#ripped paper effect

[jessource]

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[miwtual]

3K CELEBRATION ♡ surprise gifset for @djo​ ↳ NANCY WHEELER + MAKING THE BED BY OLIVIA RODRIGO

#strangerthingsedit #stedit #tvedit #netflixedit #nancywheeleredit #mystuff #my3k #mysongedits #userallisyn #userangelic #tusermichi #tuserlucie #userspacey #usersen #usertez #addys-beth #tuserlogan #userjake #this is my first try at the ripped paper effect be nice pls

[altarwaiting]

@usergif 1 year celebration: shuffle challenge

day 5 : blending | ripped paper edges | astrology 

What's May 2nd? That's my – Uh... that's Sam's birthday.

#supernatural #spn #sam winchester #spnedit #supernaturaledit #samwinchesteredit #spnsamwinchester #usergif1year #* #hope it's okay that the ripped paper effect is only on one i could not find a way to make it look good with the blending

[foreseeobstacles]

#taylor swift #tswiftedit #reputation #reputation era #i did something bad #idsb #so i noticed that tumblrinas love ripped paper effects n shit #so yknow. i wanted to fuck w/ that

[charismat1c-megafauna]

The moment I came to understand everyone's obsession with Fitzjames admittedly came a little late, but oh my god. The scene where his scars start reopening (because scurvy and malnutrition), which is a horrifying thought on his own, and he chooses his costume for the carnival... with a red cape covering the arm he mentioned being shot in. An incredible metaphor for his atrocities coming back to haunt him. Nothing I can say that hasn't already been said. But god damn. I get it now.

#the terror #james fitzjames #terrorposting #i also love the effective use of real world symptoms of real world diseases as metaphors #(admittedly i peppered malnutrition induced scar-reopening into a story of mine but for a much different purpose) #(the unhealing and reliving of trauma in a way that is no longer invisible) #(in the terror it takes a much different shape) #(still horrifying! i love it!) #(anyway how can you talk brazenly of men you shoot catching on fire... people you dont consider people...) #(and then watch all your mates get ripped apart in the arctic like theyre made of paper)

[ereh-emanresu-tresni]

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#this paper is too much to effectively bs my way through rip me i guess #this semester has been such a fucking shitshow. unsurprised honestly but still. #how do i stop learning helplessness when it keeps being fucking taught lol

[bogunicorn]

I'm trying not to care about YouTubers sniping at each other anymore, but iilluminaughtii trying to accuse one of LegalEagle's editors of "plagiarizing her style" (not a thing) because he tried to ask what plugin was used for some super basic effects (a plugin HER editors didn't even create themselves), and then getting smacked down by hbomberguy with exact, uncredited quotes one of HER videos ripped from a documentary ... man, that's just camp.

I keep forgetting Blaire is still around, because I fell off of her content when she was harassing some smaller channel years ago for perceived copying. Good to know that running her own content farm hasn't changed her.

#bog post #fandom bs #we'll call it that for the tags lmao #also realtalk i would like to petition for 'plagiarism' to be put on the shelf #with 'problematic' and 'gaslighting' and other words the internet can't use correctly #plagiarism is a specific thing #not a passing resemblance #not coincidental similarities #certainly not multiple people using the same basic elements for a work #like a ripped paper effect or colored text highlights #tbh someone being obsessed with their work being plagiarized is a red flag #it's fine to be protective or even possessive ofc #but generally people who are quick to accuse others of plagiarism with little to no basis #they're coping with some other kind of insecurity and they suck to be around #that's just me tho

[gale-in-space]

My map was too big for tumblr so I screenshotted it but YEAH turns out you can just... paint maps in csp LOL

#ignore the river that looks like it's going up a hill. it's not a hill. i haven't drawn any hills #that's just a crumpled paper effect #rip #space campaign

[skatingthinandice]

finally made a new blog theme for the first time in ages, thanks to @clubgif for the header tutorial 💛

#i've wanted to try the ripped paper effect for ages

[lucindarobinsonvevo]

im SO tempted to replace my header with a pic of jason marsden and omri katz from the entertaiment weekly photoshoot 👀

#and i LOVE my header it perfectly represents what this blog is about #and i love the colors and the ripped paper effect #but come on now. whens the next time omri katz and jason marsden will be doing a photoshoot?

