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Neither the devil you know nor the devil you don’t (pluralistic.net)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Our path to better working conditions lies through organizing and striking, not through helping our bosses sue other giant mulitnational corporations for the right to bleed us out.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Death of the Author applies here. One can't prevent how others interpret their work. The same way a neonazi org might use your work for propaganda, is how leftists repurpose Stonetoss comics for their own purposes. Or rather, it's not that you can't prevent it, it's that the means by which you would try to prevent it, would create a functional dystopia.

If someone acceptable were to ask me, I’d let them use my work without compensation.

Personally speaking, I hate permission culture.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

I remember having this sort of conversation 20 years ago, and it didn't convince me then.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't really agree with this. Artists can't (and shouldn't want to) entirely control interpretation, but they still have a responsibility. If your work is palatable to nazis or advertisers or whatever kind of parasite, you need to reflect on why and make it less so, or you're complicit in my book. I say this as an artist who's repeatedly moved on to new forms of expression as fashion catches up.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Me asserting copyright means I can express myself however I want, and Nazis can get their images from Unsplash or make it themselves. There's no risk of complicity on my part.