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Lol.., where are the copy rights?

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Lol.., where are the copy rights?

Chaninja, you have to see this...

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well, the icon package named "Chaninja Style (SubZero)", was(and is), one of the greatest ip i have ever seen before.., but today when i was using a new Anti-Spyware i found something interesting.., i saw this:




..yes, it's Chaninja's ip Link

realy, Jafo.., please dont delete this post..., let people know how software developers stole skinners art..., or maybe Chaninja gave them the right to use his Ip...
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Reply #51 from WinCustomize Forums Top
'fair' ...


...lets get into the main point
Reply #52 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Hopefully Wincustomize.com can have a nice new shiny "Report this as a rip" button on each upload [as DeviantArt does] so this public 'outing' won't occur.

Sounds even better [from post #32]...

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Reply #53 from WinCustomize Forums Top
"Report this as a rip" button


lol.., ok, ready for the noob question ?


How does this button work?
Reply #54 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I'm just stupid or something, I dunno.

If you take any image, altered or not, that was created by someone other than yourself, and upload it with your name as author, without the original authors permission or giving credit to the author,I thought you were resigning it wether you put your sig on the image or not. You're still uploading it as your work with no credit to the original author, leading everyone to think that you created it.

It is assumed that an uploaded bootskin will either have a wall drawn BY the uploader [and can be signed by him] or 'belongs' to someone else [and used with permissions/whatever] and will then NOT be signed by him.


I suppose it is the word 'assumed' that is confusing. The mods assume someone has obtained the rights or permissions, but it's not required you submit them for the work to be approved. Perhaps if such rights were required, less rips would be posted and people browsing would not see such an image and 'assume' it was ripped. I would assume if I uploaded a boot with a pic of Jessica Simpson in a thong, no one would assume it was from my private photo album of my last birthday party and Jess told me I could use the pic while she was posing for it.
Reply #55 from WinCustomize Forums Top
There is no button yet TYCUS...so we don't know. A new poll maybe? And thanks for the fairness on the Kol wall...sorry Kol..not my rules.
Reply #56 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I would assume if I uploaded a boot with a pic of Jessica Simpson in a thong,

That problem wouldn't arise....we don't accept 'chick-walls'.

The issue with what constitutes an 'ownable' work always pops up regularly.

Put as simply as possible...

A wall is JUST A WALL.  Nothing you do to it really adds 'value' or is seen as incidental, or fair-use.  It is simply someone's wall/image.

A Logon/Bootskin generally is [hopefully] MORE than a wall.  It has 'value-added input from the uploader.

Provided the wall image is deemed approved for use in the context of a redistributed logon or boot then it will be accepted.

It is ALWAYS preferred that sources are credited and/or linked, but again, the ONUS is primarily upon the skinner/boot/logon uploader to determine that HE HAS THE RIGHTS TO USE THE IMAGE.

I'm pretty certain such is mentioned on OUR [Wincustomize.com] Terms Of Use....

Reply #57 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Jess told me I could use the pic while she was posing for it


oh my....
Reply #58 from WinCustomize Forums Top
There is a point that's reached when an image is altered to an extent that it can be used with out permission. Would you say that Picasso's collages are 'rips,' since he used other images and text? Does Andy Warhol owe Campbell's for his use of their soup can images?

Of course, simply colorizing an image is not at this point, but if you manipulate and integrate an image into your own work, it becomes yours. The problem seems to be that many 'rips' here don't come close to this 'point,' and the reaching of this 'point' is subjective.

If Po' takes this image of Jessica Simpson, changes the color, draws and paints on it, flips it around, burns the edges off, tears it up and put it back together, it is his interpretation of the image, thus making it his.
Reply #59 from WinCustomize Forums Top
value-added input from the uploader

This is what I started saying when I first mentioned the Vistadock Icons, only I used the word 'altered' (my bad).

How do you 'add value' to someone elses copyrighted image? I can't go into the museaum and take the Mona Lisa off the wall and say "I'm gonna alter it and add value to it." It's a finished, complete work and it's value is what it is. This 'value-added input' seems more like a loophole to me. You can change the name, but a rose is still a rose; ripping is still ripping.

That problem wouldn't arise....we don't accept 'chick-walls'.

I wish there had been a 'wink' after that so I knew if you were serious or making light. It was just an example, in case you thought that I was serious.
Reply #60 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Sorry, Po....there should have been a 'wink'...

Though it is reality....we don't accept them...

'Value added'...

