Ah Monday How you Loom Ahead of Me

[puppetmaker]

As I have stated previously, Monday’s are my busy day or rather my most scheduled day of the week. Other days have one or two things attached to them but I pretty much know what I am doing on Monday during the school year.

Today I have a few things I need to shoe-horn in with the usual schedule. I sat down with a piece of paper and a pencil and I figured out how I am going to do them too. So I am set for the day.

There is an interesting ruling in copyright law and fair use that has many photographers cheering. You can find a good article about it at ArtInfo. It is interesting reading as to both sides either cheering or crying in the blog-o-sphere about the implications of the ruling. Being a long time photographer, I am happy to see this ruling. I know it is not the end of it, but at least it is being talked about finally.

This weekend was a busy one at Bleed Cool as they exposed an artist for making derivative works on top of other people’s works and being a rather cunning liar about who they have worked for and what they had done in the industry. Basically in one weekend the house of cards that they build came falling all around them. I think I am a bit angry because he brought a couple of my friends into the mix as people that he worked for or ghosted for. I think the ghosted part annoyed me more than anything else since the artists in question take pride in being able to finish their projects. Plus he used the name of a friend who passed away recently as one of the people he worked for.

There was the usual every three months blow-up on the doll board about using pieces of patterns without credit which lead to a lot of heated discussion about when does a work become an original. There was another pattern that was published in a leading doll pattern magazine that was a tracing including the original pattern makers marking of a doll pattern from the early 70s that the artist still sells to this day. Part of the reason I make my own patterns.

I am grateful at artists who respect other artists work and rights to that work.

Comments

[wherdafux-d-cat.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the Artinfo piece. The Q&A is especially interesting. I can only hope this wakes a few people up. (Alas, the types that do this are also likely the types that think their 'art' is different so it doesn't apply to them.)