Uploading Pictures From My Pictures

Kamizu wrote:
But as Jedi, do we not do the little bit extra to do what's right?

Yup.

I'm not too good an artist, not enough that Ive had anything stolen (Live in hope right!) But I am a very good writer, and I regularly come across my work uncredited on websites and even a newspaper once (with someone else taking credit). It particularly irks me when people feel they have a right to intellectual property simply because its out there and easy to take. And I'm totally with Steam on this one, not just for the reasons he has stated (which are all good reasons), but because when my work is used without my permission, it ends up being associated with groups or people I would never professionally work with, and when I'm not credited, it casts doubt on the authenticity of my own work (in the newspaper incident, they tried to claim I had stolen THEIR article)

That said, I have been caught by the meme thing before, thinking "oh, well its a meme and its everywhere and its perfect for what im trying to say, so ill just share it along side the article" At the time I didnt actually think far enough to consider the author of the image. And when I was contacted about it I didnt feel like I had done wrong, but regardless of my intentions, I did. An apology and the whole thing was forgotten.

what is meme thing?

In the context Ive used it, its catchy pictures that get shared very quickly around the internet

A meme (/ˈmiːm/ meem) is "an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture".

I remember reading a book when I was much younger (and honestly, too young to understand most of it) but I was intrigued by the thought the author put forward that the majority of the human culture was incapable of original thought and that we and our beliefs are simply a collection of memes.

And if you think about how we learn and develop (and how our brain is "programmed") certainly seems that way sometimes!

Mareeka wrote: what is meme thing?

If you read "God Wants You Dead" (in the Temple Library), there is a great explanation of memes. A good example would be the Jesus Fish. It is just a fish symbol, but a group of people associated a meaning with it and it spread from person to person until now it is widely associated with Christianity.

That same meme had legs and the word "Darwin" added to it to become a new idea shared from person to person and thus a new meme.

Memes are always evolving.