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• On the post: Clearview Celebrates 10 Billion Scraped Images Collected, Claims It Can Now Recognize Blurred, Masked Faces

  

  Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 15 Oct, 2021 @ 09:05am

  Odd thought, could their scraping websites for photos be a copyright infringement? Photos do have copyright attached, and while Facebook et.al, have permissive licenses, they have not actually then sublicenced the scraped images to Clearview, who arguably then creates commercial derivative work from them, in the form of their face maps.

• On the post: Journalists In St. Louis Discover State Agency Is Revealing Teacher Social Security Numbers; Governors Vows To Prosecute Journalists As Hackers

  

  Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 15 Oct, 2021 @ 09:00am

  Seems he's in the position of blaming the expense of putting guardrails on a bridge on the driver who took a picture of the bridge to show they built it without them.

• On the post: AT&T Set Up And Paid For OAN Propaganda Network; Yet Everyone Wants To Scream About Facebook

  

  Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 07 Oct, 2021 @ 11:51am

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  Can you say “in-kind campaign contribution” ?

• On the post: AT&T Set Up And Paid For OAN Propaganda Network; Yet Everyone Wants To Scream About Facebook

  

  Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 07 Oct, 2021 @ 06:41am

  Re:

  Can you say “in-kind campaign contribution” ?

• On the post: Sony Pictures, Defenders Of The Creative Industry, Appears To Be Using Fan Art Without Giving Credit

  

  Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 26 Sep, 2021 @ 06:45am

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  It’s not wierd, the point was to illustrate that the pose is a generic catwalk strut. I grabbed the first link I found of catwalk poses, to demonstrate. iAnd as I’ve mentioned above, the contours have more differences than just the slant of the shoulders, what caught my eye is that the Sony artist got the anatomy at the knees and lower right, where the fan art blew it.

• On the post: Sony Pictures, Defenders Of The Creative Industry, Appears To Be Using Fan Art Without Giving Credit

  

  Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 26 Sep, 2021 @ 06:31am

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  It’s not wierd, the point was to illustrate that the pose is a generic catwalk strut. I grabbed the first link I found of catwalk poses, to demonstrate. iAnd as I’ve mentioned above, the contours have more differences than just the slant of the shoulders, what caught my eye is that the Sony artist got the anatomy at the knees and lower right, where the fan art blew it.

• On the post: Sony Pictures, Defenders Of The Creative Industry, Appears To Be Using Fan Art Without Giving Credit

  

  Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 25 Sep, 2021 @ 04:36am

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  I wasn’t going for an exact match, just demonstrating the generic class, one foot in front of the other, hips and shoulders tilted,simply becUse the body does that when walking, one hand curled one hand flexed is a pretty generic “catwalk” pose, I detailed some of the other difences above, the most glaring being that the Sony artist didn’t fall into the “legs tapering off at the knees” bad artists anatomy trap the original did. The Sony artist may well have seen the fan art, and took inspiration on the pose in his picture from it, but that doesn’t change the fact that’s it’s a very commonly used pose in pin up art.

• On the post: Sony Pictures, Defenders Of The Creative Industry, Appears To Be Using Fan Art Without Giving Credit

  

  Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 24 Sep, 2021 @ 11:45am

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  You start really looking at it, and especially if you look at a blown up version like in buzzfeed separated at birth with a close up of the poster that’s -not- cropped to the knee, you start seeing more, the knees in the poster don’t like up vertically like they do in the fanart, you can see the lower leg curve out again higher on the right, where the outward curve of the lower leg is absent entirely in the fan art, the body is a bit thiccker in the poster, and the meeting of arm and body isn’t behind she-venom’s busom. And if you’ve looked around, that curled/splayed hand pose is incredibly commonly used, if for no other reason than they’re both easier to draw than most other hand poses.

• On the post: Sony Pictures, Defenders Of The Creative Industry, Appears To Be Using Fan Art Without Giving Credit

  

  Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 24 Sep, 2021 @ 11:21am

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  Yeah, both Sony and the fan artist using a stupidly commonly used pose is a quite reasonable explanation.

• On the post: Sony Pictures, Defenders Of The Creative Industry, Appears To Be Using Fan Art Without Giving Credit

  

  Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 24 Sep, 2021 @ 11:13am

  Re: Re: Re: Ah copyright hypocrisy...

