Since there is no voting, and therefore no winners or losers, I see no reason why we cannot include our names with our submissions. We used to post our submissions with our names on them, and it never seemed to be a problem. The reason I think this is a good idea is that of the implied copyright, i.e. as the original author you own the copyright whether or not you have taken the bother (and expense) of registering it with the Copyright Office. However, since the first time the work has ever appeared in a public fora (the Challenge), it appears with no claim of authorship. Granted, Renderosity could substantiate the submitters claim that they indeed posted it, but who knows how much trouble and effort that would take. It's not that I think I'm going to post some Pulitzer Prize worthy piece in a Challenge here, but I still don't like the idea that my work (no matter how humble) is just hanging out there with no claim of authorship attached. If my memory serves, the whole point of making the posts anonymous was to prevent popularity contest votes. Since there are no votes, what is the point now? Just some food for thought. jon

 
~jon
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