Aug 8, 2012
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Unattributed sharing doesn’t irritate me at all. I think part of the unspoken agreement you have when uploading a GIF anywhere on the Internet is that it’s no longer yours — it’s part of the great big community pool we all visit when wanting to express how we’re feeling in the way nature intended: on a loop.

The great Bobby Finger, in Anna Friedman’s nice Poynter piece, “What journalists need to know about animated GIFs.” (via markcoatney)

Once you make something (that is already maybe an infringement of copyright, given that you are likely making it from source material you did not personally create), it is no longer yours, and everyone in the world gets to enjoy (read: make money) on it without crediting you unless you have the wherewithal to note that it was yours, because that’s the way “nature intended”? There’s an “unspoken agreement” that this happens?

Why did artists sign paintings, you may ask yourself.

(via anniewerner)

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