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[miwtual]

kicking down the door to your inbox with balloons and cake to celebrate your milestone bestie, you deserve every single follower and more 🤍 for your celebration i'm sending you one of these lil dudes 🤠 so have fun with that 🫡 ok ilysm BYE

allie HELLOOOOOO ilysm!!!!!!! so we talked about nancy + making the bed by olivia rodrigo and u specifically (unofficially) requested it from me, so it only felt right to make that ur gifted gifset <3

#kai.answer #my3k #i hope u like it i tried the rip paper effect just for u HGSVJBDHKFJS

[quinnigallagherjones]

GUYSSSSSS I THINK I MADE A GIF THAT LOOKS OKAY !!!!!!! ANYGAYS NEW THEME HIIII !!!!!!

#i am so proud of myself for adding the ripped paper effect #photopea i beat you !! i didn't let you win !! #(also helps that i got a higher quality video hahahah) #EEEE I AM SO HAPPY #text

[fenkko]

cover art/print for the awesome Pat Pedraza's punk song for scara ⚡️⚡️⚡️BOW YOUR HEAD⚡️⚡️⚡️

keep an eye out for his signings if you want this scara stomping on your walls

the lyric video is really fun, make sure you check out the whole thing on his youtube and listen to the song on spotify 🕺

design notes: i looked up some punk album covers for inspiration and went for a poppy color palette to reflect the energy of the song. i love working with colors but it can be hard to control sometimes with readability because of all the competing elements haha, colors took the most time to decide. i think it looks really good as the little song icon!

for the punk elements, i did this magazine paper cut out effect for the title by changing letters to different fonts and moving them around, then drawing over to mess up the edges. i also put ripped paper where he's kicking a hole through the poster, referencing his burst

i wanted to break up the solid area at the bottom of his shoe, so i put the electro symbol for scara to step on whenever he walks. rebellion ‼️‼️‼️🦅🦅🦅🦅

#scaramouche #scara #scaramouche fanart #genshin impact #genshin impact fanart #genshin fanart #my art

[mostlysignssomeportents]

It all started with a mouse

For the public domain, time stopped in 1998, when the Sonny Bono Copyright Act froze copyright expirations for 20 years. In 2019, time started again, with a massive crop of works from 1923 returning to the public domain, free for all to use and adapt:

https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2019/

No one is better at conveying the power of the public domain than Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle, who run the Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain. For years leading up to 2019, the pair published an annual roundup of what we would have gotten from the public domain in a universe where the 1998 Act never passed. Since 2019, they've switched to celebrating what we're actually getting each year. Last year's was a banger:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/20/free-for-2023/#oy-canada

But while there's been moderate excitement at the publicdomainification of "Yes, We Have No Bananas," AA Milne's "Now We Are Six," and Sherlock Holmes, the main event that everyone's anticipated arrives on January 1, 2024, when Mickey Mouse enters the public domain.

The first appearance of Mickey Mouse was in 1928's Steamboat Willie. Disney was critical to the lobbying efforts that extended copyright in 1976 and again in 1998, so much so that the 1998 Act is sometimes called the Mickey Mouse Protection Act. Disney and its allies were so effective at securing these regulatory gifts that many people doubted that this day would ever come. Surely Disney would secure another retrospective copyright term extension before Jan 1, 2024. I had long arguments with comrades about this – people like Project Gutenberg founder Michael S Hart (RIP) were fatalistically certain the public domain would never come back.

But they were wrong. The public outrage over copyright term extensions came too late to stave off the slow-motion arson of the 1976 and 1998 Acts, but it was sufficient to keep a third extension away from the USA. Canada wasn't so lucky: Justin Trudeau let Trump bully him into taking 20 years' worth of works out of Canada's public domain in the revised NAFTA agreement, making swathes of works by living Canadian authors illegal at the stroke of a pen, in a gift to the distant descendants of long-dead foreign authors.

