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Published: 2006-06-11 05:03:49 +0000 UTC; Views: 51352; Favourites: 3565; Downloads: 11900
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READ ME! If you do not support the complete message of this stamp then, I urge you, PLEASE DO NOT add this stamp to your favourites!Get permission before using any creative work that is not your own. Crediting or disclaiming IS NOT permission.
What's this About?
You don't feel bad using someone else's pretty photo or kawaii anime artwork for your graphic design? Because it's copying, not stealing? Right? But you're not just making a copy of the file! You're leeching off someone else's talent without them knowing!
Artists have the same intellectual property rights online as they do in real life. And just because it's easy to get away with it on the internet, doesn't mean it's ok to do!
IT FEELS GOOD to know people want to use your artwork for a web/graphic design. But it's annoying to have it done without your awareness.
Ask permission! Communicate! Make an artist happy knowing you like their work! Make yourself happy knowing the artist is ok with you've done with their work!
MISCONCEPTIONS
Purchasing a book, game, music or DVD, does not grant you the right to copy its content online. These products come with a license limiting what you can do with them. Often the author states inside the cover they do not want you re-using their work! Crediting or disclaiming does not equal permission. It doesn't clear you of doing anything wrong. "Credit to whoever" or "this isn't mine, I found it on the internet", is not the correct source to credit. Also,Β it doesn't help anyone - you might as well say nothing. "Credit goes to Google" or "Credit goes to -xyz- scans gallery", is not the correct source to credit. You are not allowed to put "Copyright (c) Me" on something you upload to the internet if it's mostly made from other people's work.Getting Permission is Not Difficult
If you can take an hour to create a wallpaper or something, surely you can spend 5 minutes sending an email or letter asking permission.
Thank You All!
I wish to thank all the people who do the right thing.
And hope that you set a good example for everyone else.Subscribers: You have permission to display this stamp in your journal! Everyone else: Feel free to +fav and show this stamp anywhere!
Further Reading
As you can see, copyright and artist rights are important to a lot of people:
10 Big Myths about copyright explained
Copyright: Fair Use and the Most Common Misconceptions of Copyright Law
Copyright Violations
Internet Law (BitLaw)
Copyrights and Wrongs for Typography
Electronic Piracy
RIGHTS
What is Copyright Protection?
Copyright - Wikipedia
Online Fanarts Protection - Not being able to communicate with artists is no excuse to steal!
ChillingEffects.org
deviantART's Submission Policies!
FAQ #8: What are violations of the deviantART copyright policy?
FAQ #157: Can I use things created by other people in my submissions?
FAQ #306: Does "Crediting" let me use whatever I want?
FAQ #257: What sort of permission do I need to use someone else's work?
FAQ #572: What does deviantART consider "Fan Art" to be?
FAQ #578: What does deviantART consider to be a proper desktop screenshot?
FAQ #614: What can I use for music tracks and sound effects in my animation or film?
Feel free to show this stamp in your journal (if you're a subscriber) or anywhere. Revised on 2/October/2014.
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Scared to ask, and I'm not a copyright supporter because people don't realize is that people might have the same idea, that why you shouldn't copyight. Β
Sorry if I offended you with bold letters but it's a serious problem.
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If I REALLY want to do my own version of a picture, I ask.
I recently did a redraw of one of my sister's pictures because I told her I could draw it better than she did. It was a challenge. To even it out, my sister agreed to (eventually) redraw a a deviation of mine she chooses.
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i always ask the artist before hand and i dont draw the pic until i get an awnser i totaly agree with thisΒ
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Yeah putting this in my descriptions. Gonan be using this.
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I will definitely be putting this on my description
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I'd like to use this, I hope, you won't mind.
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This is going in the description of every deviation from now on.
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Thank you very much for this resource! Β I'll surely be putting it on my submissions when I put more up.
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Go to thumb, and embed the thumb in your page. c:
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oh thank you
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You're welcome~
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Thank you for making this. I am sharing it as I am sick of unauthorised "derivative works" and other rights infringements. So this means alot.
