ZBomber Posted July 22, 2003 Share Posted July 22, 2003 I agree with you Kila, but he could atleast asked permission from David. Even if he said no, I'm sure he'd make him one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynk Former Posted July 22, 2003 Share Posted July 22, 2003 I know I would be angry if anyone stole my avatar. I mean i made it and it has ME in it so if anyone else used it I'd think of them as being a bastard and I'd do what I could to get them to change it and never steal my av again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pbguy1211 Posted July 22, 2003 Share Posted July 22, 2003 I'd be pissed if someone stoll my avi since it's not really able to be made by everyone for another 2 months. however... now YD has a wicked new avi! The One Ring! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swphreak Posted July 22, 2003 Share Posted July 22, 2003 Originally posted by Lil Killa I don't see what all the fus is about I mean it's a picture plain and simple. sure it may be someone elses work of art but unless it is copyrighted or something like that I don't see why anyone shouldn't be ably to use anyone elses av or sig pic. It's called Plagiarism. It's his intellecual property. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercatfat Posted July 22, 2003 Share Posted July 22, 2003 Actually, it's legally OK under the fair use law, since he's not using it for personal profit. If you really want to play the overzealous legal wannabe, though, the matrix code and the Obi-wan are both intellectual property stolen from their respective sources. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt-- Posted July 22, 2003 Share Posted July 22, 2003 Anyone that creates a work holds the copyright to it. YD, If you want me to kill 'his' avatar, send me a pm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remi Posted July 23, 2003 Share Posted July 23, 2003 Holds the copyright to the Star Wars and Matrix part? The user doesn't hold any copyright to any of those. Still lame for somebody else to nab it obviously, but oh well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Young David Posted July 23, 2003 Share Posted July 23, 2003 I PM-ed him ... He pm-ed back Originally PM-ed to YD by VA_Rebel_Spies Sorry about that. A freind gave it to me as well as others. I'll chaneg that. Rebel That was yesterday ... I'll give him one day more (it's a shame how bad the english is from some americans). On the topic of avatar stealing. Ofcourse obi wan, the matrix code and the ringspell are property of big companies. Yet they allow use of their pictures to a certain degree. Otherwise sites like theforce.net and theonering.net couldn't even exist. For fan reasons limited use of their material is allowed ... You'd think LG did pay to create the LF banner at the top of this page? No, they didn't (correct me if I'm wrong). Why do I find this important? Well ... first, making an animated avatar is not as easy as scaling a picture to 70x70 pixels. My basis avatar 'obi.gif' is a frame by frame subtraction from a SW trailer, rescaled, adjusted and made less than 20kb. the 'obi-matrix.gif' is a whole other story. I've combined two animations with different sizes and frames and made them transparant. Because of increase of motion in the animation I had to drop some frames and decrease the quality a bit. After that it took some color adjustment (like the obi-ring.gif avatar, it needs more blue) to coplete it. Second, the avatar represents me. When people see a post with an animated holo obi-wan next to it, they think of me. There's only one who has that avatar, and that's me. It's kinda like my face on the forum. So I don't wanna see anyone with that avatar running around here, let alone without asking permission. That's not only for obi.gif, but also obi-matrix.gif, obi-ring.gif and all future variations ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Gnarly Posted July 23, 2003 Author Share Posted July 23, 2003 Still an avatars supposed to represent you and if hes stealing another persons avatar hes not really representing himself hes showing the avatar of someone else. So LK your avatar cant be stolen unless someone else has those initials but then again yours isnt the fanciest thing in the world so no one would think about stealing it. DAMN YOU YD, YOU BEAT ME TO IT AGAIN! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Cheat Posted July 23, 2003 Share Posted July 23, 2003 yeah an avatar is a very personal thing and it isnt cool when somebody uses one that you work hard to make Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt-- Posted July 23, 2003 Share Posted July 23, 2003 General characters would probably fall under the fair use clause. Originally posted by RemiO Holds the copyright to the Star Wars and Matrix part? The user doesn't hold any copyright to any of those. Still lame for somebody else to nab it obviously, but oh well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Young David Posted July 25, 2003 Share Posted July 25, 2003 It appears he changed the avatar ... one less thing to worry about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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