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Published: 2006-06-11 05:03:49 +0000 UTC; Views: 51353; 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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Comments: 363
I try to avoid breaching copyright as much as I can.
A friend wanted to make a journal skin for me, and I wanted it to have a specific character on it, but instead of using an image that somebody else had done, I drew the character myself.
I just don't understand why people think art theft is okay, and do it without feeling as though they've done anything wrong... ?
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Thanks. Although personal blogs/sites aren't such a big deal, it does feel "more personal" if you use your own stuff.
People don't feel wrong because "making a copy isn't stealing".
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Thank you for the FAQ links on the Submission Policies. I find the issue of copyright one that is very hard to be 100% pure in, due to the pervasive nature of intellectual property in this digital age. Everything is easily "grabbed". Growing up with the internet and its capabilites, I have had to learn what is wrong, even though it can be done with a computer, and seems to be encouraged to be done (e.g. downloading images....as a young boy I didn't see anything wrong with d/l and printing images I saw online...there were options to do so and so I did...but now I know more and more about copyright). I will use these links in an effort to further respect copyright. I have favorite-ed the stamp because I understand and agree, and wish to look back on this from time to time as a reminder and aid to keep making sure of what is acceptable.
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I'm glad you found the links helpful.
By the way, there is absolutely nothing wrong with downloading and printing images found on the internet... unless you're selling the copies.
It's just unfair to earn fame or money from someone else's work without them being a part of it.
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This is so important, particularly with the, "if it's for free, it's for me" generation.
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Though my art's not that good and no one steals it I can definately see the artist's side, you don't spend hours doing a picture just for someone to steal it and have people crediting them!
I've personally seen a few people steal art for some reason or another.
Someone went onto Google, found some picture and was gonna use that character for their own. And when I found out, I gave them a huge rant because they did not plan to even give credit.
Not to mention one person found a picture that was very detailed and looked like it had taken hours to draw and he lied saying it was his. And he was doing this on my site too, the other admins and I were so mad about his lie that we told him next time he steals art he's banned from our site.
It may not fix the problem completely, but at least there are many who agree with you.
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I'm glad to hear you're a supporter. ^^
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Great stamp, and you did a good job with the write-up and links, too. Thank you.
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I used your stamp in my artists comments here is the link to my gallery [link]
have a beautiful day
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Hi!
Thanks for creating this stamp
How can i display this stamp in my journal?(link?)
Can i add this to artists comments below the work as well?
thanks for your time
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:thumb34592358: Will work in your journals and your own "Artist's Comments".
Elsewhere, use a direct link to this deviation, which is this: [link] or [link]
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Thank you i really appreciate that
I will be placing the stamp in my 'Artist's Comments'
This seems perfect
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Hi!
Thanks for creating this stamp
How can i display this stamp in my journal?(link?)
Can i add this to artists comments below the work as well?
thanks for your time
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cuz i believe i misused this stamp...
terribly sorry
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Aww ok.
Are you thinking of changing your attitude?
Or you don't completely agree?
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no i agree, its just that its one thing to say you can support it, but its another where circumstances cant allow you to follow through, and sometimes i feel awful about it not being able to follow through
like you say you should always get permission, and i TOTALLY agree... but its hard getting in contact with people and the RIGHT people when you want to borrow their work...
all i can do is give credit, and however this stamp and the explanation behind it says its not enough, and i feel bad that giving credit is all i can do and thats how far my feet can take me... even if its for something like this...
[link]
again id like to apologize if i seem like im a whiny hypocrite...
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That's ok.
There are some people who are near-impossible to contact - Those are usually the big companies. The big companies usually don't mind re-use without permission.
But on deviantART, things are different. It's site policy to have permission for everything. I like to make sure I'm following the rules here.
I don't mind people re-using official images and celebrity photos outside deviantART, as long as they credit properly. (Not Google!)
However, if it's an independent artist or small company, I will try to help them out.
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I always ask permison with from a creator I can et incontact with.
Not like SE, I cant get in contat with FUNamation but for Grim Reaer School I ask t creaor,
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So if you can't contact someone, that's ok? :/
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How can I contact the creator of the anime Soul Eater or FMA.B?
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you are right credit isnt the same as getting permission. hate artTHEFTS
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~hahah i was just getting u'r permission lol
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How in the hell is someone going to ask permission to draw/use something if they live in a totally different continent? Or what if they're dead? I'm not going to go alllll the way to Japan just to ask Satoshi Tajiri if I can draw his Pokemon.
So we give credit (ex. Pokemon (c) Satoshi Tajiri / Nintedo), sometimes people already know who it belongs too.
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If the person is dead, you wait 70 years and then the copyright is clear. UNLESS the rights were passed on to their children, company or bought by someone.
Ask someone in another continent? Well there's email. Or writing a letter. They do get those in other countries. If you send someone a formal letter/email (especially if they see "Pokemon" or their name in it several times) chances are they'll want to know what it says and translate it.
Fan art (if this is what you're talking about), is technically copyright infringement. But generally speaking, the big and famous people like it, so it's not a problem to them. If Tajiri/Nintendo didn't like fan art, they would make some big public notice about it.
If it's not someone big, like a deviantART artist, they'd probably want to know if you wrote fiction or drew something with their OCs. Because it's courtesy, and because they are not big and famous they probably DO want to know about every little bit of attention they get.
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Like somebody would actually wait 70 years just to use their stuff.
Soooo who do I exactly write the letter too? Or email?
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70+ years after the creator dies, it becomes public domain. Unless the creator gives the copyright to someone else before they die. There are tons of free images/videos/etc which have expired copyright and have become public domain.
Find a mail/email address? Every artist should have some form of contact easily found. Try their website?
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I like this, I'm going to use this in my artist comments XD thank youuu!!!
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No, thank you for sharing the stamp!
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Recently I had an EX friend steal a roleplay character and their storyline from me and it was a very irritating experience and I would have stopped at nothing to make sure that they didn't get away with it. Internet theft is very, very pathetic. It shows lack of self confidence, a level of lowness, that you have no morals, well, all in all, it's really pathetic. At least, the least the could do is say who was the original artist, if they don't tell the artist themsel. But written permission IS necessary and really, it's borderline against the law when they steal something.
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Oh boy, I sure as ever know the feeling. I had to write this up after so many of mine and my friends things were used without permission.
Lots of people are wising up to it, but it still goes on today!
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I'm sorry.
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Not only do I agree, but I must say that I'm glad someone is so concerned over this dilemma as to put so much helpful info and the like in the comments.
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You have been featured in this Stamp Collection! [link]
P.S. Fave the article so more people see it!
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Artists, but not those who didn't make it (aka publishers).
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I'm not sure I understand what you mean.
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Well, publishers are those who don't make works and only distribute them , but take the majority of money.
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