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Cake day: July 26th, 2023

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  • Half the time its not even unauthorized. “What do you mean this website I uploaded to whose TOS allows them to license out my images licensed out my images??”

    I got into photography for a while ages ago when I was in highschool and even back then for my shitty landscape photos I was keenly aware of which hosting services respected my rights as copyright holder, apparently that’s too high of a bar to clear for many semi-professional artists. Now the models that did just scrape anything and everything, yeah that’s outright copyright theft. And how much you care about copyright theft is something else entirely.













  • “My grandmother was paid to recite material, it’s literally theft of my heritage that I, her grandchild, do not own the distribution rights to that specific recording”

    If they were trying to copyright the stories or the language that would be one thing but it’s just their recordings and material they’ve produced. He probably shouldn’t have used his position at the school as part of his slander campaign if he didn’t want to risk losing it. If there was no professional misconduct then his licensure isn’t at much risk.

    All he had to do to avoid consequences was not double down on saying “a non-profit paying someone to talk into a microphone is literally theft in a criminal sense”. If he wants to ignore a reasonable cease and desist so he can continue to lie about a nonprofit he should pay his own legal fees about it.


  • “No matter how it was collected, where it was collected, when it was collected, our language belongs to us. Our stories belong to us. Our songs belong to us,” Taken Alive,

    Ok sure you can say that but when somebody receives payment in exchange for being recorded reciting a story signs over the rights to the recording you, the grandchild of the person who actually did the performance for the recording, do not own the rights to that recording.

    If you actually read the SDDE complaint (link from the fundraiser) or the C&D they’re pretty damning. This guy sucks, don’t give him money.

    *You should especially not give him money because this legal fund is for a hearing that happened a year ago and he never turned off the fundraiser lol