Should We Protect Our Creative Stuff?

Written by Susan James


The Questions are getting louder andrepparttar possible solutions are many and some solutions are filled with venom.

The Question being asked? How do we protect our creative rights from things such as piracy, and copyright infringements appearing in many creative forms? This question keeps popping up in regard to more simple things as writing books to more technological factors of entertainment andrepparttar 118944 like.

Consider this:

A. As long asrepparttar 118945 assumption is made, that we must *protect* ourselves from others, then we will continue to attract situations where we need to protect ourselves from others.

B. Basically, this is about about money and fear in general.

C. Thereforerepparttar 118946 assumption is then also made, that we can not make money if people steal our stuff. Therefore......it makes it a truth. The *truth* being now, we can not make money & more money, if people steal our stuff.

D. That therefore makesrepparttar 118947 assumption thatrepparttar 118948 Universe is limited in its delivery of things that makes us happy, and brings us success and wonderful lifestyles and livelihoods, while we are doing/being what we are passionate about and love.

E. The crux appears to be fromrepparttar 118949 creative side, projecting intellectual property vsrepparttar 118950 technological side and all of its innovations. These technological innovations seem to be whererepparttar 118951 *bad guys* show up, leaving attorneys to try and figure it out and pass more laws protecting *us* from one another.

F. As long as we continue withrepparttar 118952 perspective that we must protect ourselves from one another, then it will remainrepparttar 118953 circle of protection. We are assuming thatrepparttar 118954 *bad guys* are going to take our money and our ideas, which then equate to money. This therefore stifles our creativity andrepparttar 118955 line of limitation becomes a Wall, protecting us from more, creativity.

It's about *fear*. Fear of loss of something; fear of losing money, fear of *not getting proper credit for an idea* (sorry but I'm not running my life based onrepparttar 118956 so labeled *bad guys*)

G. As we as a humanity teach ourselves to honor one another, without judging behaviors....which also constrictsrepparttar 118957 flow of good stuff coming to us........and to...... honor that invisible space in front of our face and how it really works, and how we can mold it to design our lives..... THEN....we won't care anymore about protecting ourselves. We would have moved our *energy* higher, to where anything that dis-honors another person, won't show up. There will no longer berepparttar 118958 dense energy to hold it, it will fall away of its own weight.

Do You Pine For Your Own Tattoo Kit? Story of an Ebay Winner

Written by John Lundgren


Recently I went hunting for odds and ends that I could re- sell at a garage sale or on E-bay. Not being that knowledgeable on collectibles, I go by intuition and luck in making my choices. Most ofrepparttar items I buy for re-sale cost me less than $10.00. If you are familiar withrepparttar 118943 term "economies of scale," you can see why I will never get rich with this approach. Anyway, how does a tattoo kit enter this scenario?

As I pawed through one antique shop, an attractive wooden box with with a tiny brass latch caught my eye. Maybe it wasrepparttar 118944 words onrepparttar 118945 top ofrepparttar 118946 box that caught my attention. They stated, "Cow Tattoo Kit." It was priced $25.00. Now I knew that cows kept up withrepparttar 118947 latest trends and fashions, but a cow tattoo kit? I was mesmerized. I openedrepparttar 118948 box and there wasrepparttar 118949 neatest ear tattoo kit a cow ever saw. No, I didn't know that cows had their ears tattooed for identification purposes but years ago it wasrepparttar 118950 thing to do. The complete contents ofrepparttar 118951 box included a bottle of ink, two small containers filled with letters and numbers, and a pliers- like hand tool for tattooingrepparttar 118952 cows ear.

So here I was infatuated with a $25.00 dollar item which was considerably overrepparttar 118953 budget of a junk buyer like me. With trepidation, I made an offer of $20.00 forrepparttar 118954 kit which was promptly accepted, and I took my trophy home. As I drove byrepparttar 118955 area dairy farms on my way, I gazed atrepparttar 118956 barns and envisioned a cow tattoo expert at work. Infinite designs danced through my head: EAT MORE PORK was one I imagined a a cow might request. My kit, however, was not to be used in any tattoo parlor; it was destined for E-bay.

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