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| Gen 1735th Post
 
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|  "Re(7):Ok to use a Falcoon picture as an Avata"
, posted Fri 27 Jun 02:31:
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By the way Ktallguy's icon was drawn I think by Akiman http://www12.big.or.jp/~akiman / who was paid by Capcom www.capcom.co.jp to draw a character originally made by SNK www.playmore.co.jp .
Well... now I feel bad about having an avatar in the first place =)
Maybe I should bust out some of my stick figure art =P
(Well after I brought part of is up I remembered I didn't want to bring it up in the first place - I should have just left it at suggesting checking out Falcoon's web site.) Sorry I was just bring that up for the sake of discussion in response to the idea that it's not good to upset a respected artist, so I was just pointing out that Akiman who's a respected artist made it, no offesnse is meant to anyone.
Here's another part I thought of bringing up, that I wanted to bring up: The factor that a lot of the companies don't actually care. Does SNK care if you down load DC iso of KOF2002 or the Neo Geo Matrimelee software that was dumped from a cartridge? Yeah. Do they care if you scan a picture out of an art book and crop it for a message board picture? Well, they probably care less about that. SNK put on their site to please not copy images from their web site to other sites, so somewhat in response to that I took down many SNK images I had up. The riaa is going to prove that they care when the sue individual users. I think if an artist puts on his site somewhere "please don't copy these to your web site", like I think CLAMP does, then its reasonable to not. I don't know if Falcoon has such a message at his site.
By the way SNK has said on their web site that they give you permission to make your own drawings and such of SNK characters, This would give legal justification to Falcoon's web site, or to doujinshi makers. :) So for fan art they don't care, officially. (Actually to me they obviously love fan art.)
The main point I wanted to underline in response to your original question is just that in this case it's easy to go to Falcoon's site and ask him.
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Oh, and BTW Gen, your Ariloulaleelay avatar was drawn by someone on this page =
http://www.classicgaming.com/starcontrol/sc2/credits.shtml
Careful, Fred Ford and Paul Reiche III might sue you =P
http://sc2.sourceforge.net/
:)
[this message was edited by Gen on Fri 27 Jun 02:34] |
| DarkZero
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| "Re(8):Ok to use a Falcoon picture as an Avata" , posted Fri 27 Jun 05:54
Personally, unless the artist has specifically said, "No, don't use my art for anything at all," on their website, I don't think you should bother them with an inane request like, "Do you mind if I use your art as an avatar on some little message board?" If they haven't even bothered to put the nine simple little words, "No, don't use my art for anything at all," on their website, then they can't care very much then, can they? And if they start to care at some point, they could always put it on their site later and then someone would politely tell you that Falcoon has just decided that he doesn't want people using his art for avatars and such and that you should stop using it.
It's no different than free music sites like Overclocked Remix. Not every artist specifically says, "Hey, make sure you put this up on WinMX and Kazaa (Lite) for me, okay?" but since they're releasing a song for free to the public, there's sort of a reasonable assumption that they aren't going to be pissed off about someone liking their song enough to spread it. Perhaps, however, as with a song traded on a P2P service, you should put Falcoon's name somewhere around it, like in your signature. Credit where credit's due, y'know.
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| KTallguy
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| "Re(9):Ok to use a Falcoon picture as an Avata" , posted Fri 27 Jun 07:12
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Personally, unless the artist has specifically said, "No, don't use my art for anything at all," on their website, I don't think you should bother them with an inane request like, "Do you mind if I use your art as an avatar on some little message board?" If they haven't even bothered to put the nine simple little words, "No, don't use my art for anything at all," on their website, then they can't care very much then, can they? And if they start to care at some point, they could always put it on their site later and then someone would politely tell you that Falcoon has just decided that he doesn't want people using his art for avatars and such and that you should stop using it.
Well, that was my initial opinion on that. I WOULD credit him in my sig.
One problem is, I can't read enough Japanese to decipher his pages =) So I really don't know if he has any sort of disclaimer.
I think it's important to respect the artist... still LOTS of people use avatars ripped right from a game and probably don't even know who the artist is...
=P Anyway thanks for the input, I got more people talking then I expected with my silly little post.
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