raven opened this issue on Aug 09, 2000 ยท 4 posts
raven posted Wed, 09 August 2000 at 8:02 PM
Hopefully, JKellers Trenchcoat Man will be up at Propsguild soon. I've sent it there as there seems to be a lot of requests for it lately. I tried to get touch with JKeller but was unable to. So hopefully he doesn't mind :)
Nance posted Thu, 10 August 2000 at 3:56 AM
Nice thought raven, but, as I feel certain Virus will tell you, reposting other peoples work without explicit permission is generally frowned upon 'round here. And, as far as I know, no one has heard from JKeller in a while.
raven posted Thu, 10 August 2000 at 7:05 AM
I mailed Virus first about it, explaining how I tried to contact JKeller. I noticed another file by JKeller there so hoped he wouldn't mind. Virus then mailed me back to say he'd host it. Hope that clears up any reposting problems. I'm not trying to take any credit, just help out a bit.
Nance posted Fri, 11 August 2000 at 2:51 PM
It is clear that your intentions are well meaning, and that you have approached it prudently. But while I don't mean to sound argumentative raven (really) it was not an issue of taking credit. Rather, I was addressing an artist's right to control publication and distribution of their original work. Just because someone removes an item that they had previously posted, it remains no one else's right to choose to redistribute that work without permission. Although it is indeed likely that it was just abandoned, it may have been removed by him intentionally for any number of reasons to which we are not privy. For example, JKeller may have removed the work because he is intending to start selling it. Or, he may never have had the right to post it in the first place and was asked to remove it. In either case, reposting the work without permission would not be in the artists best interest. and again, is not our decision to make. The custom in this community in the past has been in all cases, if it is not your work, it is not your right, and it is not your choice. (but 'nuff said - not my work, not my site & I ain't no copyright sheriff) ;-)