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Friday, March 18, 2011
El is aghast! Here is he, patron saint of She Blogged By Night, but I only bring him out when I need to mention boring administrative things. I'm sorry, El. I'll try to stop using you for evil.It appears that I need to talk again about the pictures I use on SBBN. The issue recently came up on my blog as well as others, and blather is apparently necessary to straighten a few things out. Most of what I already said a year and a half ago still goes. The main thing I want to get across is this:
You can take pictures from SBBN at will. Even if it's scans of items I own, screencaps I "made," or exclusive photos that no one else has. Take away, pal.
However, I draw the line at plagiarism, pilfering the context and style of my writing, or deliberately posing as me or SBBN. The key word is deliberately, though. For example, the name "She Blogged By Night" is similar to several well-known noir films, so confusion and similarity is bound to happen, and that's fine. As far as I know, only spammers and one epic dingaling have plagiarized, but the dingaling incident was years ago. I just don't want anyone to say "You said it was okay to take pictures, so I copied your entire blog and passed it off as my own, as any reasonable person would have done."
About the pictures I post on SBBN:
* I don't intentionally take fan art, drawings, or original creations. The exception would be famous artwork, such as if I used the Hitchcock profile caricature from his television series. I occasionally use someone else's screen capture, but with credit and as placeholders until I get my own. For the most part, I don't want to use someone else's work. Mistakes happen, and I've been known to mistake good screencaps for publicity photos, so just let me know.
* In general, I grab any promotional material, movie stills, portraits, posters, etc. that I see and use them if I want, regardless of who online thinks they own said images. I own enough publicity material and photos of my own to know that none of us on the Internet created them or own the copyright to them. Besides, they have loose copyright standards that never even considered a medium like the Internet, and they probably fell into the public domain a long time ago, anyway. Pictures that come from specific accounts, fan forums, websites, etc. will be credited and linked. If I don't credit, it's only because I lost the credit at some point and have no idea where I got the picture.
That's it. Now that you've suffered through words, have some pictures. These are more pics left behind and not included in past posts:
Just Imagine (1930). And so we begin and we end with El Brendel. Look, just pretend like he's actually on this lantern slide, okay? Work with me here, people.Posted by Stacia at 3:55 AM 8 comments
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I do really need to see Astro-Zombies.
ASTRO ZOMBIES!
If only Astro-Zombies was as exciting as that lobby card, with its club walls covered in fake paneling and tasteful wall outlets.
I agree with El Brendel!
EVERYBODY agrees with El!
Just tonight my husband and I were watching "The Boob" (1926), and about halfway through it he said, "Man, where is El Brendel when you need him?" That film could have used a big helping of El.
The Boob could certainly have used something! That one really tested my devotion to Joan Crawford.
She was great, though. It's the only silent film of hers where I could really see the Joan of the future emerge. She's good in "The Unknown" but almost a different actress. And the coat and hat she has on at the end of "The Boob" was gorgeous!
Joan certainly looked good in 1920s clothes, no doubt about that.
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