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Post by αℓℓı on Jun 16, 2008 1:15:44 GMT -5
1. General 411 on Copyright
Everyone knows, or very well should know, what copyright is, and what copyright infringement is. If you don't, you better go look it up, because I'm not going to explain it to you.
Simply put, we will not tolerate art theft. If you try to steal art, especially from us, you'll be banned, as well as reported on every site that you may have posted the image on, and we will do everything in our power to make you thoroughly regret stealing our artwork or our members' artwork.
"It's just an image, though! If they're scared of getting it stolen, they shouldn't post it on the internet!" you may mutter in annoyance as you read through what I have typed thus far.
Well, think of it this way. If you drew something really nice, wouldn't you want people to appreciate it? And praise you for it? If you drew something absolutely amazing that people marvel at, wouldn't you want some people to compliment you? That's why people post their artwork online; the praise and compliment drives what little self-appreciation for their own artwork that most artists generally have, as 70%+ of artists don't even like their own work. Simple put: we don't tolerate art theft. Need I rant more about this?
Can you tell I'm an artist? I bet you couldn't.
2. This site's graphics.
Unless we have someone else do a layout for us, all graphics on this site were done by me, that's Alli. If someone else makes us a layout, we will be crediting them in the global header. Do not steal my graphics, nor ANYONE ELSE'S that happen upon this site.
Images used in graphics are copyright to their original owners. If copyright was on the image, it will not be taken out or will be added to the image if it cannot be fit in the image itself. If this is not possible, either, credit will still be given as best as possible in the Past Layouts thread.
By the way, don't steal our layout ideas or colors, either. That's theft, too.
PLEASE NOTE THAT CURRENTLY, however, that the following two images were from an Invisionfree skin posted on the Invisionfree skin forum for others to use, although they were flipped either horizontally, vertically, or both, and then saved on my own server.
Images: ImageOne|ImageTwo
-This notice will be moved to the Past Layouts thread when said thread is created.
3. Character Images
Now this is a very important subject, because almost everyone has a reference for their character, whether they drew it or not. If you drew it, you do not need to credit yourself anywhere, but you probably should so you can get people to praise you left and right for your madcrazy1337 art skills.
If you did not draw your character's reference, however, you must credit the original artist. If you have the image saved on your computer or browser and cannot find the original artist, you must state, somewhere easily visible on your profile: "Credit to unknown artist for reference. If you know who the artist is, please tell me so I can credit them." If you find the original artist, you must change your credit.
This is veryveryvery important. We will NOT accept profiles that do not credit the artist. And anyone that uses a reference and claims to own the artwork, but that we have proof that they don't, will be banned on the spot.
Can you tell yet that I'm very bitchy about art theft? I bet you couldn't.
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