Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Stealing our Art work, for Tubs/

Turtle opened this issue on Apr 18, 2003 ยท 71 posts


FyreSpiryt posted Mon, 21 April 2003 at 6:42 AM

There's really no way to stop the truly determined jerks. Protection methods are... well, isn't there a saying that locks are to keep honest people honest? This is the first time in US history that the average citizen is coming up against copyright law, and if the lawyers and courts don't understand it completely, you can bet that they don't. I see everything from authors who have a fit if you actually MAKE something from the book of craft patterns they sell, to people like these tubers (potatoheads? slaps self sorry) who think anything that isn't nailed down and on fire is fair game. And before I go too far off into tangentland, my point ultimately is that you have the people who don't know and the people who don't care. You're going to be hard pressed to stop the people who don't care. Right-click disabling, transparent overlays, mouse-overs, slicing images; they know the ways around them. Those methods only really stop the people who don't know, the ones who go "ooh, pretty" and right-click save without realizing that it is a copyright violation. And each method will probably stop them that one time, but wouldn't it be better to educate them to stop them always? All rightie, I know that was a long way to walk for my suggestion. Anyway, my suggestion is that instead of or at least in addition to using those other methods, on the top of your webpage (unfortunately this isn't as practical in the galleries), put a link to one of the good non-accusatory "what is copyright?" sites and put a little blurb along the lines of: "Please do not save images off of my site. I have had problems with people taking them, turning parts of them into PSP tubes, and passing them on. Even if they aren't making money off of it, it is still against the law; they don't have to make a profit to violate my copyright. It isn't fair use; fair use in legal terms means a critique or analysis of my image, and nothing else. For more information on copyright, please see the above link. Please help me share my work without being stolen from."