To know enough about copyright to be concerned about it using a character IP in your works but to know so little about it as to think maybe SpongeBob has entered the public domain by now is a very very narrow subsection of people.
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1999, it's been around for longer than a lot of people's lives.
Don't say 1999 like that is ancient. Also, there's only like 30 people that were alive when most things finally entering the public domain came out. If anyone over the age of 7 thinks that Steamboat Willie and SpongeBob are remotely comparable in age, they have no sense at all.
To be pedantic, I can see an 8 year old thinking that.
It's still a silly question because who would even think SpongeBob would be close to public domain anyway. It's the lifetime of the creator plus 70 years. Were no where close to this ever happening and the only stuff we are even seeing now are crazy old.
“public domain” sounds naughty, too, though
The next time my best friend calls me a slut (fairly common occurrence), I'll be informing him that I am Public Domain.
OpenOrifice
You're just licensed under the GNU General Public License, it's not your fault you get passed around!
MIT so you're not transmitting anything.
Even "fair use" is on the borderline.
If not free use, why all the holes?
Nubile twink opens all his holes
Is SpongeBob freeuse? Link him the MeatCanyon video. You know the one.
Stop shaming the rest of us for not knowing your kinks.
Let us be vanilla as fuck in peace.
I didn't see much shaming going on, just confusion.
But my kink is sharing my kinks. Stop kink shaming.
I didn’t give consent to be a part of your kink
You’re the one calling yourself an “object” …
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
No, it’s a verb! Like I object!
Nobody who's not looking for a licking calls themselves vanilla imo. 👅🍦
Yet you knew that "freeuse" can refer to a kink. A vanilla person would have assumed they were talking about copyright.
He knows it now
What is misleading about this. Someone spell it out for me.
anyways, freeuse is kinda what it says on the tin. "Free" to "use" the person wherever, whenever. if they're relaxig in bed, while they are doing the dishes, outside gardening the plants,, while asleep. Usually has some overlap with the ignoring kink where they try to just go about their day and pretend they aren't being railed ruthlessly.
Free use is a kink. And "old enough" is like they are asking whether they can expand rule 34.
Mr Squarepants isn't real
Neither are the 500 year old dragons that look like human children. And yet
That would make weird for the 500 year old dragons that look like children. They're clearly violating the "half your age plus seven" rule, when they're having sex with 45 year old overweight and balding Japanese businessmen in all those hentai manga.
Right, and therefore those aren't and could never be free-use lol
And yet the dragons are free-use in every fanfiction I've ever written? And they love it, by the way. I write mostly Star Trek stuff.
Do you usually have to clarify that you're not talking about copyright law? lol
I think it's generally understood that Picard Breeds the Free Use Dragon Brood and similar works are protected under Fair Use.
Yeah, absolutely! Just like how if someone asked if an IP was free use in a public space you wouldn't assume they're referring to kink culture.
Because they're 500 year old dragons, or because they look like children?
Freeuse is a porn category
I mean it only sounds nasty if you’re a fucking degen. But with that many holes, it’s still a question worth asking.
Reminder that Steamboat Willie (1928) was scheduled to enter public domain in 1986 (or 1955 if not renewed)
AI slop. Look at the names
ugh fuck
this exchange is so funny. i wanted to repost it to my mastodon instance. but i'm not reposting fucking AI slop. we have rules against that
what the fuck was even the point of bothering to mangle this image in that way? how is feeding it through an LLM somehow EASIER than drawing black squares in MS paint? it didn't need censored in the first place! who the fuck cares!!!
fuck! i fucking hate this shit
The post is real. I think they Ai slop was just a weird censorship technique.
Now, whether or not the users on Reddit are bots getting freaky on main is a different question altogether...
Interesting
This mostly looks like the AI-powered remove/redact tool in preview on macos. It is actually quite good when used correctly, I have good experience blurring screens in photos with it.
Every fucking post someone has to chime in.
Is it misleading though? He didn't say what kind of movie it was going to be.
He's got enough holes for everyone