Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
[W]hen we launch in a territory the Bittorrent traffic drops as the Netflix traffic grows. So I think people do want a great experience and they want access – people are mostly honest. The best way to combat piracy isn’t legislatively or criminally but by giving good options. One of the side effects of growth of content is an expectation to have access to it. You can’t use the internet as a marketing vehicle and then not as a delivery vehicle.
Ted Sarandos, Chief Content Officer at Netflix (via laliberty)
Look, someone who gets it.
(via knitmeapony)
Let me tell you something about today. Today was the hottest day of the year in New Jersey, I woke up sweating despite air conditioning because it was 95 degrees. Now, i did what any logical person would do and I put on my favorite pair of shorts so i wouldn’t be sweating throughout the day.
Even in my shorts i was sweating my balls off but I went through half of my day as normal, no boys stared at my ass or tried to grope me in public yet when i went to the the cafeteria a teacher told me to go to the office because he finds my shorts inappropriate. I head down to the office to find a group of girls wearing shorts and skirts sitting in a small room in the office, we where all ordered to call our parents or to change into the clothes they had offered us from the school store. These items of clothing included sweatpants and a large heavy sweatshirt. I obviously refused to where those because it was 95 degrees and when you are sweating the key to cool down is NOT to put on more clothes. They told me I would have to stay in that room the whole day if it came down to it.
I was able to leave the office when my friend gave me a pair of yoga pants. The man who made me go down to the office brought down several other girls as I was leaving, at this point they didn’t care how long the shorts where they just sent everyone who was wearing a pair down. They warned me that if I put my shorts back on they would right me up.
I put them back on anyway because just walking down the hallway in those yoga pants made me faint, dizzy,and extremely hot. Thats the main issue, it is hot enough for people to pass out in school but to the school system they would rather a girl suffer from a heat stroke then to have a boy become turned on. My shorts don’t say “COme fuck me in the middle of class” they say,”Its warm out”
The sexualizing of innocent students is not okay
Risking students health is not okay
and tHE LACK OF FEMINISM IN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM WILL NEVER BE OKAY
One more Kindle Worlds point
Also just want to throw out there for anyone who might be considering Kindle Worlds: I would look very carefully at the language in the contract surrounding this point on their guidelines:
Amazon Publishing will acquire all rights to your new stories, including global publication rights, for the term of copyright.
First of all, who’s filing for copyright? The author? Amazon? How do you even file for copyright when half the content of your story is already copyrighted by someone else?
Second of all, there’s no option to revert rights at any point? Traditionally authors can revert rights to their books once the books go out of print—but since this is published digitally, presumably the book will forever be in print. How will you ever get the rights back on your story? Is there a minimum number of copies that have to sell in a year for it to be considered in print (which is what we generally do for regular ebook)? Or if the ideas generated in your story are now available for Alloy to use at their discretion, does that mean you can never get the rights back regardless?
I’m really curious to see the language involved here, but I strongly doubt there’s anything in place at the moment to ever allow for a reversion of rights.
Here’s the thing about copyright in the US: no one has to file for it. Copyright is invested with the Author (or Creator is the term I like better) the moment the Work is in fixed, final form. For a book or a fan fic, that means published. Who is legally considered the Creator is a bit trickier; if a Work is commissioned or ‘hired’ (paid for as part of a job) then the commissioning body (in this case Amazon or Alloy) is legally the Creator if the Work. Maybe.
If they solicit these stories, then that’s how it’ll play. But it sounds to me like they’re granting permission to write these stories, and then cherry picking the ones they want. That’s not work for hire or anything like it.
Amazon have also said that they reserve the right to publish your work anywhere at any time in any way that pleases themselves, without further compensation. You basically give up all control of how your work is going to be used. They are paying a pittance for unlimited rights to your work.
Finally, the term of copyright in the US is the life of the Creator + 70 years, subjcet to extension.
