AgentSmith opened this issue on Aug 12, 2003 ยท 49 posts
catlin_mc posted Tue, 12 August 2003 at 7:19 PM
I do not consider myself a thief, but I regularly save images from one of my favourite artists Occdoug. From one of these saves I made a height map of the sculpted form he had made and turned it into a terrain which I proceeded to make an image with. The thing is that I made this as a tribute to someone who's work I really admire and when I told Doug about it and asked if it would be ok to post it he was more than happy to give me his permission. For what I have done here am I a thief or an art admirer? It's almost the same as cutting images out of magazines and making a collage, traditional artists have been doing this for years and have been praised for their work. I just don't feel comfortable with this blanket ruling and the implied guilt of anyone who has done as I have done, as in not asking for permission first. Catlin