Episode 445 - Copyright and You
Sep 23, 2019
Copyright is a complicated thing and something that all creators should have a little bit of a working understanding off! Checkout my newspost lined bellow for more info! you need to know this stuff. I must apologise… I hadn't had much sleep and it was very late so I occasionally drift off into nonsense during the Quackcast.
Topics and Show Notes
This week Gunwallace has given us the theme to Dragons in Civilized Lands: Compelling, foreboding, panoramic, an epic landscape is slowly revealed bellow as you swoop on down through the grey clouds… the view spreads, wider and wider… cold mountains rear, vast stretches of icefields, patchwork fields, and a huge carpet of forest, past the occasional fort high on a hill, we narrow in on a clash between two brightly armoured hoards. Bright crimson flecks the shiny armour, brightly coloured pendants wave in the wind. Horses snort, men shout and scream… all fades to black.
Topics and shownotes
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Featured comic:
Stunklock - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2019/sep/17/featured-comic-stunklock/
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Dragons in Civilized Lands - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Dragons_in_Civilized_Lands/, by RobertRVeith, rated T.
LINKS
Ozoneocean's copyright newspost - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2019/sep/18/copyright-and-you/
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Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com
Banes - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Banes/
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