Interesting Links for 25-05-2020

[andrewducker]

National Trust branded "hard-nosed" and "harsh" by Scottish Government over plans to axe hundreds of jobs

(tags:nature charity jobs Scotland )

Some very simply estimated costs for a UBI in Scotland

(tags:scotland GuaranteedIncome )

A Feud in Wolf-Kink Erotica Raises a Deep Legal Question

(tags:copyright fetish wolves erotica fanfic )

The Ainu, Japan's Indigenous People

(tags:Japan history )

Science Fiction Timeline of Inventions

(tags:scifi history )

A collection of essays about why online communities end up the way they do

(tags:community internet )

What's Up With the Funny-Looking Moons in 'Onward'?

(tags:space moon Disney )

Tory whips apologise for urging MPs to support Dominic Cummings

(tags:conservatives pandemic )

Comments

[danieldwilliam]

Thinking about the wolf-kink erotica (and I don't thank you for making that happen) I think about books like Billy Bunter, Mallory Towers, Mike and Psmith and so on - where there is a common pool of tropes and characters.

[andrewducker]

My pleasure! ;-)

And yes, "similar tropes" seems to be to be fundamentally uncopyrightable, but characters definitely are.

[danieldwilliam]

There is also a pattern of people attempting to weaponise legal concepts far beyond the policy intention of the legal concept. Eventually someone digs their heels in, a case gets appealled to the supreme court in the jurisdiction and the bench takes the opportunity to lay-out the law definatively and slap illegitimate weaponisers back in to line.