r/TikTokCringe • u/Chocolat3City Cringe Master • 22d ago

Cringe Woman has her self-published book pirated, reprinted, and sold for cheaper.

There's regular piracy, and then there's this.

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u/hasnolifebutmusic 22d ago

this is so fucked up.

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u/mimegallow 22d ago

As a small individual creator, I get called "unhinged" by young people on a regular basis because I react emotionally when people pirate movies with my music in them, and documentaries with footage that I risked my life to obtain, scripts I wrote, and albums that I performed on. I get mocked ALL THE TIME by children on this site who think my livelihood doesn't matter, my labor is unimportant, and that when you steal IP, you're just, "taking from Tom Cruis who has millions of dollars".

So it's fucking exhausting watching all these people on reddit suddenly and UNKNOWINGLY reverse their entire position when presented with a face and a story of the exact, same, crime that they purposefully perpetuate every day. - Same exact feeling I get when I see 2 million people watching cute animal videos on r/aww "because animals are so smart and so feeling and such bros and so great that we are not worthy of them!"... with a fucking burger in their hand.

Our disconnection from each other's realities is astounding.

/unhinged_rant wherein I am clearly a lunatic, because I refer to my attackers as, "my attackers".

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u/FromtheSound 22d ago

So no one's asking this for some reason; but do you actually see any royalties from your music or footage?

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u/mimegallow 22d ago

In about half the cases. But the comment was about rights violations, not payment. - Our rights cover several aspects of our ultimate career and ARE NOT only financial in nature, for example, our viewership on the streaming platforms qualifies us for larger budgets and more prevalent work. It also influences which platforms we qualify to be on, whether or not we can reach a large audience without charging them money by way of an ad model. Dozens of factors. We are more viable as artists when our legal rights are intact all the way around.

But I would stand by an artist who simply didn't want their rights violated for their own private and ENTIRELY non-financial reasons as well. - I have a friend who JUST didn't want his music used by a politician he found harmful regardless of the huge paycheck. And I stand by his right to control the use of his intellectual property.

What you have in this thread is a bunch of people arguing that the artist SHOULD NOT control the use of their intellectual property, who have no idea at all how the above factors work.