Now, with Mickey's liberation bare days away, there's a mounting sense of excitement and unease. Will Mickey actually be free? The answer is a resounding YES! (albeit with a few caveats). In a prelude to this year's public domain roundup, Jennifer Jenkins has published a full and delightful guide to The Mouse and IP from Jan 1 on:

https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/mickey/

Disney loves the public domain. Its best-loved works, from The Sorcerer's Apprentice to Sleeping Beauty, Pinnocchio to The Little Mermaid, are gorgeous, thoughtful, and lively reworkings of material from the public domain. Disney loves the public domain – we just wish it would share.

Disney loves copyright's other flexibilities, too, like fair use. Walt told the papers that he took his inspiration for Steamboat Willie from Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks, making fair use of their performances to imbue Mickey with his mischief and derring do. Disney loves fair use – we just wish it would share.

Disney loves copyright's limitations. Steamboat Willie was inspired by Buster Keaton's silent film Steamboat Bill (titles aren't copyrightable). Disney loves copyright's limitations – we just wish it would share.

As Jenkins writes, Disney's relationship to copyright is wildly contradictory. It's the poster child for the public domain's power as a source of inspiration for worthy (and profitable) new works. It's also the chief villain in the impoverishment and near-extinction of the public domain. Truly, every pirate wants to be an admiral.

Disney's reliance on – and sabotage of – the public domain is ironic. Jenkins compares it to "an oil company relying on solar power to run its rigs." Come January 1, Disney will have to share.

Now, if you've heard anything about this, you've probably been told that Mickey isn't really entering the public domain. Between trademark claims and later copyrightable elements of Mickey's design, Mickey's status will be too complex to understand. That's totally wrong.

Jenkins illustrates the relationship between these three elements in (what else) a Mickey-shaped Venn diagram. Topline: you can use all the elements of Mickey that are present in Steamboat Willie, along with some elements that were added later, provided that you make it clear that your work isn't affiliated with Disney.

Let's unpack that. The copyrightable status of a character used to be vague and complex, but several high-profile cases have brought clarity to the question. The big one is Les Klinger's case against the Arthur Conan Doyle estate over Sherlock Holmes. That case established that when a character appears in both public domain and copyrighted works, the character is in the public domain, and you are "free to copy story elements from the public domain works":

https://freesherlock.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/klinger-order-on-motion-for-summary-judgment-c.pdf

This case was appealed all the way to the Supreme Court, who declined to hear it. It's settled law.

So, which parts of Mickey aren't going into the public domain? Elements that came later: white gloves, color. But that doesn't mean you can't add different gloves, or different colorways. The idea of a eyes with pupils is not copyrightable – only the specific eyes that Disney added.

Other later elements that don't qualify for copyright: a squeaky mouse voice, being adorable, doing jaunty dances, etc. These are all generic characteristics of cartoon mice, and they're free for you to use. Jenkins is more cautious on whether you can give your Mickey red shorts. She judges that "a single, bright, primary color for an article of clothing does not meet the copyrightability threshold" but without settled law, you might wanna change the colors.

But what about trademark? For years, Disney has included a clip from Steamboat Willie at the start of each of its films. Many observers characterized this as a bid to create a de facto perpetual copyright, by making Steamboat Willie inescapably associated with products from Disney, weaving an impassable web of trademark tripwires around it.

But trademark doesn't prevent you from using Steamboat Willie. It only prevents you from misleading consumers "into thinking your work is produced or sponsored by Disney." Trademarks don't expire so long as they're in use, but uses that don't create confusion are fair game under trademark.

Copyrights and trademarks can overlap. Mickey Mouse is a copyrighted character, but he's also an indicator that a product or service is associated with Disney. While Mickey's copyright expires in a couple weeks, his trademark doesn't. What happens to an out-of-copyright work that is still a trademark?

Luckily for us, this is also a thoroughly settled case. As in, this question was resolved in a unanimous 2000 Supreme Court ruling, Dastar v. Twentieth Century Fox. A live trademark does not extend an expired copyright. As the Supremes said:

[This would] create a species of mutant copyright law that limits the public’s federal right to copy and to use expired copyrights.