  Tell me how imaginary it is,since people publish pose books for just that purpose. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/546272629801560467/ Take a look at #11 there.. That pose file is literally the first thing when you google catwalk poses.

• On the post: Edvard Eriksen Estate Goes After Another Danish City For Having A Mermaid Statue

  

  Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 24 Sep, 2021 @ 06:54am

  Re: There is actual case around this topics...

  The problem with your argument is that the fame of the statue comes from it’s relationship with Hans Christian Anderson, unless those other cities somehow manage to fake that relationship, then they’re doing it wrong.

• On the post: Sony Pictures, Defenders Of The Creative Industry, Appears To Be Using Fan Art Without Giving Credit

  

  Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 24 Sep, 2021 @ 06:13am

  Re: Re: Re: Ah copyright hypocrisy...

  taps his large collection of “Pose File” artist reference books that are published with the express intention of the pics being used in that manner

• On the post: Sony Pictures, Defenders Of The Creative Industry, Appears To Be Using Fan Art Without Giving Credit

  

  Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 24 Sep, 2021 @ 06:08am

  I’m an artist, I’ve done a bloody lot of fan art in my time, but the mutual use of sexy menacing catwalk strut #1, ( https://www.elle.com/uk/fashion/celebrity-style/articles/a31869/an-analysis-of-the-most-iconic-supermodel-runway-walks/ ) does not copyright infringement make. It’s suspicious, sure, but in the end it’s suspicious like late night mail-in ballot dumps for Biden were. When it comes down to it, saying this copies the fan art is the same argument about being able to copyright the “feel” of a song folks here say should be rejected in the Blurred lines case.

• On the post: Angry Anti-Masker Sues Joe Biden, Facebook, And Twitter Because His Social Media Was Taken Down For Disinfo

  

  Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 17 Sep, 2021 @ 10:13am

  I would lay good money that his FOIA, was for communications between OMB/HHS and Facebook/Twitter, ordering the takedown of his post, and they didn't respond because there weren't any to find.

• On the post: Texas Legislature Says You Can't Teach About Racism In Schools, But Social Media Sites Must Host Holocaust Denialism

  

  Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 07 Sep, 2021 @ 08:12am

  Re: Re: Re: Save It For The Water Cooler

  Blockquote Determining classroom curriculum is not an attack on free speech.

  Tell that to John Thomas Scopes

• On the post: Stupid Patent Of The Month: This Captcha Patent Is An All-American Nightmare

  

  Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 12 Aug, 2021 @ 03:28pm

  So, with these cases, let me ask a stupid question, why don't the companies simply claim patent exhaustion and ask that they be replaced with Google?

• On the post: Louisiana & Alabama Attorneys General Set Up Silly Hotline To Report 'Social Media Censorship' They Can't Do Anything About

  

  Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2021 @ 04:23pm

  I had a go-around with Spreadshirt the other day over a T-shirt design with an icon of orange circle with a yellow wave on top asking "MAGA: Where Are You?", and responding "SARS-COV19: I'm In Your Base Killing Your Doodz" - despite the ample amount of Trump merchandise on spreadshirt I was told my design did not make the grade, solely because it featured the Trump-ish icon..

  So I am -so- totally going to report their censorship...

  :P

• On the post: Anti-Vaxxers Countermeasures Show Why It's Not So Simple To Just 'Delete' Anti-Vax Misinfo On Social Media

  

  Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 02 Aug, 2021 @ 06:21am

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  "When was the last time allopathic medicine actually cured anything?" Well, that would be the last time someone beat an infection using antibiotics, which would probably be within the last few minutes.

• On the post: Anti-Vaxxers Countermeasures Show Why It's Not So Simple To Just 'Delete' Anti-Vax Misinfo On Social Media

  

  Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 02 Aug, 2021 @ 06:19am

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  "I was just asking a question, not trolling" https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions

• On the post: Judge Tosses Candace Owens's Litigious Attempt To Turn Facebook Fact-Checking Into Defamation

  

  Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2021 @ 06:03am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: 'Showing people I'm a liar hurts my

  Why bother to link to the original article? Once you read everything that's in that screen cap, all the highlighted text says is that -at they time the wrote the article- (which might be months before it's publication date) there hadn't been big enough trials to pin down a solid number on the degree of protection offered by the vaccine, in a particular subset of the population. While the phrasing of the link implies that they haven't proved that it offer's protection, this is a false premise, they simply haven't been able or nobody had published a reliably certain calculation of the correlation yet.

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