{"id":7723,"date":"2018-12-30T12:36:49","date_gmt":"2018-12-30T17:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=7723"},"modified":"2018-12-30T12:36:49","modified_gmt":"2018-12-30T17:36:49","slug":"how-you-know-the-copyright-cartel-is-out-of-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=7723","title":{"rendered":"How You Know the Copyright Cartel Is Out of Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Remember, kids, when you get a tattoo, its copyright belongs to the tattoo artist, not you. So when you become famous, there&#8217;ll be IP problems. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hmBmr8kepn\">https:\/\/t.co\/hmBmr8kepn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kontra (@counternotions) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/counternotions\/status\/1079033046240702465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 29, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I get that artists don\u2019t want others ripping off their work but saying that a cartoon representation of a real person in a video game is a violation because the cartoon character shows (a cartoon representation) of the real person\u2019s tattoos strikes me as ridiculous. Not that common sense has much to do with the practice of IP law these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember, kids, when you get a tattoo, its copyright belongs to the tattoo artist, not you. So when you become famous, there&#8217;ll be IP problems. https:\/\/t.co\/hmBmr8kepn \u2014 Kontra (@counternotions) December 29, 2018 I get that artists don\u2019t want others ripping &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=7723\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-7723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-copyright"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7724,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7723\/revisions\/7724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}