Welcome to
NyymoNet, where I gather original works from throught my life (and yours, if you upload them to the Guestbook) and dedicate them to the public domain. I'm not against your use of copyright
1, it just doesn't fit my mindset. I spent ages ~10-30 creating various projects in any myriad form and subject matter, but I rarely felt confident in sharing them with anyone. I keenly remember viewing the work of fine artists (no sarcasm intended) in my 5th grade class, the sketches of Ford Mustangs and AT-AT Walkers, and thinking, "Well, I don't want to tread upon their ground." Even at that age, I knew that making a living as an artist was hard, and I knew vaguely that the profession was a calling. I did not feel called, so I never called my works "art".
Throughout my 20s, I stretched beyond my B.A. in English Literature to begin fervently eating up the physical sciences, mainly via Wikipedia, YouTube, and Sci-Hub. Here again, I wanted to contribute to common knowledge
2, but without a degree in chemistry, etc., I was not confident I could be taken seriously.
3 However, for someone of my disposition, the Creative Commons 0 license solves both of the above problems.
I've never found any way to fit in post-industrial conceptions of profession
4, but the idea of a
returvn to pre-copyright mindset became the shining light I needed to feel like my creations were worth sharing. There is such a joy in taking this stance, of declaring that every original thought, word, or creation you have is the property of everyone. The more you give, the more it seems you have. Or as the old man on the ox said, "少则得".
On this site you will find
only media containing sufficient originality to earn protection, which have then been stripped of it. This is what CC0 was made for--releasing something you hold. On
NyymoNet's sibling site,
Lykraia, we explore the flipside of this phenomenon--that which cannot be copyrighted due to the passage of time, the failure to meet the threshold of originality, or the author being non-human.
Lykraia is not simply a collection of my favourite Jane Austen audiobooks (because
some people have already done a very good job at that!), it is a home for newly collected or discovered un-copyrightable material. This consists largely of photos birds have taken of themselves (assuming I can figure out how to build the rig), old, unpublished media I find at garage sales / on eBay, and scientific data I have gathered. Like this site, there is a Guestbook where I welcome reader submissions, so if you have any new typefaces, recipes, etc., please feel free to add them there.
Thank you so much for visiting, and for reading. If you'd like to know more about me, see the About section. And for the love of god, if you like my text-adventure idea and know how to code better than me (look at this website),
get in touch!
-- Nyymo
12 September 2024
Denver, CO, USA
[1] Though I highly recommend you consider stripping the copyright from everything you've made before you die! For what it's worth, I hold anyone who does this, my style of committing everything immediately to public domain, and all in between to be "Very Good!" Those who do not nix their copyrights by time of death but also do not suppress piracy are "Normal", in my moral calculus, and finally, those who defend their intellectual property (looking at you, Mr. Metallica) are a) lame as fuck, b) far from the light of the lord, and c) deserving of all shame and ridicule.
[2] Or, you know, produce anything I was proud of.
[3] Artists, on the whole, are truly a holy lot, but let's be honest, scientists are commonly elitists and gatekeepers. I mean, just look at Dr. Matt O'Dowd, or any given chemistry.stackexchanger's attitude on self-taught "hard" science. They seem to have the opinion that we are all wannabe Nile Reds, and will undoubtedly blow ourselves up if we continue along this path, because we self-studied Petrucci's General Chemistry on a $30 budget, rather than sitting through 210-person lectures given in an unintelligible Russian accent, and then self-studying on a Saturday at 6PM over bánh mìs anyway.
[4] Although there's certainly an entire thesis paper to be written on this subject, I would hazard a guess that "artist" was a very different--and much less defined--thing >250 years ago, in much the same way that "homosexual" was.