Cormac

I believe it's just an excluded no-mans land of worry-free listening.

Unless of course you GDPR your entire data set and up they pop again

It's winning games like this that are the most important ones!

This is the first year where I genuinely don't even know who my top artist is going to be. I couldn't even give you a predicted top three.

I am genuinely worried about what will come out 😂

Especially in times of crisis, or fast flowing news, are people necessarily going to stop and check whether they're retweeting @ news[.]nytimes[.]com and @ news[.]newyorktimes[.]site? ($2 to set up today)

If I bought billgates[.]foundation (~$5 currently), set it to redirect to the real address, and set up a bluesky purporting to be the official account...

Of course anyone with a little bit of technical knowledge could easily debunk. But how would average Joe who just comes across my post?

I love how you know what our ribbons get used for.

Ailbhe thanks you for your service 🐱🫡

Yep, £1.12 total over the last three years!

Accounts for Bert points and that I pay for all my Bert's books with national book tokens.

Doesn't account for the ~0.2% higher credit card rewards I'd get from Jeff. Who can be arsed with that.

If anyone wants the numbers, I've just gone through all my Bert orders since July 2021 and checked them against historical Jeff prices.

My net Bert Book's premium was a grand total of...

£1.12

Less than half the price of one Jeff's books giftwrap.

Add in Berts points and the fact you can regularly get 5-10% discounts or cashback on national book tokens, and Bert often comes in even cheaper than Jeff.

Quite genuinely though, if any single person has been the most instrumental in pushing me to actually break the habit, it's been you. So thanks for that.

I'm basically coming off now, but for me there's a fourth factor: nostalgia and sheer head-in-sand stubbornness.

I've been on twitter since early 2009. I've been opening that app and seeing some of those people for half my life. It feels so odd to just... Walk away.

Ikr. If they write something at 20, and live to 95 they might just nudge in a century. I'd love to know what magic dust they're inhaling to "easily exceed" 😂

Happy badger badger mushroom mushroom day to those who celebrate

Absolutely right.

If I open a FF with "Harry looked out the window of the hogwarts express", 9 words tell you he's is a wizard, going to school, famous, etc. You probs have a pre-existing opinion of him.

Why? Not through anything I did. JKR et al did all that work for me. Writing FF is different.

The characters are very often practically synonymous with the work. (And can be damaged by misuse of the IP).

What's Harry Potter without Harry? What's Hound of the Baskervilles without Sherlock? Of *course* the characters count. Similarly with Hogwarts. Or Rivendel. Or Narnia. They're iconic.

it's not about the process of creating. It's about protecting the authors right to their work. That's why it's usually life of author +Xyrs.

Sure it doesn't magically change between X and X-1, but that's laws for you. The principle stands: protect the author's work for *a time* - then make public.

You make it, you own it. Real simple. People can *choose* to work for free, but they don't *have* to.

If you're forced to create with no way to own your creations, in the end everyone works for free.

I'd rather people had the choice to work for free than were always forced to.

If you create original work you should have sole right to [decide who] profit[s] from it until the expiration of your copyright. That's the single rationale. It's really that simple.

If you want to write for profit, write original, non-derivative ideas. Otherwise, feel free to write for fun.

That's deriving public domain work; work that is old enough that the copyright has expired.

Which, as I've previously said more than once, is a good thing that should also be protected. This *is* an area where Disney et. al have skewed the system.

Copyright is good. So is copyright expiration.

The law needs to distinguish because otherwise no one gets compensated for anything. Disney, Netflix, et al could simply appropriate any content they like and profit off it with no compensation to the author. We've been through this. I'm increasingly convinced this misunderstanding is willful.

Straw man, but still easy:

Writing derivatives of copyrighted work should be a hobby.

You can turn it into a job by either a) obtaining the permission of, and compensating, the original author b) writing your own original work.

It's really not that hard.

I think they might be a troll.

They if they can't/won't understand that the law can't differentiate between me selling a smutty fanfic online for $2 and Netflix finding said fanfic and making it into a $200m movie without my consent (and therefore bans both) then I'm not sure it's worth engaging.

Yes, fanfic should be a hobby. You can turn it into a job by obtaining the permission of and compensating the original author.

He really doesn't seem to understand that his quest to monetise his own fanfiction will result in the wholesale destruction of value in *all* copyrighted works.

He gains cents. Destroys dollars for everyone else.

If he wanted to monetise as a job, he could always write his own original work.

Gotcha - fair enough. Standing still is absolutely better than going backwards.

Totally agree - tweet I was replying to appeared to imply it was a binary between copyright extensions or nothing.

Agree with Neil, and may have misinterpreted.

Shorter terms?

Oh, I didn't realise we were talking purely selfishly.

In that case, sure. To maximise short-medium term gain specifically for Big Worker, go for it. Fuck every other creator who isn't a mega-corp and enjoy free access to all Disney's assets, I guess. Who needs creatives anyway. 🤷‍♂️

A lot of people seem to be really forgetting that "copyright is good for creators" and "100 years is too long for copyright to last" can both be true.

I can't see how an author who writes a book can be at all enthused by the idea that their book could, as soon as it's published, be turned into a hundred different competing for-profit spin offs and sequels that directly competes with and drowns out their original work, at no compensation to them.