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Anyway, if Jark had read the next question in the FAQ he quoted, he would have seen my point, but he didn't. " Q:How much do I have to change in order to claim copyright in someone else's work? A:Only the owner of copyright in a work has the right to prepare, or to authorize someone else to create a new version of that work. Accordingly, you cannot claim copyright to another's work, no matter how much you change it, unless you have the owner's consent. See Circular 14.<b

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Now that I look at the second Q&A in your argument, Jark , i think you misread it. " Q. How much do I have to change in my own work to make a new claim of copyright? A. You may make a new claim in your work if the changes are substantial and creative... " that is talking about an artist getting a second copyright on a work of their own that they have substantially changed, not a third party mixing and matching someone else's work...

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LMAO... Jark, you are the biggest ass... I wasn't even talking to you, but since you stick your neck out... joe is talking about making DesktopX objects with images of an artist. your first point: ____________________________________________________________________________________ The referenced Circular 21 is "Reproduction of Copyrighted Works by Educators and Librarians", and according to FL 102: "...U.S. Copyright Law cites examples of activities that cou

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Joe: Dead artists have estates, and publicity images are owned by their entertainment company until they pass into the public domain. Aaliyah publicity images won't be public domain in your lifetime, you can bet on it. You might find other images of Aaliyah, taken by fans, press, etc., that the owner might let you use. You can't even redraw an image, even if you do it entirely by hand. It is the right of the copyright holder to say who can and can't recreate their work in any form, wh

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ugh... pandi_itrc_hp_com/busprod/overview/0,12512,series=76239%5Etype=76237%5Ecategory=76242,00.html?lsidebarLayId=79&rsidebarLayId=63 underscore = dot

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http://pandi.itrc.hp.com/busprod/overview/0,12512,series=76239%5Etype=76237%5Ecategory=76242,00.html?lsidebarLayId=79&rsidebarLayId=63 That was the sort of thing. Bit pricey, I don't think the one I saw was that expensive... I know, off-topic again, but it is a way to ahve a really, really big, portable monitor

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I saw a digital slide projector at OfficeMax the other day. It was freaky, I still haven't fathomed how it works. All I could think of is how many people would buy it to have wall-sized pr0n...

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No, one last thing. Jark I find this statement offensive, it just keeps eating at me: "...its easy to sit back and voice concern for a problem but when you do not want to attempt to help rectify it then you are just as much a part of the problem as those violating policy are." That makes everyone responsible for your business to a degree that they are as bad as people who steal and upload. That just goes to show that the 'problem' you are referring to isn't the

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www_wired_com/news/politics/0,1283,54460,00.html sorry for the broken link and the ranting. I'm done.

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, that is the same response I got before i spent months on DA, clicking that damned button. The majority were/are still there after moderators were 'caught up'. My last post stands. The material I pointed out is there. You can't blame us for what is on your server. You can't hit the first page of what amounts to a dozen-or-so problem sections in a day with 5 moderators? Do you know how s

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I just looked in again, just to make sure things hadn't changed abruptly, and the majority of images on the first few pages wallpapers>females are stolen. That is a *fact*. There is an artist uploading tons of circa wwII pin-up art that they readily admit isn't theirs, there are Britny pics, Olsen Twins pics, A No-one Lives Forever wallpaper that was taken straight from the site, and every page I click, further and further back shows the same type material, even back to material I repo

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"deviantART now has 5 individuals assigned to policy violations. This means that they take the reports they receive from the community and act on those as well as browsing through various sections and removing what are blatant policy violations." Jark , as long as your policy is reactive, and only reactive to blatant material, you will have an active community sneaking in stolen work and likenesses unapologetically. I got hate mail from one supermodel wallpaper artist a we

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To me Bryce isn't a style like "Oh, that's cubism" or "Oh, that's Impressionism", it's more akin to making model cars. Sure, one hundredth of one percent of people who make plastic model cars do insanely intricate work, molding their own parts, creating their own bodies, etc, but the rest are pretty much just gluing stuff together that they get out of a box. Would it be reasonable to spend hundreds of hours recreating from scratch a snap-together model? It would be like a 3 star chef spending

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i know htis is gonna sound harsh, but Bryce *is* a filter/effect. I mean, you don't actually paint the objects there, right? Do you paint the textures that cover the meshes? While it is distantly akin to 3d art, It is still pre-mixed to a degree that it can't be considered original, IMHO. There are a lot of people doing work like this by hand. If the 3d aspect is what you like, there are thriving 3d skinning communities around games like morrowind and quake that provide lot

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If you have a distribution/embedding license for XP I am sure MS would be of help. Otherwise, I'm not sure that replacing the branding for a commercial enterprise is legal. It would constitute reverse engineering at the very least. I would strongly urge your company to consult with MS about their EULA before front-ending their OS with your company's branding.

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Bill_Sawyer: cool link, thanks

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When I go to the 'problem' sections at Devart and find image-theft to be the exception, not the rule, I'll happily make that one of my most-visited sites, no matter the level of artistry there. I miss it, actually. It was a wonderful resource that I simply can't, in good concience, use. Sadly, posts like this look like site-bashing to them and they don't take the argument seriously. I made an almost identical post on their site several months ago, and the management's concern was that I

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Welcome to Planet M*th*rF*ck*r - White Zombie lol, you don't know how many times I've been tempted to write an app that would automatically post to one of these threads when my song changed... That'd be evil wouldn't it >

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I was talking about how you could have a bigger screen for your lappy. *IF* they make dual monitor video cards for mobile computers, your could just pack around a flatscreen of the size you want ( well -packed, I'd hope). I have a dual monitor (Matrox G450) card for my desktop, But I don't know whether or not they make them for laptops. Otherwise, you'd could get a laptop with an external monitor port, and just use a bigger, standard, monitor wherever you are working. My thinkpa

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p.s. the one area I think skinning will take off a bit more is gaming. I think that 2D interface and 3D model skinning will get more and more popular in the next few years. If I weren't a hopeless, shaking addict, on-the-wagon, I'd be skinning Everquest right now... one more point. There are a lot of interfaces outside of desktop PCs as well. Think about information kiosks, video games and gambling, and all those neato appliances that will have touch-screens in the next jillion ye

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you *could* (if you were really crasy on the idea), go buy yourself a 21" flatscreen monitor, and attatch it to the external monitor port, if your laptop has one. I know thinkpads generally do. I dunno if anyone makes matrox-style, dual-monitor video cards for laptops, but if so you could dual-monitor, and have both the 15" and the 21" running. Granted a 21" flatscreen is gonna cost ya more than you wanna pay, and you'd ahve to plug it into the wall somewhere... p.s. flexible, e

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My thoughts would be that GUI design is a bit narrow a group to build a union-type guild out of. If this comes to be I would imagine it would be a lot like other artist unions, and probably cover all 'for-monitor' art and design workers, including fontographers, iconists, even 3d artists outside the entertainment industry. As for standardized pricing and terms, that would be problematic, too. It must be enforced, i.e. punitive action for parties that work under scale. Then you must e

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Note to clique members : bjdbrad is now on the secret "Not Cool Enough" list. Sadly he won't be approved for memebership and get the ID card and fruit basket we'd been planning. All the details are on the secret clique site, along with the new nekkid pictures of Doreen, and Frogboy's latest credit card statement, all the 'questionable' purchases highlighted in blue...

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I must be really, really dim today, but I have no idea what you mean by 'cross-reference', it seems completely out of place in that context. elaborate?