It should have been removed but I disagree that people should automatically "know better". There are your repeat infringers who are obvious but there is also the possibility that the person has been told that a significant change is all that is needed. In my years online with digital art, I've run into quite a number who truely believe this to be true.

"Kyle Poll, WSUSA vice president, headed up a campus marketing venture of "Supa Fan" t-shirts, which uses an alteration of D.C. Comics Superman trademark. D.C. Comics could not be reached for comment on this issue. Intermountain T-shirt's Brian Bartholomew, who produces the t-shirts for sale at WSU, said, "A certain percentage of the image has been changed and that makes it legal."

And another misleading article: http://www.allworth.com/Articles/article10.htm

Now most of us here know this isn't the case but not everyone does. Those that don't, have the right to be notified in private. It's the repeat infringers who should be served notice in public. Just like if you have a problem with a merchant. Have the decency to take it up in private and if you don't get a fix, then perhaps is the time to make the issue public.

Perhaps the practice of informing the member personally and directly first to determine purposeful infringement or honest mistake, then making a fair statement in the correct forum informing people that an error has occured and the use of the file is an infringement. If it can be done without a public lynching mentality, perhaps by a mod where the thread could be locked right away. This would protect an honest person making an honest mistake from the public slander based not on that persons knowledge or lack of, but on what we assume they "should know".

...... Kendra