Creator rights versus User rights and copyright

I am seeing a lot of these fall arrangements on my walks these days:

Around the house, I have replaced my summer (artificial) flower decorations with fall flower decorations. I don't do anything elaborate, just a few pieces.

This is an interesting article concerning fair use with copyright laws.  This lady in California won her case after 8 years.  She had posted a video of her dancing baby with 29 seconds of music by Prince.  She was asked to take the video down as she was violating copyright.  It seems user rights in Canada are well protected compared to the United States.  Creator rights and user rights have to be balanced in Canada.

The Great Escape

I read this article about a survivor of the mass breakout (known as The Great Escape) from a German POW camp during World War II.  Paul Royle died recently at age 101. It was interesting that Royle thought that the 1963 movie 'The Great Escape' starring Steve McQueen glamorized the 'reality of darkness cold and terror'. He said there were no motorbikes or Americans there. Only 3 escaped, 50 were shot dead, 23 (including Royle) were sent back to POW camps but survived the war. He intensely disliked the movie for the reasons described.

I am going to try to use more photos and quotes from the public domain from now on.  Of course, my own photos are fine too.  Even though I come across funny and cute things I want to share from the internet we have to be mindful of copyright restrictions, the tendency is to forget.

Husband M and I met up with an old friend of mine and her husband yesterday evening, we had not seen them in awhile.  The husband has to have knee replacement surgery but he has to wait until March next year.  He said the government only allows doctors to perform one surgery per week instead of one per day.  It must be cost cutting measures.  My girlfriend was doing great, having started a regular exercise yoga program.  She says it got rid of all her aches and pains.

Creative Tuesdays - Skyscrapers

I decided to remove my original entry as I'm concerned about violating copyright. I saw an image of a tower in downtown Toronto and liked the perspective of it, as did the earlier commenters. However I've decided it looks too similar to the photo and noticed it has copyright. Sorries.

I've snuck in this photo of another take on the theme. Hope you like it, the copyright on this one is mine!  It's acrylic on cardstock (11" x 8.5").

Linking to Creative Tuesdays.

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