I think copyright has mostly to do with respect! How much do you respect your fellow artists, how much you value and appreciate their effort and work they put in a model...then it comes to the next step..how inflated an opinion you have of yourself to call something your very own when you have used Morphs, props and a zillion utilities -all available for free- to reach the final outcome...I guess this has to be answered by each and everyone individually according to his/her ethics! Some people are sensitive and cautious.. others just don't care! I always make sure to give credit even to the creator of the slightest important prop when I use it..whether it's an image or a character..even when it's so transformed or modified that most probably wouldn't be recognized by him if he saw it! To me that's the right way to do things! I've seen stuff of mine as well as others that I do recognize, being used without the slightest credit given.. it upsets me, yes, but then I accept it since I've chosen myself to participate in the freebies game too..noone forced me! The only way to be 100% sure that any of your creations will never get abused is never to post anything! But sometimes..it's worth it to spend a few minutes more to search in your database or post a thread just to find the creator of something you use..we spend endless hours to create an image or character or texture we are proud of ..what's a few minutes more? But then as I said..people are not all the same! Sad but true! Maybe if we DID respect each other more -instead of tearing each other's flesh so often- there would be no need for copyrights..an Utopia I know..but that's the way I feel about this subject. :o)

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