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2023-09-27T22:34:18Z
Copyright. It's one of those things in law that's (ab)used to keep control of how stuff goes around.
Here's the story: I have a YouTube channel, I made videos on it. Because I decided that I do not want to deal with copyright strikes and stuff, I'm going to make everything myself, if possible.
Copyright strikes? Yeah, I have dealt with it before. I took a video (the video which was probably stolen from another video, maybe with permission?), changed like 2 things, then uploaded it. I then got a copyright strike from the video I took (not from the original original video), and well, yeah. I learned a lesson.
So, my new goal for my YouTube channel was to never have to deal with copyright strikes again. Which meant creating my own stuff myself without the help of others since I probably can't rely on other people's copyright for my stuff.
The Minecraft skin, my (previous) avatar, the ideas, everything. All myself if possible, to avoid potential copyright strikes at all.
Of course, that meant that I had to be an everything person. A one man show that does everything. Which by the way, is pretty difficult, especially if you want to specialize in one thing and not have to care about other things like finance, legal and etc.
And a person probably shouldn't do everything by themselves. Like that's just very difficult. Is it really possible to be both a programmer and an artist? Maybe, but the chances of a lawyer who also does programming and music, taking the copyright for all* melodies then throwing it into the public domain is one and it has already happened. But that's just 1 out of 8 billion people in this world.
I still don't know how work with electrical stuff and the risk of death/potential legal fines seems unfavorable, so I'd rather call someone else who knows how to do electrical stuff. With individualism, it's more like doing everything yourself, even the electrical stuff (which could be fatal or illegal).
Outside of electrical work, how do you even exist in the first place? You need to be fed and taken care of, especially when you're not feeling well. You usually do that yourself, but when you're sick, your energy mostly goes to resolving that sickness or whatever. And because your energy got sucked away, how are you going to feed yourself if you have no energy to prepare the food?
You can't create something out of pure thin air. My funny micro posts don't exist in a vacuum, nor come from a vacuum. My ideas aren't 100% original, and I made my clock profile picture with a GIF I stolen from the Wikimedia Commons.
The original clock GIF I stole from
My version of the clock GIF (just removes background)
Let the people be free with creative work.
(And I'll let you in on a secret: My Minecraft skin is based on another Minecraft skin which I stole from somewhere. I only changed it a tiny bit. Plus is based off of some character.)
Additional related stuff:
Sustainable creativity in a world without copyright