Copyright is automatic, but you have to register your copyright if you want to actually bring a lawsuit for infringement. When a publisher publishes a book, they file for copyright on the author’s behalf. When an author self-publishes on Kindle or Smashwords, they really ought to file for copyright, though I can understand why many might feel it isn’t worth the expense.I realize that formal copyright registration isn’t really viable for anything that will be published under Kindle Worlds, but my concern is more with Amazon’s implication in their guidelines that the fanfic author’s original elements are protected under copyright nonetheless… yet in the exact same guidelines, they state that the World Licensor can take those original elements and do absolutely anything with them, with no compensation or presumably even credit to the fic author whose idea it was. That doesn’t sound much like having copyright protection over your original elements to me.Also, term of copyright is not the same thing as term of license. A publisher may file for copyright on behalf of the author, but when the book goes out of print, the publisher reverts the rights to the author and sends them the copyright documentation. A contract that grants the publisher exclusive rights “for the term of copyright,” as Amazon states here, is a horrible contract since, as you say, term of copyright is the lifetime of the author and then some. Per this clause, you can never change your mind and take it down and publish it elsewhere (not even for free), even if it hasn’t sold a single copy in thirty years. You can never say “Hold on, that original character I created in that fic would be awesome to use in my new original work! But Alloy has the rights to use that character if they want to, and they haven’t yet, but if I’m going to publish my original book with her in it, I don’t want them to use her somewhere down the line!” Too bad, you can’t pull her back; Alloy has the rights to her until well after you’re dead.On the one hand, since a fanfic author can’t publish their fic for cash anywhere else anyway, what do they have to lose by giving up the right to publish the story anywhere else for as long as they live? On the other hand, yesterday we didn’t think fanfic authors could legally publish their work for pay anywhere. Who knows what may change in an author’s lifetime?
I agree totally- what it looks like, to me, is Amazon are going to use this ‘Kindle Worlds’ wheeze as a farm system. They also include in their awful contract the clause that they get to let others use your work “to build on”. So if they see something they like, they’ll just pinch it, incorporating it to a greater or lesser degree into the source material, and they don’t have to pay you squat.
The thing that mystifies me, truly, is: why would anyone want to sell them anything at all?
I wouldn’t let Amazon touch any of my work with a 10 foot bargepole, no matter how much they offered me. And yet, some people seem truly excited about this. Amazon restrict what you can write (i.e. the content and fandom of your fic) then pay you an insulting fraction of what it’s worth, there doesn’t seem to be any mechanism for editing or proofreading, and the contract itself seems to take away all rights to the work whilst telling you that you are retaining them. It just looks like the most manipulative, underhanded, and dishonest commodification of fandom. Fannish culture runs on freedom, in all senses of the word. Fandom should be free.
I do realise I’m probably preaching to the choir, but I simply don’t understand how anyone who loves fandom could look at what Amazon are doing and think it is okay.
(Source: danieldaylewiswithamoustache)
One more Kindle Worlds point
Also just want to throw out there for anyone who might be considering Kindle Worlds: I would look very carefully at the language in the contract surrounding this point on their guidelines:
Amazon Publishing will acquire all rights to your new stories, including global publication rights, for the term of copyright.
First of all, who’s filing for copyright? The author? Amazon? How do you even file for copyright when half the content of your story is already copyrighted by someone else?
Second of all, there’s no option to revert rights at any point? Traditionally authors can revert rights to their books once the books go out of print—but since this is published digitally, presumably the book will forever be in print. How will you ever get the rights back on your story? Is there a minimum number of copies that have to sell in a year for it to be considered in print (which is what we generally do for regular ebook)? Or if the ideas generated in your story are now available for Alloy to use at their discretion, does that mean you can never get the rights back regardless?
I’m really curious to see the language involved here, but I strongly doubt there’s anything in place at the moment to ever allow for a reversion of rights.
Here’s the thing about copyright in the US: no one has to file for it. Copyright is invested with the Author (or Creator is the term I like better) the moment the Work is in fixed, final form. For a book or a fan fic, that means published. Who is legally considered the Creator is a bit trickier; if a Work is commissioned or ‘hired’ (paid for as part of a job) then the commissioning body (in this case Amazon or Alloy) is legally the Creator if the Work. Maybe.
