.... Well THIS is bullshit! Hey all you kangaroo lovers out there, you can't have one for your persona because it would violate the Aborigones copyrights! And furry artists can't draw them, either! And while we're at it, you can't film them without permission! Disney better watch out, 'cause Kanga belongs to the Aborigones! And hey, you can't draw or represent pandas without China's permission! Bye-bye, Shanda! Or Lemurs without Madagascar's permission!
/HEAVY SARCASM
... and that's not even going into the logic of using purely Western concepts of intellectual ownership and copyright to claim something that would only hold water according to the ancient, non-Western Aborigone traditions (i.e. the concept of the eternal, unchanging dreamtime). Are you being Aborigone, or Western??? Anyone know the Aboriginal concepts of intellectual property, assuming there are/were any?
...Besides, you CAN'T claim copyright to something that is in prior existence. I can't claim copyright to oxygen, because it was there before me! Dreamtime nonwithstanding, kangaroos were in Australia before Aborigones. For one thing, we're placental mammals, which only evolved in the world at large AFTER Australia split off. I don't care how long Aborigones have been there, you can't beat THAT.
.... Well THIS is bullshit! Hey all you kangaroo lovers out there, you can't have one for your persona because it would violate the Aborigones copyrights! And furry artists can't draw them, either! And while we're at it, you can't film them without permission! Disney better watch out, 'cause Kanga belongs to the Aborigones! And hey, you can't draw or represent pandas without China's permission! Bye-bye, Shanda! Or Lemurs without Madagascar's permission!
/HEAVY SARCASM
... and that's not even going into the logic of using purely Western concepts of intellectual ownership and copyright to claim something that would only hold water according to the ancient, non-Western Aborigone traditions (i.e. the concept of the eternal, unchanging dreamtime). Are you being Aborigone, or Western??? Anyone know the Aboriginal concepts of intellectual property, assuming there are/were any?
...Besides, you CAN'T claim copyright to something that is in prior existence. I can't claim copyright to oxygen, because it was there before me! Dreamtime nonwithstanding, kangaroos were in Australia before Aborigones. For one thing, we're placental mammals, which only evolved in the world at large AFTER Australia split off. I don't care how long Aborigones have been there, you can't beat THAT.