- Created By shonenchicklets
I Want Answers.
Ugh. What's all this about an Orphan Bill?
It seems to me like people are making a huge fuss over this, especially the anime artists. Do you really think we have anything to worry about? Do you REALLY think that some big corporation or museum is going to want to use our anime style art for logos? Honestly?
But still, it worries me.
From the ASMP article about this:
"What are 'Orphan Works'?
As described in a 2005 report that the Copyright Office prepared for Congress, an "orphan work" is a work (such as an image) that is protected by copyright but whose copyright owner cannot be identified and located."
What excactly do they mean by "indentified and located"? Do I really have to compromise my safety on the internet by posting my whole name and street adress? Or would a valid email adress do just fine?
Orphaned. What exactly does that mean, anyway? Work that everybody has ignored? The above definition just isn't enough, yeah?
Do I really think this bill will pass? No. Not really. Not with so many OTHER issues. High gas prices, war, and the like. In my opinion, this is just going to be a thwarted ploy for the government to get money from a group of people they don't think really matter.
Yes. You heard what I said. I don't think the government thinks artists really matter. Why else do you think they would be taking art and music programs out of school? I'll tell you why. It's because art and music aren't 'real careers'. The government doesn't want people to draw for a living. They want to fill there heads up with science and math and have our children be rocket scientists and...and....I dunno. Something. Brain surgeons. Also, why else would they be trying to pass some stupid bill like this.
Honestly, I want ANSWERS, before this gets too out of hand.
) I want the truth. Is this bill really cancelled or what?
2) Techinically, they can't take "orphaned" fan art, right? Because fan art TECHINICALLY is copy righted, right?
3) will water marks really prevent my work from being stolen?
4) Who would really want my sucky anime art, anyway? I doubt any big corportations are going to want to use my chibis and neko girls for logos.
5) Is it really safe to be posting art anywhere like theOtaku or DeviantArt is this bill is still in progress?
6) Who's idea was this fricckin' bill anyway? Whoever it was needs to be shot, in the first place, and have his bill making rights revoked in the second place. I mean, honestly... who comes up with this? Was he bored and decided to make such a stupid bill.
7) The government can be stupid, but are they really THAT stupid to pass this bill? I mean, honestly, with so many other issues at hand.
8) Why aren't there more artists representing the not-passing of this bill?
9) What EXACTLY does Orphan Works mean?
10) Do I, as an amatuer anime artist, need to be worried?
11) should I take my work off deviant art?
Anybody who can answer these questions, please do.
I'll be off watermarking my work. -_- Just to be on the safe side.
Note: the essay is strictly MY opinion and not anyone elses. No flames, no nothing. I just want simple, staight answers.
The biggest question?
Should I be worried?
Essay: 04/17/08 | Posted By: shonenchicklets | 0 comments | Personal |
Even in my dreams...
Okay, so I had this dream last night.
I am basically watching and Inu Yasha movie in my head.
Not one already made, but with it's own story line and everything and it was in FULL COLOR ANIME. IT WAS SO AMAZING. Anyways, the plot was something about Inu Yasha on a...quest isn't the right word, but quest I guess.... he was on a quest to find a field of blue and pink flowers for this adorable Chii-look a like lamb demon named Tobi. Yes, a lamb demon girl named Tobi. And she has lavender hair.
There was this amazing scene where Miroku and Kagome were holding up Inu Yasha (wounded or tired I'm guessing) and Tobi tackles him because she's scared and inu yasha screams something along the lines of "I'll find that field for you!"
This is where the weirdness starts. It goes to a scene of Inu Yasha fina;;y finding the field, only just over the hill an evil army of goblin things has set it on fire. Inu Yasha goes crazy and it cuts to a scene of him telling Tobi what happened and then switches back to this epic fight scene of Inu Yasha versus goblin things. Only Inu Yasha is in human form with his hair in a pony tail and the reason he doesn't have any doggy ears is because HE'S TAKEN THEM OFF AND IS USING THEM AS WEAPONS because apparently his ears are held in by daggers.
And then it cuts to Tobi and Kagome and Miroku and Sango and Shippo, but mostly Tobi, fighting.
And then it goes to this weirdly violent but not gory scene of the goblins rusing Inu Yasha and stabbing him with swords but it doesn't even hurt Inu Yasha it just breaks their swords.
And then there is something about arrows and the goblins commiting suicide because they couldn't win against Inu Yasha and then it's over and CREDITS ROLLS WITH A BIRD FLYING OVER A FIELD OF BLUE AND PINK FLOWERS IN THE BACKROUND.
And then it switches to "real life" and me and my sister are sitting in a living room now watching a commercial for some new reality show. And then I woke up and thought "ARGH. MY fangirlisms are getting into my dreams! AWESOME."
And now I have an inu yasha fan character with a great story.
