Sister Girl's Life Is Better Than Mine, Day Three

[cleolinda]

"HEY..."

"Yeah?"

"I KNOW IT'S LOUD IN HERE [at ComicCon], SORRY... I CAN'T GET IN TO SEE NEIL GAIMAN, SO..."

"Oh, I didn't think you'd be able to, you've got to pay like $500 just to get near him..."

"YEAH... SO... THERE'S A MARIE ANTOINETTE FIGURE, IT'S GOT, LIKE, AN EJECTOR HEAD, WOULD YOU WANT THAT? THERE'S A DA VINCI, AND A..."

"Oh, yeah,

Comments

[live_in_morocco]

i went to the first comic con a couple years ago and it was so much fun. i haven't been able to make it back since...maybe next year.

[sneaky_minx]

Oh, yay for Sister Girl! I've seen some of Seth's graphic novel and it looked quite cool. I always meant to get myself a copy to check it out. I know there was some talk about a possible movie or something based off of it. But anyway, it sounds like she's having a great time. Although, I hope she's not enjoying rubbing it in your face too much.

[elfstones]

My class bought that Marie Antoinette figure for our History teaching when we left school. She loved it and kept pinging the head off all the way through the lesson!

[edda]

*squee*

[foresthouse]

Wait, your sister's boyfriend is a comics-buyer? What does that mean - does he have a store?

Man, your family just gets cooler all the time. Hee.

Those dolls are ridiculous. Heh.

[cleolinda]

Nah, he's the national buyer for Books-a-Million and he's younger than me. Basically, he's in charge of deciding which comics, graphic novels, mangas, etc., go on the stores' shelves.

[foresthouse]

Oh, that's so cool! We have a nice Books-a-Million in the Dupont Circle area. I like it pretty well.

In other things, while I was looking at some Orphan Works stuff, I came across this article:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/24/creative_commons_deception/

regarding Creative Commons. Don't you use their licensing policy on some of your stuff? I thought you should be aware.

[cleolinda]

Yeah... I've stopped using those. Now, whenever I used them, I was very careful to spell out whatever I was and was not permitting (make icons, do not repost). The only reason I used them, really, was because it gave an official veneer--it's like, people didn't believe me when I said the piece was copyrighted unless I "applied for" the little graphic at the bottom. There's a severe misunderstanding of the way copyright works for so many, many people. Particularly the way people seem to believe that putting something on the internet = public domain. I really believe people confuse "public access" with "public domain."

Hmm. Since copyright is flexible in the sense that you can specify exactly what you want to permit when you want to permit it, I wonder if I should put a graphic that says "ALL rights reserved," and then in text add, "Except that icons, links, and quotations are okay." I mean those might be fair use anyway, but people may not know that off the top of their heads.