If they solicit these stories, then that’s how it’ll play. But it sounds to me like they’re granting permission to write these stories, and then cherry picking the ones they want. That’s not work for hire or anything like it.
Amazon have also said that they reserve the right to publish your work anywhere at any time in any way that pleases themselves, without further compensation. You basically give up all control of how your work is going to be used. They are paying a pittance for unlimited rights to your work.
Finally, the term of copyright in the US is the life of the Creator + 70 years, subjcet to extension.
but what if a vampire drank the blood of someone who was anemic like would they be seriously grossed out
“what the fuck is this”
“i have anemia”
“can you take something for that you should probably take something for that this shit is nasty to drink let alone have running through your body i’m setting up a doctor’s appointment for you”
“dude really you don’t have to just leave what the fu—”
“you disgust me here take these iron supplements”
“where did you even get th—”
“shut up and take your pills and dont forget your vitamin D”
“i’m going to check up on you weekly to make sure you’re taking them”
“that’s not necessary”
“maybe we should work on a dietary plan with foods rich in iron and other things for you”
“do you get this involved with all of your meals”
VAMPIREDUDE:
did u get the cookbook i orderd 4 uME:
Oh my god, first of all stop using text speak, you told me you were 278, second how did you know where I LIVED, third yes I got it.VAMPIREDUDE:
heard onions were good 4 blood, eat lotsME:
So you can have a tasty meal? I guess you’d rather I stay away from garlic, huh.VAMPIREDUDE:
UR being v rude I just got u a present!!!ME:
THE COOKBOOK IS CALLED “HOW TO TASTE DELICIOUS,” I AM CALLING THE COPS
(Source: jaclcfrost)
Here are some awesome and empowering quotes from several very strong female celebrities.
And Kristen Stewart.
No, you know what? Fuck you.
Let me tell you about Kristen Stewart.
Let’s talk about how she’s the centerpiece of one of the most inexplicably popular misogynistic pieces of film shit and somehow gets blamed for it sucking, despite the fact that, hey, the books were actually worse. For those who were lucky enough to escape reading the actual books, her apparent lack of emotion is 100% accurate to Bella’s character, because Bella is in fact not a character but a blank white wall for fourteen-year-old girls to project themselves onto. Robert Pattinson is not the only one in the cast who hates Twilight, thank you.
Let’s talk about how she got crucified in the media for having an affair with a married man, when that man was her director. And let’s remember that she was called all manner of things for “ruining her relationship with RPattz” when she wasn’t even engaged to the dude, let alone married with kids. But oh no, she gets called a slut because she’s Kristen Stewart, she gets her career fucked because she’s Kristen Stewart, and the dude gets off scott free.
Let’s talk about how she is incredibly shy and anxious (rather, incidentally, like Chris Evans) but does film anyway, because she’s just that awesome.
Fuck your noise. She’s not the best actor in the world but she sure as hell doesn’t deserve that kind of shit.
ALL of this. Fuck the Kristen Stewart hate.
No woman deserves that kind of shit.
I love Kirsten Stewart. Hate Twilight. Love her.
Totally derailing this conversation, but: why is no one talking about what Roseanne said?
“Nobody is gonna give you power; you have to take it.”
This seems important.
IRELAND’S NEWEST STAMP features an entire short story written by a talented Dublin teenager.
Now there’s a market you won’t crack every day.
No one quite has a way with the English language like the Irish.
iwillincendiotheheartoutofyou:
‘All the women in Doctor Who fall in love with the Doctor’
1. No they don’t
2. Just the women?
Abortion in Ireland
Facts, figures, and information about abortion in Ireland and the effects of illegality. Please share.
Look; if Ireland, ONE OF THE MOST STRIDENTLY CATHOLIC NATIONS IN THE WORLD, recognises that women NEED abortion services, that’s how they called it in the video, NEED not WANT, then why in the fuck can’t America get their heads out of their arses and understand what’s going on? Is there a video like this in the States? Abortions grouped by age, number per year? most of the stuff I end up seeing focuses on socio- economic breakdowns, for better or for worse.
