For Just $70.00 - Printed Via Dye Sublimation On Poly-fleece。 - Poly-fleece Fabric Sourced From California

...as a copyright minimalist, it really pisses me off that so few people in my corner bother to try and come up with very good solutions to "How do artists make a living."

Like… so many of them just fucking default to "use donation models supported by true fans uwu" and while that can work, even most of the top fucking eschelon of creators on Patreon are basically making poverty wages, and most people who make a living have to treat it as one of many income streams, because again, it's not fucking enough.

Not at the scale artists need, and the way some people in "my" corner ignore that to moralize while failing to come up with better solutions infuriates me.

Like, you'd be surprised that I could be called relatively conservative on my current demands wrt copyright reduction, specifically for reduction back to 56 years in the US (Life + 50 in the countries where applicable) and massive expansion of fair use.

This is because these are things that are doable now without fucking over artists.

I want more, but I am painfully aware that'd be a much bigger project because you'd need to overhaul so much about how we economically handle art as a society, and it pisses me off how nobody's looking for those solutions beyond platitudes!

I've seen a few decent ideas. A "Mario Kart" version of copyright, where the larger in scale a works' rightsholder is the less protection it gets, was suggested by one person, I'd say mutually-supporting collectives based around Creative Commons works (Think akin to the SCP Foundation) would be a good start, as would long-term income-y government art grants that require the stuff produced under them to go into the Public Domain.

Even beyond that, the Peer Production License is also a great way to open up your ideas as well without making them vulnerable to corporate exploitation, that's worth looking into.

But like, we need more of those, and it does piss me off that people supposedly in "my" corner call artists entitled babies for pointing out the problem here!

It's the big obstacle to actually getting shit done, stop calling artists fascist for wanting moral rights Patricia and come up with something that actually works!

Fruit Punch

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Reads left to right

Higher resolution in me bio https://www.instagram.com/p/BwILN_7A9NJ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1r3fb2c998fok

After school freak out https://www.instagram.com/p/BqoecpTAJ58/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=i0beit825d74

What Do You Think You’re Doing? by Kaiser Caimo

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An aggressively ugly digital zine about making art. Available in full as a pdf for free/pay what you want here: https://gum.co/lUpii

I like being able to make what I want. I like this ugly dying website. I like that the  largest and most accessible archive of my work as an artist is a page of the internet so obscure it might as well be the palm of my hand.

🌱Different versions! ✨

For an 8ft.x 8ft. vinyl wall that’ll be on display at AnimeNYC. It’s worth the $500 if it comes out how I think it will :’ ) Spent all night vectorizing it just right (this one is a JPEG tho) 🌱

Gonna get some more sleep and enjoy Sunday a tad, hope you all are able to as well! 🖤🤖

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well anyway. the copyright system exists to commodify art and expression and process it into more money for larger companies, and it is actively detrimental to efforts for preservation, open education, and creation. everyone reading this is morally obligated to hoard and share data because we live in a world that is hostile to the idea that books or music or movies or scholarship have inherent value independent of a DRM stamp and ticket price. btw fuck hachette, harpercollins, wiley and penguin random house.