALEM, MA, 01970, United States

Names: The Satanic Temple

Now, it’s not clear whether they mean the for-profit corporation or the tax-exempt church here.

It's probably the for-profit because most TST stuff is registered under United Federation of Churches LLC dba “ ‘The Satanic Temple’ ”.

However, the above entry is registered only as “The Satanic Temple”, full stop, which was also the previous name of the church before they renamed it “The Satanic Temple, Inc.” and still appears on lots of documents that way.

Along with the use of pseudonyms on official documents and other instances of perjury, it ought to be a red flag to supporters of TST about the two owners and their business practices but so far largely hasn’t been.

"Oh, all religions do this."

We can assure you they do not, and it's not just some box they needed to check. Per Joseph Rose of the Hail Satan Podcast, The Satanic Temple threatened to sue him over him selling something with the Seven Tenets on them. Forget which episode.

But imagine the Catholic Church suing someone over selling a pamphlet with the Nicene Creed or Ten Commandments. It's ludicrous, but TST is, among other things, a for-profit corporation and its owners want their money.

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Hey Jenn. Thanks for answering my question (about copyright/pen name). Just a quick follow-up on it if you don't mind - I think writers in UK/Europe don't need to fill out copyright, because it's implied, unlike in US? So I think they just slap on their real name? Would they be the same in this case, but using a pen name instead? I know you're in US, but figured you might know if you have UK clients. Basically just want to make sure I can hide my name and self-publish but still own copyright. TY

FWIW -- Copyright is automatic in the US as well, and most countries you are likely to be reading this from. According to the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, there are basic rights and protections that authors get automatically, and that same protection should apply in any country that is a member of the Berne Union. In other words, even in the U.S., you don't need to file anything or do anything.

Per the U.S. Copyright office:

"Your work is under copyright protection the moment it is created and fixed in a tangible form that it is perceptible either directly or with the aid of a machine or device."

However:

"Many choose to register their works because they wish to have the facts of their copyright on the public record and have a certificate of registration. Registered works may be eligible for statutory damages and attorney's fees in successful litigation."

It's just another layer of protection that makes it easier to prove you are the author in court. But obviously, yes, this only applies to the US -- it's the US copyright office. I have no idea what people do in the UK or Europe, or if they need do anything.

So I looked it up. Per Gov.UK and Europa.Eu, it is true that you don't need to file for anything in the UK or Europe, and you can just basically put the little (c) symbol, with whatever name you want. That said, just like in the US, the more proof you have that you are the person who created the work, the easier it will be to defend that work against infringers. Here's a lot more info.

Short answer: You should be fine to just put (c) your pen name and call it a day.

But also: I'm not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, I strongly suggest that you talk to an actual UK or European intellectual property lawyer if you have more detailed questions.

P.S.: I live in the US and have expertise in traditional publishing in the U.S. Sorry to be provincial, but I will always assume your question is about the U.S. unless you specify otherwise in your ask! :-)

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