Because it’s a lot less straight forward than that and this guy is a crank with a history of intimidation against other Lakota people.
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1197956092
https://lastrealindians.com/news/2023/10/25/rl1qqmxm3cpcvoe8k9vsiv06gxibns
Also this legal fund is for a hearing that happened a year ago so don’t donate to it.
He got the recordings, he also wanted control of the copyright for those recordings. This would have prevented LLC from even continuing to publish their Lakota dictionary and other language materials. https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1197956092
I was going on a lot of different things but NPR did a good piece on it https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1197956092
Also here’s a telling of Ray Taken Alive making a scene at a conference presentation and trying to intimidate a Lakota woman and interrupt her presentation which I can only assume was the breaking point for LLC since it happened 2 months before they sent their cease and desist. https://lastrealindians.com/news/2023/10/25/rl1qqmxm3cpcvoe8k9vsiv06gxibns
There’s no lawsuit. LLC believed he was using his position at a school district as part of a defamation campaign against them so they issued a complaint and he had to defend his teaching license. This happened a year ago and he never turned off the fundraiser.
*he kept his teaching license but was found to have violated the code of professional ethics https://www.prweb.com/releases/bochetto-amp-lentz-p-c-professional-teachers-practices-and-standards-commission-finds-eugene-ray-taken-alive-jr-violated-code-of-professional-ethics-870961036.html
The guy who mocked a C&D asking him to stop provably lying about a nonprofit and then begging for money online is ridiculous.
Further evidence this guy sucks https://lastrealindians.com/news/2023/10/25/rl1qqmxm3cpcvoe8k9vsiv06gxibns
Not really no. A lot of work goes into observing how words are used and writing definitions that describe those uses. Someone has to actually write the definitions and their writings are copyrightable.
They don’t own the rights to describing a word, they do own how they described a word.
Granted the tribe should have gotten some free copies for their participation.
They did. The LLC distributed over a million dollar’s worth of material for free and also the elders that worked with the LLC were directly paid for their time.
You will never convince me there is any excuse for declaring somebody’s language my intellectual property is a justifiable thing on any level.
Nobody did that. Do you think Merriam Webster is copyrighting the English language by publishing a dictionary? Do you think they don’t hold the copyright to their dictionary?
“My grandmother was paid to recite material, it’s literally theft of my heritage that I, her grandchild, do not own the distribution rights to that specific recording”
If they were trying to copyright the stories or the language that would be one thing but it’s just their recordings and material they’ve produced. He probably shouldn’t have used his position at the school as part of his slander campaign if he didn’t want to risk losing it. If there was no professional misconduct then his licensure isn’t at much risk.
All he had to do to avoid consequences was not double down on saying “a non-profit paying someone to talk into a microphone is literally theft in a criminal sense”. If he wants to ignore a reasonable cease and desist so he can continue to lie about a nonprofit he should pay his own legal fees about it.
“No matter how it was collected, where it was collected, when it was collected, our language belongs to us. Our stories belong to us. Our songs belong to us,” Taken Alive,
Ok sure you can say that but when somebody receives payment in exchange for being recorded reciting a story signs over the rights to the recording you, the grandchild of the person who actually did the performance for the recording, do not own the rights to that recording.
If you actually read the SDDE complaint (link from the fundraiser) or the C&D they’re pretty damning. This guy sucks, don’t give him money.
*You should especially not give him money because this legal fund is for a hearing that happened a year ago and he never turned off the fundraiser lol
You can power a datacenter with solar panels and hydro, there is no green way to raise cattle.
Yeah that’s incredibly rude to waste that much of someone’s time because you’re too selfish to just pay attention to the road. ‘I want to look at my phone for 10 more seconds so I’m going to make a stranger lose 3 minutes of their day’ is absurdly selfish.
Except it’s not “1 second” you’re costing people minutes of their time when you prevent multiple additional cars from making the green because you’re too selfish to just pay attention to the light.
Aussie/Yinzer handshake https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Jeet Jet%3F
That’s what the majority of (sedans masquerading as) trucks are used for anyway.
There must have been a leak, I get almost a week out of mine in New Mexico.
Yeah but nobody retired a marginally profitable fuel refinery that became unprofitable during covid because they knew demand would return soon. The effect isn’t instantaneous, but all the infrastructure has operation and maintenance costs. With fewer overall consumers all the overhead has to go somewhere eventually.
“When you do see a police car in the bike lane and they walk out of a Tim Horton’s, that’s not a good look,” she said. “I personally think that those police officers should be held accountable because that’s not right. But again, it’s not my job to police the police.”
Your job title is “parking enforcement officer” who the fuck else is going to do it
It’s never too late to do reconstruction.
They’re still barely over half of US GHG emissions per capita. Fine they use more coal per capita, still much better than the US overall.