demiseo opened this issue on Aug 29, 2008 · 14 posts
demiseo posted Thu, 04 September 2008 at 9:53 AM
It's just a small, non-art based forum. people take all sorts of anime images & erotic art images just as a little symbol. I've seen people on these forums, average users tho, using images of things that could be considered property, but noone is making any claims or assertations that they own any of the little avatar pics. While i dont have a perfect legal definition, I can honestly say trying to stop people from online grabbing little images in that way could open up a can of worms closing down many forums (including this one). While i am impressed with your work photogmark, i can honestly say noone (well not in this case at least) is trying to steal or take credit for your work.
edit: just to give an example, does acadia own that image of the cat in the crystal ball, or might someone else have made that image. Does KarenJ own ForumCat? Does bobbystahr own that painting of the old man's face? While some of those answer might be yes, some might be no, thats all the image was used for. (all examples taken from avatars of users on this thread).