So... Next weekend I'll be in Columbus, Ohio, for Morphicon. It's a small furry convention.

It's also one of the few places I can get Tim Horton's in the US.

White Castle, Tim Horton's, and a furry con. whoa.

Yup yup, after a long long time I post in this dusty little thing. Anyhow, I got a new laptop.. a tiny little thing. Once I get a program on here for arts and such I might actually have some submissions.

I'll use this account for all PG-13 art, should I get back into it. My Furaffinity account (Makojin on there) will show furry art of all ratings though.

Anyone on my watchlist that posted art in the past year just about I couldn't even load this page on my old computer... but I can now.

Yeah, I'm disappointed too. Boo hoo. Just get over it. I'm looking forward to the game myself, but it's not the only thing occupying my time.

Everyone's saying, "NOOOO! How could they do this to meeee!! AAAAGH!!!" I know, I've been there, done that, but in the multitudes of game delays I've seen it's been delayed for a very good reason. This game is no different. I have faith in the game's development team. Only they now for sure why they made the delay, and quite frankly, it's just their business.

I'm sure you'd be even more pissed if the game came out with a killer glitch and forced a recall, and delayed six months for a re-release. It's best to take care of things now.

It's amazing how many people, including most artists, don't know the difference between copyright, trademark, and limitations.

A copyright is an artist or author's right to freely copy and distribute a work. A copyright does not need to be registered to be legal under international law.

What can be copyrighted? Any finished writing, picture, photograph, or audio recording.

What cannot be copyrighted? Logos, characters, faces, people, rough ideas, and the list goes on.

So in saying this, I recognize the right of any other artist to draw any of my characters with or without permission. There's a catch though.

You can trademark almost anything, including characters, thus making artwork of those characters without permission technically illegal. For this reason too I cannot legally draw a picture of Amy Rose in any manner. Sega shelled out money to various governments to keep her character as a trademark.

The reason why I'm ranting? Most artists that draw other people's original characters use the ©. If you want to credit the original artist that made that character, you can mention his or her name as the creator of that character, but it's not copyrighted.

So basically, unless Eric Schwartz and Max Black Rabbit shelled out the money to the US government's patent office (I think it's $70 per trademark), they don't even have to be credited for the charcters they made.

So in short, try go get it right, Makojin is not my copyright, though any story I right with her in it, is. If Rowyin rights a story with her in it, he oesn't even have to credit me, but he most likely will. That story is his intellectual property.

If I right a story about Amy Rose and Sonic, by a technicallity it wouldn't be legal because they are trademarked characters.

End of rant.

I thought i'd put this out there in case someone would be going as well. Next weekend I'll be in Denver, CO to attend Rocky Mountain Fur Con. I know of only a couple people that will be there as well.

My only problem is that my roommate there is leaving on Sunday, and I'm leaving on Tuesday. It's not situation critical, i just think i'm going to move to a cheap hotel for the extra couple of days. i want to spend that monday taking a look around town and/or visit with a friend there.

And i need someone to show me to an Orange Julias, i haven't had one in like... almost 7 years @,@