NatureMC

NatureMC, 12 hours ago

@MissingThePt or using the disenshittification Konami code: https://udm14.com/

NatureMC, 17 hours ago

@FayeDrake Depends perhaps in which country you live. In Europe, we have a lot of events for families, social activities where the adults meet and the children can have their own program, even in museums, librairies, or associations of all kinds. Exists also in rural regions, and if not, people invent something like public gardening.
Local groups are often organised via FB groups.

NatureMC, 19 hours ago

🧵 2/2 one of them sucks on the glue or cuts themselves with scissors? 😱 What if I don't understand their French? (Hearing foreign languages from children is quite different).
I learnt that a group is always guided by several of their teachers: they are responsable. You just do your animation. "And if you don't understand something, ask the children! They also don't understand everything."
Well, if the group finally approves the visit, I'll do it. So I can learn something new, too.

NatureMC, 19 hours ago

@RiversideBryan Here in France, this would be sold as a villa (in the former state with doors and windows).

NatureMC, 18 hours ago

@geschichtenundmeer Höre ich zum ersten Mal. Ich mach das immer, wenn ich wissen muss, ob jemand wirklich gelesen hat (der/die nachher schweigt), vor allem auch bei terminlich wichtigen Dingen. Oder wenn ich wie beim Einschreiben einen Beleg brauche, dass etwas gelesen wurde. Oder weil Tante Erna gern was verschusselt.
Ist ein Instrumentarium wie jedes andere auch, man sollte es halt nicht überstrapazieren.

NatureMC, 18 hours ago

@geschichtenundmeer Ich verstehe, wenn du es nicht magst. Ist vllt auch ein kulturelles Ding (hier ist es üblich bei wichtigen Dingen). Ich kenne auch Gründe im privaten Umfeld.

NatureMC, 18 hours ago

@skalabyrinth Auch Tante Erna (mein Satz war ironisch gemeint!) kann mal überaus eilige und wichtige Nachrichten privat bekommen, die man ihr früher per Einschreiben geschickt hätte. Das hat nichts mit Entmündigung zu tun.
Ich kann mich natürlich nachher auch ans Telefon hängen: "Erna, du beklagst dich immer lauthals im ganzen Dorf, keine Einladung bekommen zu haben, ist die denn angekommen?"
Wie gesagt, kommt auf den Fall an.

@geschichtenundmeer

NatureMC, 18 hours ago

@skalabyrinth Sorry, hätte ich besser kennzeichnen können.
Es ist dir unbenommen, etwas nicht zu mögen! Es gibt so viele unterschiedliche Herangehensweisen und Vorlieben.

NatureMC, 18 hours ago

@revk Yes, the claiming is not legal.

But even if art is "out of copyright", many photos/illustrations from archives are only free for non-commercial use. Often you have to pay a licence for commercial exploitation. It's not much but you finance the work of the archives and their scanning etc. This AI method is made for not paying them, I suppose.

@stephen

NatureMC, 14 hours ago

@revk Indeed, you are correct.
I may have expressed myself misleadingly: This fee has nothing to do with copyright but is a fee for services because you need high resolution.
Example: Artist X is out of copyright and I can do what I want with his art/images of it. But for the examples on Etsy in the article, I needed a very high resolution.
If this art would be real, I had to order the h'res version from the museum and pay a different fee for private or commercial use. If I have luck,
@stephen

NatureMC, 14 hours ago

@revk I find several archives with that image and have the choice to take the cheapest. But if there's only one museum having an h'res image, they can dictate the price.
These people on Etsy with AI bypass exactly that. And correct sellers would have to include this fee in their final price in order to earn enough.
Therefore, these people damage the archives and the correct sellers. (You need h'res for the print).

@stephen

NatureMC, 14 hours ago

@revk If the archive or museum catches you selling, they can take action against you. And sales are very public on the Internet. With the exception of the commons photos, you need the commercial licence even if it costs nothing.
Printing art commercially must be legal. (Imagine: commercial selling brings profit!)
You always find the rules under "licencing/commercial use". Example British museum: https://www.bmimages.com/ and https://www.britishmuseum.org/commercial/licensing

@stephen

NatureMC, 14 hours ago

@revk Did you read the article above?
They don't print real images of these artists, they print hallucinated images made by AI under the name of the artist.
This saves them having to buy licences for real images. And they may even be breaking other laws by claiming a name.
This is the difference between AI-scammers and legally working sellers of real art.

@stephen

NatureMC, 14 hours ago

@revk The process of gaining an h'res image itself is not illegal (as long as you don't hack the archive) but publishing it commercially = making profit) without a licence is.

Look, it's not illegal to collect knives which would work fine for murder. But at the moment you use one knive on a human being, you become a criminal.

@stephen

NatureMC, 14 hours ago

@revk Please read the article. It speaks about Etsy sellers. This IS commercial. @stephen

NatureMC, 14 hours ago

@revk I give up. 🙄 I don't know why you don't understand my posts. Fiddling around doesn't make something more legal.
My tip: If you want to go into business with copies of real images or merch of them that are not yours, get very good advice from a lawyer before. It's worth it.

@stephen

NatureMC, 14 hours ago

@revk I work for a museum, I'm artist and I often published art (legally). I don't talk crap.
Again: I talk about commercial licences (not copyright) of real images, - versus AI-hallucinated scam.
But if you are a specialist lawyer for intellectual property law, you certainly know all this better than I do. 😉
I'm out here.
@stephen

NatureMC, 14 hours ago

@revk Just leave me in peace! 🙄 @stephen

NatureMC, 13 hours ago

@iangriffin Impressive!

NatureMC, 19 hours ago

@lifewithtrees That's why the Insect Union says: "Humans are not the bee's knees after all." 🤭

NatureMC, 13 hours ago

@RadicalAnthro Thank you for the link - that's so fascinating!
I had to think about the global swap culture of embroidered patches for #Visiblemending via social media ... a very ancient behaviour!

NatureMC, 13 hours ago

@peterhellinger Das müffelt sehr nach AI.