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[David]

Chickens finally coming home to roost for the Cuomos:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/ ... hris-cuomo

[Dave The Man]

https://twitter.com/ACurrentAffair9/sta ... 5941440512

So they want to tell People Drugs are Okay to use

[David]

I can just imagine the nuanced and sensitive manner in which ACA dealt with this topic.

[Pi]

Sh!t......., how did they figure it out ? thought we got away with it...

https://www.sen.com.au/news/2021/12/13/ ... says-marc/

[stui magpie]

Sh!t......., how did they figure it out ? thought we got away with it...

https://www.sen.com.au/news/2021/12/13/ ... says-marc/

Bugger, they sprung us.

[pietillidie]

This actually makes considerable sense, though it needs to go further to implicate the similarly destructive narcissists who incite this group for self-serving ends including Trump, like-minded Republicans and the conservative media who play them like a violin. The lack of conscientiousness and discipline, and penchant for chaos has always been obvious. Now to expose the abusers who manipulate and profit off their psychiatric vulnerabilities.

In newly published research, we found that it’s not conservatives in general who tend to promote false information, but rather a smaller subset of them who also share two psychological traits: low levels of conscientiousness and an appetite for chaos.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/ ... ews-526973

[stui magpie]

Pretty happy with this, good outcome IMO

The Aboriginal flag will be transferred to public hands for the first time, freeing its use for Indigenous community groups and sporting codes after the Australian government reached a historic deal with its creator to permanently acquire copyright more than 50 years after it was first flown.

The $20 million taxpayer-funded settlement will end a long-running legal controversy surrounding its use by allowing the ensign to be painted on sports grounds, used on apparel such as sports jerseys and shirts, on websites, in paintings and other artworks, digitally and in any other medium without having to ask for permission or pay a fee.

https://www.theage.com.au/politics/fede ... 59qpb.html

[David]

Can’t figure out whether this guy is a shameless grifter or just a very shrewd businessman:

https://www.smh.com.au/national/i-creat ... 59qus.html

Before assigning copyright, I created the authentic digital representation of the flag, which I have minted as a non-fungible token (NFT) on December 21, 2021, to commemorate the 50th year of the flag, acknowledging the potential of NFTs in the digital art world. I will hold the NFT on an ongoing basis, on behalf of Indigenous communities.

It is good news. But this is a great case in point of what a disaster copyright law has become. There have to be better ways for artists to be compensated for their work than allowing it to become an expensive, bureaucratic labyrinth that winds up requiring a $20 million government buyout.

[stui magpie]

I'd say "shameless grifter" is harsh.

He created the flag and owned the copyright on it. There was no issues until he licenced it to a company who then started to pursue people and organisations who used the flag without paying for it. eg, the AFL or NRL painting it on the playing field or putting it on playing strips for Indigenous recognition purposes.

As an artist I think he's entitled to profit from his work and it wasn't by plan or design that something he created became the symbolic flag of a people.

I think this is the best outcome, the Australian Government owns the copyright, he receives compensation and people are free to use it (respectfully) without payment.

[David]

[stui magpie]

I get where you're coming from, I'm not sure when he got copyright on the flag but he only licensed it out a few years ago so I don't begrudge a bloke who's lived in Humpty Doo trying to make a living as an artist for 40 years the chance to make a bit of coin in his twighlight years.

I mean, FFS Humpty Doo isn't exactly Toorak.

Rather than worry about IP, explain NFT's to me. I just don't get the concept.

[pietillidie]

[stui magpie]

I'm not clicking on that link. Do they consider Capital gains tax?

[David]

[pietillidie]

I'm not clicking on that link. Do they consider Capital gains tax?

She would be, as she is one of their chief policy writers, love or hate her. Her initial point was how the Help-to-Buy scheme (first home buyer equivalent) simply drove up house prices, thus failing as a policy.

Other people's view aside, you've got this ridiculously low-risk asset class soaring in value being pumped even higher at every other turn. In terms of opportunity cost, this means less government revenue (the difference between CGT and income tax, which is substantial), poorer people living in freezing hovels, and vast capital being parked in inflated, unproductive assets. It's a complete social and economic nonsense. If an asset is roughly rational and non-critical, fine. But that's not what we're dealing with here.