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Friday, August 8, 2008

Playing with Blog Theme

So, I have been playing with my blog theme if you folks have been coming here, I think you would have noticed. I know a little html and have edited the code that I got from the Caz's site to add in a couple of things and take some out, but not a huge amount. I would actually like to play around with things a bit more, but some of my concerns with legal images and such.

I have found some places where I can get free pictures, so I can use that. As I like fantasy, it is fairly difficult to get photographs of fantasy creatures and most of the stock art is pretty sub-standard in my mind. So, the question is where to get fantasy or pagan themed art that would not be going against copyright violations if I used it. I actually do care to give credit to other artist where it is due, and wish to also show things that I post here legally as well (imagine that).

Is it strange to be so concerned about these things in this day and age? There are images online that people can download and do download on a regular basis. I do download some art and use if for solely for my own enjoyment (usually just to look at the pictures or as a background on my computer). To the best of my knowledge that is not using it in an illegal manner, as it is not using it publicly or for profit.

Is that line different for artwork then it is for music? I know many people who make music online and it completely free. If you look at many blogs and other forms of writing that people do online, many of them are for free as well. Although, I have heard that there are people that get paid for blogging. That must be rather nice.

I could deal with getting paid for blogging in some ways, I am just not sure if the general populace would find what I write about of any interest. I generally feel that most people don't like thinking much and since I spend a great deal of time ruminating about one thing or another in my posts it would not be of interest to them, but that might be me being cynical or egotistical or both.

I digressed again, didn't I? Where do people draw the line on what is "right" or "wrong" to download from the computer? I am saying if you put aside the laws, what is moral or not? Should Hollywood get paid as much as they do for the movies that they produce? Should popular musicians earn as much money as they do? For that matter should athletes be paid as they are?

Famous athletes often make an average of twenty million dollars a year or more. The highest paid actors can make that much per movie they are in. I have to wonder about people getting that kind of money when we are still people living on the streets and people who have no medical insurance. It makes me really question the whole idea of whether it is wrong to download a movie online when people are getting paid that much and I am living on disability myself.

Should people be denied art, music, movies and general enjoyment because they have a disability that makes them unable to work? It really makes one start to think about morals again. Then there is the whole question about buying a movie on DVD or music on a CD when you think of all of the packaging involved. So, where is the right or wrong?

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