{"id":461,"date":"2007-02-03T00:08:09","date_gmt":"2007-02-03T07:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/main\/2007\/02\/the-trouble-with-popular-designs\/"},"modified":"2013-02-23T05:37:14","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T05:37:14","slug":"the-trouble-with-popular-designs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/2007\/02\/03\/the-trouble-with-popular-designs\/","title":{"rendered":"The trouble with popular designs&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;is that if you don&#8217;t end up getting copied, you end up getting C&amp;Ded.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what happened to <a HREF=\"http:\/\/wastedinc.com\">Zombie: eat flesh.<\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nNot the copying thing, although there used to be several versions of it in other stores.  The C&amp;D thing.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s pretty damned special, I think.  Sad, because it was selling, and now it&#8217;s gone, but really very special.  Because someone <em>noticed<\/em>, was terribly upset, and flexed their mighty, mighty American Legal Muscle to make it stop.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;which is one of the reasons why I don&#8217;t have more stuff over there on Wasted [the others mostly have to do with Gremlin being way too busy with some Civ game, and anything I do being completely not worth the time].  I, personally, don&#8217;t want to go through the ordeal of having someone accuse me of stealing from or infringing upon someone else with whatever it is I made.  Even if it is a framed print of some crappy picture I took.  I keep thinking someone&#8217;s going to launch the great-and-mighty C&amp;D nuke at me, and be all &#8216;HA HA! THAT&#8217;S MINE!  YOU STOLE IT!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>And then I&#8217;ll have to prove that I didn&#8217;t.  Because I&#8217;m, what, guilty until proven innocent?  I don&#8217;t know.  I don&#8217;t really get it.  I didn&#8217;t do something, and I have to show that I didn&#8217;t do it because someone claimed I did.  It&#8217;s a lot like <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/main\/2006\/01\/i-am-not-a-criminal\/\">that thing that happened at Safeway<\/a>, and that bugs me.  A lot.<\/p>\n<p>Oh well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;is that if you don&#8217;t end up getting copied, you end up getting C&amp;Ded. That&#8217;s what happened to Zombie: eat flesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bib"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3bMfN-7r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1926,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions\/1926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}