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It was something that used to enrage me, but sometimes I have to give people the benefit of the doubt. No, often someone doesn't mean to be hurtful by saying, "copyright someone not me".
I don't understand how people can miss the fact that the kawaii picture they found on Google was made by an artist who put years of skill and effort into the piece. I don't understand it, but it happens anyway. It's really no use to yell at these people and call them names because they don't know any better. However, if it's laziness, then that's absolutely no excuse.
The point is, I would feel gutted if I displayed some of my own beautiful artwork on the internet, and it was given the caption, "image copyright to Google".
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Thank you for making this!~ <3 I'm using it~
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Well I guess it was mainly Japanese companies it is being done with so they don't usually worry...that latest one even ripped off Disney (no credit given for wreck it ralph) though lol the thieves are doomed I hope...
Even if the company doesn't care stuff like this makes me not want to do it at all...Guess I'll be a big unpopular but meh better that and a real artist than a sorta sell out and encouraging this sort of thing because that will make big companies try to bring up things similar to SOPA again..Don't get why these guys don't realize this. =/
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Asian countries are fairly loose about intellectual property rights. That's how artists can get away with selling doujinshi (fan comics) for profit. It's not that they don't care, it's just that the policy seems alien to them. At least they use their own original artwork and acknowledge the original authors.
What annoys me is people who sell t-shirts/buttons/etc on ebay or wherever using someone else's art. It's just that they've put no effort at all into the creative work. They just find an image on Google and *bam* profit! "Thank you Google!" They say.
Also, I'm fine with someone tracing/copying/etc as a learning tool. It's when they wave it around saying, "Look what I made!" (as if it's a completely new thing) and not acknowledging the original creator, that's crossing a line. It's not really breaking a law, but it's treating the original creator as if they don't exist.
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Ok...Thanks for letting me know what it means. Yeah I can see saying look at my original masterpiece when it was yours if you found it being so annoying especially when others assume it was theirs. Had that problem in spore long ago >< at least they didn't make money though. I don't like fan art sales because it confuses new people and seems to attract other sorts of art thieves in places besides here *glares at blatant facebook game* lol maybe I'll play it to figure out how that is happening. -.- Disney even on there geez. I think the credit must be in game somewhere or they would have already been taken down.
If I find these other things ever happening I will unwatch too.
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i hate it when people on spore steal my things >:I
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Spore is a bit of a haven for copy-cats. I don't know if it's possible to fully own something you create on Spore.
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I guess :I
Now i can't log into my account and so i can't even check whether my creations were stolen or not >:I
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More reasons why I don't play Spore!Β Β
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The selling trademarked and copyrighted content part is what I really disagree with frankly I'd be worried about being taken to court myself for selling or buying this stuff but I've seen people do this here that are even popular o.o; Ugh that bothers me but eh it's their life and their risk to take but don't think it's a good idea....Even a game company did this lately with big companies and small artists grrr.
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Thanks for this. I just wouldn't feel morally right taking someone's picture and tracing and coloring over it and then posting it like my own saying this is so and so's but hope it's ok...Even a big company so I hope people don't ask to buy fanart type stuff from me...Unless the artists give permission somehow like in the reference section and even then I usually just practiced without posting because I like to get a feel for how to draw something then try my own take on it from another angle or something to see if I've gotten better...Think that's a better way to do things and it just looks better but can see how this is very good practice when beginning art or trying something you don't draw at all normally to draw from photos...But I don't really consider the result to be art more like practice/getting a feel for it if that makes sense. I'm going to use this on my Id.
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Nice deviation, I'm going to use it on my page ^o^. Thank you ~ .
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Used it on my "front page"(dA-ID), thank you so much for creating it
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I've used your stamp! Thank you so much!
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Hi there! Im using this stamp! Im glad this stamp Exist!!!
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[link] thank you for your passion and integrity in creating art featured here!
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Hi I used your stamp :3 Thankyou for making it !
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