User:Mnation2/E-mail

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Niklas Jansson wrote:

I got a similar email recently, wrote a long draft but ended up not sending it for some reason.

I don't know what I said to some Wikipedia guy long ago, but I'm perfectly OK with Wikipedia, press, Bobby, funny videos, etc. using the FSM painting for whatever. However, the 'license' which I haphazardly formulated is not... fully compliant with Wikipedia's ... permissions thing.

A: I'm not the sole copyright owner. I used a photograph of the roof, and frankly I don't know where I got that. Sure, I've altered half of the image, but...

B: My license was noncommercial... ish, and perhaps intentionally vague. I just said I was OK if the press used it because I got a lot of press related inquires at the time.

Now, while I don't mind if Wikipedia uses the image, I suppose it can be problematic if the people who use images from Wikipedia assume that all images come with a certain license.

I generally choose a CC BY NC SH for my free stuff, but didn't in the case of the FSM image, perhaps because I wasn't familiar with CC and didn't care enough to properly formulate a license.

Someone actually wanted to buy the physical FSM painting, but was disappointed to hear that none existed. The FSM painting is digital (Photoshop) and not a subject to scarcity, but I'm sure it can be made to seem scarce, because consumers are not omniscient. Anyways, the only people who I'd like to discourage from using the image is those who take cheap or free (as in free beer) content and sell it at a higher price. I don't like these kind of people, and I have glorious visions of an post scarcity society where everyone floats around on little white hover platforms over wondrous lush gardens... perhaps wearing those helmets from Lego's Classic Space. That is, the old type with the jaw guard which is often seem broken. The 'new' helmets which came with Futuron are too bulbous and doesn't fit into my design vision of Utopia at all.

Regards Niklas Jansson

Nov 11/02/09 8:40 AM

Well, a correction: "That is, the old type with the jaw guard which is often seen broken."

I think about 30% of mine are broken. They later reinforced it slightly, before changing the design completely.

The Classic Space vintage figures which the Lego Group sell nowadays actually have the new helmet, and this I consider Atrocious.

-n