My thought on this goes something along thes lines: Many people clip out an image they like from Rosity and send it to one or two friends in an email attatchment like a postcard. The friend(s), not knowing the source, likes it too, and passes it along. The internet snowball effect happens, and within a day copies of the image are planetwide, including newsrooms and other websites. Moral of the story? If you don't want your art replicated worldwide without your name attached, put a watermark or a signature on your posts here. I'm not saying any of this is a good thing -- copyright IS important and valuable -- it's just that you have to personally defend it if you really want to keep it, out here on the lawless frontier of cyberspace. It's against the law to steal a car... but you lock your door anyway. I think this is all mostly done relatively innocently by folks who just don't savvy the concept of copyright. Kinda like what happened with the brand name "Kleenex"; They tried to make everyone else call their products "facial tissue" (and legally other companies do) but everyone still asks for "a kleenex" to blow their nose on, despite what brand it really is, because the name got too popular to regulate. This particular image would be especially hard to sue anyone over since our guy Gabriel who made the (very cool by the way) image didn't really have DC comics and or Christopher Reeve's estate's rights to the likeness to start with... Superman is sort of psuedo-public domain by the same type of "Kleenex" brand syndrome mentioned above. - - -