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| jdbailey1206:
Doing what we do we are in a grey area. Most of the time no one here is out to make a huge financial gain. We all use 'copyrighted' material on our cabs but no one is selling anything in mass quantities. It sounds like that guy tried to see what he could sell without repercussions but it ended up that he was found with his hand in the proverbial cookie jar. |
| 8BitMonk:
Marking your work with a Creative Commons license could afford some protection and potentially ward off a casual thief. http://creativecommons.org/ |
| Vigo:
This one isn't a gray area. One term to be familiar with is "Transformative Appropriation". It is the reasoning in law that states you can make your own art pulling from existing material and own it. It is why Andy Warhol was able to make a painting of Campbells soup cans and not run into copyright infringement. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appropriation_%28art%29 Bottom Line, you have to have made a number of changes to the art for it to be transformative. If the design was merely pictures of Mario and Pac Man pasted down, then it wouldn't be yours. You obviously did a lot of unique changes from the render to make your art and in doing so it became solely your property. You don't need to own the rights to MK. That is YOUR art. Glad you were able to stop him with just a message. :cheers: |
| pbj:
"Your" control panel was an illegal use of artwork you didn't own. Most rational people in your situation take the compliment and STFU. Feel free to play wikipedia lawyer, though. :cheers: |
| Le Chuck:
--- Quote from: pbj on March 31, 2015, 10:50:12 am ---"Your" control panel was an illegal use of artwork you didn't own. Most rational people in your situation take the compliment and STFU. Feel free to play wikipedia lawyer, though. :cheers: --- End quote --- Now whose playing lawyer by tossing about words like "illegal" and "own"? You seem feisty today Jimbo, whatzit? |
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