Everything I draw ends up wearing a bow-tie

thefloatingstone asked: Sorry Mod. That post you just reblogged IS for a pretty shitty thing... but that post in particular is a LOT of fear mongering and largely false. Fanart does not fall under copyright law. I recommend checking its tags as there have been lawyer tumblr posts explaining the truth of the matter. It sucks, but is not as extremist as that post leads to believe.

yes and no- the problem is that this impending issue isn’t getting enough attention because the guy who originally posted that video (you know that one with the orange haired dude) was an anti EU guy with some severely right-wing views. Which effectively killed everyone’s interest, which sucks because regardless of how he put it this is still a big thing that needs addressing. Like Net Neutrality, this is an issue that has global implications. I’m definitely not condoning fear mongering, and I do wish there was a post that was less panic inducing, but the fact is almost nobody is talking about this. I didn’t even know about it until two weeks ago and I live in Europe! I took this long to reblog a post about it because I wanted to find out more and that post actually has links that hold merit. It’s not so much that all things fandom related will definitely be banned, it’s the fact that this law is so vaguely phrased that it could be used to do that, and will likely be enacted by automatic filters (like the ones youtube has been using and people have been having trouble with for ages).

So yeah, it’s bad! There are over-reactions all over the place, but that doesn’t remove the fact that this is not? Good? I don’t like not saying things about things that are not good. Please help us do something about it.