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Trolls, haters, no imagination, just cut & paste: stolen art being used in all the wrong places.

Intelligence not required to troll, judge, or distract from valid dialogue or analysis on the internet... copying without guilt.

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Tiny Texas Houses Newsletter
Sep 19, 2021
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In a country that has gone to franchising ideas, restaurants, and so many things being trademarked, the thought is that copyrights or patents somehow protect you from your creations or work being pirated and used for free. In the past the idea of paying for the use was a norm, or giving credit for who created art, writing, music, or such things of marketable value, they could expect to get paid or given recognition so as to do yet greater things.

Today idea theft is rampant and without guilt. People use the artwork, the music, the videos, the words and faces or works of others to promote themselves or attack those they do not like on the internet. Copiers, humans that just repeat over and again the same image, Gif, or other stolen creations and add insults with the intent to do psychological injury to others from a distance. Not what the artist intended I suspect.

Insanity comes out in the form of Gifs, copied and pasted images or icons, sayings of others that are profound but not…

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