oh exciting!!

JRjonrosenberg.bsky.socialSep 28, 2024 4:59pm

"Super hero" is now free to use, folks. You can use it in whatever you want. Recipes. Greeting cards. Go fucking nuts. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

US Trademark Office cancels Marvel, DC's 'Super Hero' marks

A U.S. Trademark Office tribunal has canceled a set of "Super Hero" trademarks jointly owned by comic giants Marvel and DC at the request of a London-based comic book artist, according to a Thursday order.

The copyright question is actually very straightforward. To use copyright material for whatever purpose, you pay for that right. That's the law. If Meta prefers to walk away rather than pay, that is fine with me. I will wave them off with a cheery smile and write my books for those who value them.

DOdragonsofwales.bsky.socialSep 26, 2024 6:31am

They’re not even trying to hide it anymore. “Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says there are complex copyright questions around scraping data to train Al models, but he suggests the individual work of most creators isn't valuable enough for it to matter.”

NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! My next book, DRESS CODE AND OTHER STORIES, is out as an e-book on December 24th, just in time for the holidays! It's a collection of trans-themed short stories set in school and beyond. Links below! 👇

...as well as other online stores. books2read.com/dresscode/ It will also be available as a paperback from Amazon (a week earlier to account for shipping times, so you can have a nice gift for someone you care about!), but I can't set up preorders for those. Hope you enjoy it! ❤️

The book is now available for preorder on itch... zoe-storm.itch.io/dress-code

Dress Code and Other Stories by Zoe Storm

A trans-themed short story collection set in school and beyond.

NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! My next book, DRESS CODE AND OTHER STORIES, is out as an e-book on December 24th, just in time for the holidays! It's a collection of trans-themed short stories set in school and beyond. Links below! 👇

The best one in every trilogy is the fourth installment, right?

NEWLY OUT A guy gets released from prison and seeks out his old cellmate, only to find that many things have changed since they saw each other... not the least his cellmate's gender. Chapter six of this slow-burn trans romance is now available on my Patreon! :) www.patreon.com/posts/112439...

Newly Out, chapter six: Making Progress [3,9k words] | Zoe Storm

Get more from Zoe Storm on Patreon

NEWLY OUT A guy is released from prison and goes looking for his old cellmate, only to find out that many things have changed since they last saw each other... not the least his cellmate's gender. Check it out! Link below 👇

I wish that places like the UK and Canada would stop trying to shove profit models into healthcare; the US system is really bad, actually!

JCjonathancohn.bsky.socialSep 19, 2024 4:52am

Our private, profit-driven system means that we are paying more for less. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

US health system ranks last compared with peer nations, report finds

Despite Americans paying nearly double that of other nations, the US fares poorly in list of 10 countries