This elaborates on the Ninth Circuit's 1996 Maljack Prods v Goodtimes Home Video Corp:

[Trademark][ cannot be used to circumvent copyright law. If material covered by copyright law has passed into the public domain, it cannot then be protected by the Lanham Act without rendering the Copyright Act a nullity.

Despite what you might have heard, there is no ambiguity here. Copyrights can't be extended through trademark. Period. Unanimous Supreme Court Decision. Boom. End of story. Done.

But even so, there are trademark considerations in how you use Steamboat Willie after Jan 1, but these considerations are about protecting the public, not Disney shareholders. Your uses can't be misleading. People who buy or view your Steamboat Willie media or products have to be totally clear that your work comes from you, not Disney.

Avoiding confusion will be very hard for some uses, like plush toys, or short idents at the beginning of feature films. For most uses, though, a prominent disclaimer will suffice. The copyright page for my 2003 debut novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom contains this disclaimer:

This novel is a work of fiction, set in an imagined future. All the characters and events portrayed in this book, including the imagined future of the Magic Kingdom, are either fictitious or are used fictitiously. The Walt Disney Company has not authorized or endorsed this novel.

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250196385/downandoutinthemagickingdom

Here's the Ninth Circuit again:

When a public domain work is copied, along with its title, there is little likelihood of confusion when even the most minimal steps are taken to distinguish the publisher of the original from that of the copy. The public is receiving just what it believes it is receiving—the work with which the title has become associated. The public is not only unharmed, it is unconfused.

Trademark has many exceptions. The First Amendment protects your right to use trademarks in expressive ways, for example, to recreate famous paintings with Barbie dolls:

https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/summaries/mattel-walkingmountain-9thcir2003.pdf

And then there's "nominative use": it's not a trademark violation to use a trademark to accurately describe a trademarked thing. "We fix iPhones" is not a trademark violation. Neither is 'Works with HP printers.' This goes double for "expressive" uses of trademarks in new works of art:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_v._Grimaldi

What about "dilution"? Trademark protects a small number of superbrands from uses that "impair the distinctiveness or harm the reputation of the famous mark, even when there is no consumer confusion." Jenkins says that the Mickey silhouette and the current Mickey character designs might be entitled to protection from dilution, but Steamboat Willie doesn't make the cut.

Jenkins closes with a celebration of the public domain's ability to inspire new works, like Disney's Three Musketeers, Disney's Christmas Carol, Disney's Beauty and the Beast, Disney's Around the World in 80 Days, Disney's Alice in Wonderland, Disney's Snow White, Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame, Disney's Sleeping Beauty, Disney's Cinderella, Disney's Little Mermaid, Disney's Pinocchio, Disney's Huck Finn, Disney's Robin Hood, and Disney's Aladdin. These are some of the best-loved films of the past century, and made Disney a leading example of what talented, creative people can do with the public domain.

As of January 1, Disney will start to be an example of what talented, creative people give back to the public domain, joining Dickens, Dumas, Carroll, Verne, de Villeneuve, the Brothers Grimm, Twain, Hugo, Perrault and Collodi.

Public domain day is 17 days away. Creators of all kinds: start your engines!

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/15/mouse-liberation-front/#free-mickey

Image: Doo Lee (modified) https://web.law.duke.edu/sites/default/files/images/centers/cspd/pdd2024/mickey/Steamboat-WIllie-Enters-Public-Domain.jpeg

CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en

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[sketchypenface]

Going back to a couple of my oil pastel scribbles, have used photoshop to try and create a spooky effect with the simple ghost I drew. Also used my Halloween-themed ripped paper pieces outcome to put a bit more colour onto them (all 3 markmade outcomes as the bottom).

I overlaid the red-painted outcome onto the purple ink outcome, then tried a few overlays with the ghost and ripped pieces.

#halloween theme #Halloween #Spooky season #cute ghost #ghostly #ghost #ripped paper #colourful art #spooky theme #spooky #Oil Pastel #simple drawing #photoshop effects #photoshop edit #photoshop #overlays #drawing ink #watercolours #art experiments #art exercise