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To People Who Think It’s Okay to Swipe My Work Because You “Found” it on the Internet: Don’t do it! I will vigorously defend my copyright.
If there’s some part of this you don’t understand, check out plagiarism.org, AP guidelines for credit and attribution, and this clever video about copyright and fair use from NYU Polytech.
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Hi- thanks for the link to that great video. As an illustrator, artist and creator of things that I wouldn’t want copied without permission- good to see that you are raising consciousness about intellectual and creative properties. As a Coney Island fanatic myself…
BIG MARK ACTION PARK IS A FRAUD!!! PLEASE DONT SUPPORT HIM!!
HE HAS NO DEAL WITH THOR EQUITIES…he is a LIAR AND A CHEAT
if it’s a no-go, won’t be the first time something promising doesn’t happen on Thor’s lots https://amusingthezillion.com/2010/05/13/scoop-deal-to-rent-thors-coney-island-lots-a-no-go-for-fair-producer/
Was a Violently Racist Carnival Game Once Popular in America?
In the not-so-distant past, white carnival goers threw eggs or balls at African Americans in a game popularly known as “Hit the N—– Baby.” (also known as “The Black Dodger”or “Hit the Coon” In 1887, the New York Sun recounted a bad day at the Westchester County Fair by noting that “Everything seemed to go wrong. The African Dodger was disabled. A very hard ball had explored a very soft region of his cranium and he was laid up for repairs.” The Sun also reported, with no apparent concern for the injured man, that “another negro was procured to do the African Dodger’s act.”