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Harold Thomas is an artist who created something and is still fully alive. He has every dam right to do as he wishes with his own creation. He has always had

Harold Thomas is an artist who created something and is still fully alive. He has every dam right to do as he wishes with his own creation. He has always had copyright and everyone knows this. It's his creation, it came from him, it's used today exactly as he created, nothing derivative. If you don't want to respect this you can also shove your GPL or shove your copyright over books. You show respect what people create or you don't. To the question, to attack him I'd start searching here - https://trove.nla.gov.au/ https://trove.nla.gov.au/ See if you can find early articles saying how he did it, he might say he copied in part something or you might be able to twist what he says against him. Track possible artists or styles over picture search.

aryonoco 6y ago
Even if you accept that such a basic shape is copyrightable, it's laughable to have a national flag that is copyrighted and cannot be freely used. When the government declared it a national flag, they should have given him a few million dollars and bought the rights off him. They still can do this easily since they have eminent domain and it applies to IP as well.
- thomasfromcdnjs 6y ago
  Yeah, this is my position. I want the guy to profit as much as possible, but the flag is pretty much world renowned for Australian Aboriginals at this point. Having one individual choose how it is used on their own personal whims is a bit much.
- aaron695 6y ago
  > When the government declared it a national flag, they should have given him a few million dollars and bought the rights off him. But they didn't, so the government can get stuffed. I love the way you want the government to steal from an indigenous man here. Haven't they stolen enough yet? Harold Thomas owns it. It's been recognised he owns it. He can do as he wishes with it. If a bunch of people want to continue following something that's owned by someone else they can, but they follow the creators rules. Lets just steal Linux off Linus and co because we feel like it shall we. Remove his stupid GPL v2 because we want to.

aryonoco 6y ago

Even if you accept that such a basic shape is copyrightable, it's laughable to have a national flag that is copyrighted and cannot be freely used. When the government declared it a national flag, they should have given him a few million dollars and bought the rights off him. They still can do this easily since they have eminent domain and it applies to IP as well.

thomasfromcdnjs 6y ago
Yeah, this is my position. I want the guy to profit as much as possible, but the flag is pretty much world renowned for Australian Aboriginals at this point. Having one individual choose how it is used on their own personal whims is a bit much.
aaron695 6y ago
> When the government declared it a national flag, they should have given him a few million dollars and bought the rights off him. But they didn't, so the government can get stuffed. I love the way you want the government to steal from an indigenous man here. Haven't they stolen enough yet? Harold Thomas owns it. It's been recognised he owns it. He can do as he wishes with it. If a bunch of people want to continue following something that's owned by someone else they can, but they follow the creators rules. Lets just steal Linux off Linus and co because we feel like it shall we. Remove his stupid GPL v2 because we want to.