Imagine of everyone on tumblr got together in one event and discussed fandom things and met their friends irl for the first time. It would end up terrible.
☆彡★彡 protect lesbian transgirls and gay transboys 2k15 ☆彡★彡
Protect them from what?
Lesbian trans girls and gay trans boys face a lot more stigma from both the LGBT+ community and society than other trans people for a number of reasons on top of the stigma and and dangers trans people already face, most often with questions such as “why not just be a straight girl or boy” or people outright telling them that they are faking being trans under the assumption that you cannot be transgender and gay at the same time, as gender and sexuality are very different things and completely different concepts.
I could be sad that Pluto is currently classified as a dwarf planet.
Rather, I choose to look at this this way: Pluto wears its beard in man-braids, carries a battleaxe, and is handily available for tossing into a legion of orcs.
Dwarf planets.
They’re awesome.
And we’ve got a whole army of them camped out in the outer Solar System, protecting us from space orcs.
Represent.
I…
I’m surprisingly okay with this
I am 5000% on board for this type of thinking.
In fact, I am so on board with this idea, I have named the dwarf Heartbeard. Heartbeard shall protect us from invading Orcs.
Okay, so reading the actual Law as it’s written in legalese, I even MORE think people on Tumblr are freaking out over nothing. To TL;DR it in human speak, it says along the lines of:
If you want to make a work based on something you find on the internet (Let’s say a drawing on DA), then you have to TRY and find the copyright holder. Not just a “Google search, do I find them? Nope! This is mine now” but like, a DETECTIVE level search for them.
This means E-mails, websites they are on, usernames they go by, addresses, phone numbers, the works. You HAVE to TRY and find the Owner of that work.
Then and ONLY THEN can you file a copyright for it to make it yours.
BUT IF THEY ARE USING THAT PROPERTY, AND YOU’RE JUST UNDER A DIFFERENT NAME, then you can still file for Infringement because you have been posting the same content and still have full copyright on your work.
This literally means you have to basically be dead, go completely dark, or not care at all for someone to take a piece of work you posted up and make it their own.
The other half is about pieces of work that have so many people help make it literally no one knows who has copyright on what.
Example: Slenderman. 1 guy on a Forum made the original pictures. Marble Hornets then made a popular Youtube series that added to that lore. Slender: The Arrival then made collecting pages popular. Various other people added Proxies, and Symbols, and new characters, etc, etc
In the case of this, they want to Create an organization where all of those Copyright holders can choose to be a part of it or not, and you all get compensation if someone comes along and decides to use part of your idea.
Literally no one will be able to just casually steal your ideas or your copyrights and they’re not being ‘flushed down the toilet’ as a popular image is showing.
So yeah, basically as far as I can tell Tumblr is upset over basically nothing. They think the scary legal speak is saying “Gov’munt gonna come and steal mah baby!” when in actuality the new Copyright bill is about giving the people the ability to create projects out of things that either no one cares about/owns anymore anyway, or so many people are part of the project that it’s just easier to split the compensation anyway.
If you have specific examples from the law itself that proves me wrong, then by all means feel free to correct me, but otherwise it’s all just mass hysteria, as per usual on this website.
