Tuesday, March 26, 2019
No, wait.
Halfway listening to a discussion of EU's new copyright rules. Automatic response: THOSE FUCKING TYRANTS! THEY'RE SQUASHING FREEDOM!
No. Wait. Stop.
That's a blind overgeneralized team-loyalty reflex. EU is generally tyrannical, so this rule must be tyrannical.
In fact my own PRINCIPLES and VESTED INTERESTS both agree with strict copyright laws.
My small income derives from royalties on graphics and courseware.
More to the point, my tiresomely repeated 'principles' are strongly in favor of MAKING THINGS. From long experience and observation, I know that the best cure for individual and national depression and collapse is DEVELOPING YOUR OWN SKILLS and MAKING YOUR OWN STUFF.
I should be PURELY on EU's side of this issue, even in the realm of blogging.
What I write here doesn't depend on linking to news articles or quoting from news articles. If I had to be strict, it wouldn't make a lot of difference; I could still refer to a current news theme and narrate its meaning in my own words.
I mostly use my own graphics here, just as in courseware. I don't rely on premade GIFs. Again, following the rule strictly wouldn't make a big difference. A quick look at the last few months shows about 20% of the pictures are derived from screencaps of online stuff, which would be forbidden by the EU rule. 80% is either my own work, or scanned from magazines that I've paid for.
In "rights" vs duties form: Nobody has a "god-given right" to use stuff they haven't paid for. Everyone has a GOD-ASSIGNED DUTY to make more life, more value, more beauty. This new rule discourages taking and encourages making. Despite the source, it's a good and godly rule.
Labels: From rights to duties, Make or break, skill-estate
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