Warhol doesn't own the can...or the label on it.

He cannot claim the can as his own 'artifact'.

Likewise a wallpaper belonging to one person cannot be 'owned' by another.

Warhol DOES own the painting of the can.  He 'value-added' to the can by redefining it as a painting.

Campbells got a bit upset...though the PR must have been priceless...

The Logon uploader/skinner has more to do than just insert bitmap100 [the wall from elsewhere].  He has to also skin/draw/create a dozen or two other images.....and the sum of all that becomes the Logon....analogous to Warhol's painting.

Warhol did NOT sign the Painting 'Campbells', nor does the Logon skinner need to change his uploading nick to that of the wall artist.

Both have a responsibility [?] to not confuse ownership of that which makes up the end result.

With Warhol it was self-evident.

With [some but not all] of the Logons/boots it is not, and therein lies the problem....

Reply #61 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I can't go into the museaum and take the Mona Lisa off the wall and say "I'm gonna alter it and add value to it." It's a finished, complete work and it's value is what it is.


Are you sure?

Reply #62 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I just wanted to take a minute to thank those of you that hoped I would reconsider, it means a great deal.

*Sighs* unfortunately no, the decisions been made and it is too late to back out now... I have my work posted at Deviant Art, all of it and then some, LoL.. Also I am a member of Skinnalicious, Skin Your Screen and I may join one other site, if they'll have me..but as far as WC..im done. It isnt the only circus in town, and it's time to move on.

Too bad, there are still alot of people here that I admire, but then, many of them also belong to other sites as well so I will run into them...

For those of you that think all I was after is my "15 minutes of fame" allow me to assure you I really tried to avoid the embarrassment of that 15 minutes..but im only human, with slight anger managment issues.."I can only take so much and then I cant take no more"..LoL

At anyrate people, I'll be around the net somwhere..LoL
Take care,
Z.
Reply #63 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I understand totally DZ. All of my work and more is at DA too. See ya there.
Reply #64 from WinCustomize Forums Top

the decisions been made and it is too late to back out now...

It's never too late, Bob.  Even deleted works can be salvaged/restored within a reasonable time [though not always the case]...

Reply #65 from WinCustomize Forums Top
bye double zero
Reply #66 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I just wanted to take a minute to thank those of you that hoped I would reconsider, it means a great deal.


gg., man, i feel so bad now.., i mean for wrighting this post....
Reply #67 from WinCustomize Forums Top
not you, TYCUS...don't pick that up...walk on, bro. You're just fine.
Reply #68 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Damn that Pandora and her evil box!
Reply #69 from WinCustomize Forums Top
After all this copyright talk, a bootskin just posted...Alien vs Predator 3, has printed right on the bottom the copyright restrictions. "Private use only" is pretty plain to see. No one needs to go searching too far to find that and I have to say I'm pretty amazed it got posted after all of this. Oh well, just an observation.....
Reply #70 from WinCustomize Forums Top
 boss0190 ...thanks for that....glitch in the matrix...it was 'supposed' to go the 'other' way...
Reply #71 from WinCustomize Forums Top
No problem Jafo. Regarding the Prince of Persia bootskins uploaded at the same time by the same person, from the Ubisoft website:

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Just in case there was another "glitch"
Reply #72 from WinCustomize Forums Top
they're still there
Reply #73 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Regarding the Prince of Persia bootskins uploaded at the same time by the same person, from the Ubisoft website:

The problem arises here that the uploader might not have sourced the image/s directly from the Ubisoft Website ...but may have found them elsewhere, devoid of usage restriction/s....thus making the uploader believe he was 'in the right' in using/uploading them.

Perhaps...

Any and ALL Boots or Logons should be automatically refused [moderated] if they do not have links to their source.

It seems obvious that some people cannot be relied-upon to confirm DEFINITIVE consent.

This matter needs discussion between Admins/moderators to determine formal policy.

Either way it will be difficult to adopt for existing uploads retrospectively....

Reply #74 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hey Sir B., could ya use a smaller font

Perhaps...

Any and ALL Boots or Logons should be automatically refused [moderated] if they do not have links to their source.

Hey Jafo; would that mean have to upload apop, terragen, bryce and PSP X files to photobucket to link for source
Reply #75 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Ok. Good to hear it will be discussed. There seems to be far too much leeway left to the moderators by not having as clear cut a policy as there should be.

Oh, and it does say there that even if Ubisoft permits it to be used on other sites, it will still be for personal use only.