Life: 04/11/08 | Posted By: shonenchicklets | 0 comments | Inuyasha |
I Love Odd Thomas
Odd Thomas.
Manga.
Soon.
OMG A MIX OF TWO OF MY FAV THINGS!
I am sooooooooooooooooooo happy even though in the one sketch I've seen of Stormy she looks like a hooker.
http://www.deankoontz.com/whats-new/press-releases/odd-thomas-manga-press-release.php
Life: 04/07/08 | Posted By: shonenchicklets | 0 comments |
Springtime in the South
-sigh-
It's officially springtime in Alabama.
The weather is HORRIBLE right now, I'm surprised my internet works.
Tornado warnings everywhere, schools in lock down.
My family is home but we have the amatuer meterologist/storm chaser/photographer/Computer God aka Daddy here with us so it's all good. We have the bathroom set and ready to go with pillows, blankets, a lantern, plushies for the babies and of couse... a novel and my cell phone for me. The babies won't shut up but whatever. My dad showed me a few minutes ago the rotation in the clouds outside. Scary. I've seen it before, just not in real life right out side our house. It was really eerie. The sirens have gone off at least three times.
And the weirdest thing is that when the weather started up me and my sister were doing our own hair for my mom's wedding which brings me to another point. My mom has been telling us that her friend would do our hair nice for the wedding, as a treat. And also possibly as a trade off for having to wear a hideous champagne colored dress and ugly jewelry that I'm probably allergic too. But she informed us TODAY, the DAY of her wedding, that we would not be getting our hair done and that me and my sister basically had to fend for ourselves from the neck up. Meaning makeup, hair... and my mom is supposed to come and get us in a little more than an hour and my hair is only blow dried. I guess I'm wearing it plain and straight unless my sister can do something with it AFTER she gets hers done. Wwhy don't I do my own hair you ask?I can't. I'm utterly UN-girly.My hair, even for a wedding, would probably just get pulled back in a ponytail with some bits left down.
-sigh-
Not to mention my mom was basically planning on leaving us home alone after the reception so that she and her friends can go to a bar. Unh-uh, I don't think so. I asked my step-mom is she could come get us, me and my sister and brother, afterwards. I mean, we even looked at the custody papers and BY LAW me and my siblings are not allowed to be unsupervised in the prescene of those under the influence of alchohol. And even, due to the surgery she had a few years ago, though my mom probably won't get PLASTERED like my new step-dad probably will, she will probably come home buzzed which is in fact, drunk.
So yah. AND not only that BUT I found out the other day that my mom basically doesn't like my boyfriend because he's "over-protective" and "possesive", which isn't true. He loves me and he wants to protect me.
Crap, sirens are going off for the fifth time. I hope its an all clear. I think so because the tornado warning was only supposed to last until 3 pm.
Anyways, back to my mom vs boyfriend contreversy. The reason it makes me mad is because ONCE my boyfriend punched some things when two drunk old guys, friends of my new step-dad, started messing with me (pulling on the chopstick in my hair, patting my back, messing with my phone, calling me names like "honey" and "little girl") and him wanting to come get me when that happened automatically makes him possessive and overprotective and qaulifies him for having "anger problems". NOT ONLY THAT, but my mom acts so hypocritical. We go somewhere and its "Why don't you invite him?" or something like that. So she acts like she likes him but really doesn't and I hate that. I hate lying hypocrites.
So now, just in case my mom gets in a bad mood and he comes over and she starts tearing into him, I can't see him when I'm with my mom. I can't go out, or have him over when I stay with her on the weekends. Which sucks, because I'm only with my dad one or two weekends out of the month so that doesn't leave us a lot of oppurtunities to go out and see a movie or go manga shopping or just hang at my house and watch a movie and throw popcorn at each other. All because my mom lies and because she has so different morals than me. She would have NO problem leaving us alone in a room together. She doesn't care. I guess that's why she got pregnant with me when she was my age. 16.
Yeah.
Life is weird as a sixteen year old, homeschooled Christian otaku, 5 foot one girl trying to get a job at Winn-Dixie living smack in the middle of tornado alley.
Good news is, I'm going to prom! I got my dress it's SO pretty. It's a darkish blue, really long and flowy and sort of bunched at the waist with these awesome fanned out sleeves. My boyfriend nosebled when he saw me in it.
Life: 04/04/08 | Posted By: shonenchicklets | 0 comments |
This is interesting.
My cosplay article got published. NICE.
What's not so nice?
The fact that I think my colored inu yasha pic wasn't posted because it looked too real.
*slaps artistic talent* LEAVE ME ALONE.
Well, I guess I have no choice but to try submitting it again. Also, if you will notice if it does get publish.... some of the coloring is patchy and pixely, especially around the beads... and the back of hair, on either side of the neck, isn't shaded right.
so nyeh. I did draw it. Heh heh.
Life: 03/30/08 | Posted By: shonenchicklets | 0 comments |