Possible Extension of Pic Credits.

[Larxene]

Okay, that's all I wanted to know

 

I need to provide links for any new cards I make

But any older ones are fine as is

[Seta]

So now on, only liks huh? Fine to me...

[TrueMallowman]

This is, if you ask me, a fairly stupid rule in general. I don't think anyone's going to claim they actually made any of the art that they put on their cards - I have all the artistic skill of a monkey.

 

Futhermore, I at least make cards in one of two ways: Either I find an old picture on my laptop, get an idea from it and make a card, or I do a Google Image search for the content, invariably getting it from a third-party site that doesn't credit the artist. So in other words, I have no idea where any image I've ever made a card out of comes from, unless it was a screencap from Gurren-Lagann that I took myself. And as for where I got the pictures that were on my hard drive in the first place - well, if I post that, then it'll ruin the innocence of pretty much every kid who reads the thread. So yeah.

 

But that's just my two Life Points. I suppose I simply fail to see any benefit that comes from requiring artist credit. Especially if the artists haven't objected - if they have, then wouldn't it be wiser to make a DNP list instead?

[selizabeth]

This is' date=' if you ask me, a fairly stupid rule in general. I don't think anyone's going to claim they actually made any of the art that they put on their cards - I have all the artistic skill of a monkey.

 

Futhermore, I at least make cards in one of two ways: Either I find an old picture on my laptop, get an idea from it and make a card, or I do a Google Image search for the content, invariably getting it from a third-party site that doesn't credit the artist. So in other words, I have no idea where any image I've ever made a card out of comes from, unless it was a screencap from Gurren-Lagann that I took myself. And as for where I got the pictures that were on my hard drive in the first place - well, if I post that, then it'll ruin the innocence of pretty much every kid who reads the thread. So yeah.

 

But that's just my two Life Points. I suppose I simply fail to see any benefit that comes from requiring artist credit. Especially if the artists haven't objected - if they have, then wouldn't it be wiser to make a DNP list instead?

[/quote']

 

How would you feel if someone saw your card and decided to just take it and post it?

Or a better example... say you spent 10 hours working on a school project. You bring it in and put it on display, and someone sees it and thinks "oh well, I'm not good at making projects, but I'll just take this one..."

Does that sound fair? No. It doesn't.

 

Plenty of artists do object to their work being stolen and used willy nilly on the internet. That's how I ended up here - a thread on dA pointing to this forum as a place where deviantART member's work was being stolen. Quite frankly you guys have it easy just being required to give credit. If the forum was doing it the fairest way for the artists who actually MADE the art, you would all be required to ask permission of us, and not just go through our galleries like a freebie basket.

[TrueMallowman]

Personally, I'd actually feel kind of proud of myself that I'd done something good enough for someone else to want to use. I think the school project metaphor is actually the worse of the two - I'm not being deprived of anything if someone takes a picture I made and posted on the internet, then posts it on the internet shrunk down into a 300x300 block for use on a fake Yu-Gi-Oh card. If anything, I benefit, because more people see my art, which is why I posted it on the internet to begin with. I don't know about you, but on those rare occassions where I post my pathetic attempts at drawing on the internet, it's because I want people to see them.

 

Again, I don't think nearly anyone's going to claim they made the art they use. The implicit assumption when someone posts a card is usually that they didn't make the art - they got it from somewhere. If there are people who object to their work being used in making fake Yu-Gi-Oh cards, then as I said, a Do Not Post list is going to be a much easier way of going about it than requiring people to forever keep track of every image they ever acquire in case they might use it one day in a card.

[selizabeth]

Personally' date=' I'd actually feel kind of proud of myself that I'd done something good enough for someone else to want to use. I think the school project metaphor is actually the worse of the two - I'm not being deprived of anything if someone takes a picture I made and posted on the internet, then posts it on the internet shrunk down into a 300x300 block for use on a fake Yu-Gi-Oh card. If anything, I benefit, because more people see my art, which is why I posted it on the internet to begin with. I don't know about you, but on those rare occassions where I post my pathetic attempts at drawing on the internet, it's because I want people to see them.

 

Again, I don't think nearly anyone's going to claim they made the art they use. The implicit assumption when someone posts a card is usually that they didn't make the art - they got it from somewhere. If there are people who object to their work being used in making fake Yu-Gi-Oh cards, then as I said, a Do Not Post list is going to be a much easier way of going about it than requiring people to forever keep track of every image they ever acquire in case they might use it one day in a card.

[/quote']

 

Great for you then. However many of the people on dA post explicit copyright notices to not use their images... and as a matter of fact every image on dA has a "copyright _______" underneath, with the blank being the user who made the art. By using their images you all are breaking copyright and could have this board shut down.

 

You cannot expect artists to know about your board and know to come here and tell you not to use their work, especially if you're just using it and never telling them.

 

It's called stealing, and it's not okay any way you look at it.