I'm not on Bahamut and I hate Sisterfuck.

[thestalkmore]

I remember like 3 people stole my cat sign awhile ago ;/

Did you take that video?

[Sonomaa]

some bitch on KI stole my avatar, pretty annoying ; ;
http://www.killingifrit.com/users.php?m ... s&id=38062

LOL, did you draw that yourself because that'd be even more lols

no, a real good friend drew it for me, its supposed to be special ; ;

[Devek]

Don't worry Sonomaa, don't you know that cats have nine lives?

[BRP]

I remember like 3 people stole my cat sign awhile ago ;/

Did you take that video?

Did you produce the 300 movie?

[Tricen]

I remember like 3 people stole my cat sign awhile ago ;/

Did you take that video?

Did you produce the 300 movie?

Yeah, I made it in my basemuntz.

[Heian]

Ithink the real question is...

Zigma, may I use you?

Oh and I'd also fuck TSM does that make me a bad person!?!

[SchuldigGER]

They should credit him, and ask him if it's okay for him to use it at the very least. That's really fucking rude of whoever stole it, and I'd be PISSED if that happened to me.

I actually remember when Zerocool stole my avatar that someone made for me and I know he was doing it TO be a douche, but it got my panties in a real twist. I was so mad at him for that shit.

If someone puts any amount of work into a sig/avatar/whatever then for other people to use it it's a common courtesy to ask permission first. End of story.

This is the Internet ... theres no copyright at stalkys sig and he didnt even took the time to remove the name of Stalkmore.
i think stalkmore should be proud his sig is recognized by other ppl so much that they even fake pretend its theirs.
That shows how good that sig is.
btw this is gonna be my new sig !
http://www.datazap.net/sites/Lbelle/garnet12345.png

how you like it ?

[Tomiko]

If someone puts any amount of work into a sig/avatar/whatever then for other people to use it it's a common courtesy to ask permission first. End of story.

Can I use your old Midna avatar for MSN then >.>

[Jefe]

It's a damn sig for god's sake, the end is nigh!!! Be flattered, I guess.

[aurik]

They should credit him, and ask him if it's okay for him to use it at the very least. That's really fucking rude of whoever stole it, and I'd be PISSED if that happened to me.

I actually remember when Zerocool stole my avatar that someone made for me and I know he was doing it TO be a douche, but it got my panties in a real twist. I was so mad at him for that shit.

If someone puts any amount of work into a sig/avatar/whatever then for other people to use it it's a common courtesy to ask permission first. End of story.

This is the Internet ... theres no copyright at stalkys sig and he didnt even took the time to remove the name of Stalkmore.

Shows how little you know about copyright.

[Sonomaa]

They should credit him, and ask him if it's okay for him to use it at the very least. That's really fucking rude of whoever stole it, and I'd be PISSED if that happened to me.

I actually remember when Zerocool stole my avatar that someone made for me and I know he was doing it TO be a douche, but it got my panties in a real twist. I was so mad at him for that shit.

If someone puts any amount of work into a sig/avatar/whatever then for other people to use it it's a common courtesy to ask permission first. End of story.

This is the Internet ... theres no copyright at stalkys sig and he didnt even took the time to remove the name of Stalkmore.

Shows how little you know about copyright.

it would be better if you enlightened us about it as opposed to just saying a witty retort

[Balduran]

I am not going to try to clarify that using other people's sig is right or wrong here, thats a different issue.

If an SFLS members uses a signature belonging to someone else, and the creator of that signature is bothered because an SFLS member uses his sig, why does it reflect entirely on the linkshell that this person who took the sig belongs to? you already 'hate us' just because one of our members uses your sig? It not like SFLS encourages their members to steal sigs. If the person who took your sig wasen't in SFLS, but another LS, would you still go out and blame that LS for this person's action?

[Khamsin]

Someone on this forum stole my old bubbly bernie sig for his avatar!!1!

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f1.../crabscan2.gif

... but it's ok, since he asked first and I told him he could use it since I replaced it.

There was a thread on BG a while back about people "borrowing" my corsair sig.

I'm looking for the full-sized and rather large "captain.jpg" Corsair picture that was around for awhile. All of the old links to it are now broken.

Most people use this smaller "minicaptain.jpg" (shown below) for their signatures, but it just won't do for wallpapers and the like.

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...inicaptain.jpg

I'm wondering if anyone might have saved the larger version saved to their computer and would be willing to upload it for me or provide me with a link. ^^;

Thank you!

Ah, thanks Khamsin!

Yes, that's what I was looking for!

Yeah, your creation is pretty, well... "borrowed" at this point. Lots of people use it for their signatures/avatars or to denote ToAU.

Where did you get the barrel/straw from if you don't mind me asking?

I don't think those are standard FFXI items.

Although I don't recall ever seeing anyone using my sig, so I think he may have been exaggerating. Which is good, because I didn't say anybody could use it!

[SchuldigGER]

They should credit him, and ask him if it's okay for him to use it at the very least. That's really fucking rude of whoever stole it, and I'd be PISSED if that happened to me.

I actually remember when Zerocool stole my avatar that someone made for me and I know he was doing it TO be a douche, but it got my panties in a real twist. I was so mad at him for that shit.

If someone puts any amount of work into a sig/avatar/whatever then for other people to use it it's a common courtesy to ask permission first. End of story.

This is the Internet ... theres no copyright at stalkys sig and he didnt even took the time to remove the name of Stalkmore.

Shows how little you know about copyright.

actually you are right i dont know anything about internationel Copyright law.
Im german, and i know about german copyright law and that says that no idea belongs to you untill you get the "patent" (no idea what that would be called in english) for it.

[Xavier]

a patent, but I think thats more to do w/ actual ideas/concepts/scientific designs.

I don't know the specifics but I assume there has to be some basic protection for original art work, such that if I drew a picture, you couldn't take the picture, claim it as your own, and sell it for $100, so long as I had proof that I actually made it.

[theo]

I took a basic intro to design course last semester, and the professor told us that any original piece of work that you create is automatically copyrighted to yourself by law. He does that kind of stuff for a living so i think i can trust him when he says that.

Now whats questionable about the sig is the fact that it uses two entities which he himself did not create - a tarutaru and an image from 300. Does he get some kind of copyright protection simply for designing the sig, even though he can't claim ownership of tarus or 300? Honestly I have no idea.

[Devek]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Conv ... stic_Works

[Jefe]

Now whats questionable about the sig is the fact that it uses two entities which he himself did not create - a tarutaru and an image from 300. Does he get some kind of copyright protection simply for designing the sig, even though he can't claim ownership of tarus or 300? Honestly I have no idea.

Although it is true that an artist/w/e doesn't need a copyright or trademark on the piece of work, in this case logic tells me the person in question does not hold any rights to the image. This is based only on the assumption he did the good olde cut n paste from the original work (300 and FFXI).

A clear example is Duchamp's reproduction of Leonardo's Mona Lisa. Duchamp claimed it as his own because he drew it and "added" additional elements to it (a mustache and goatee -.-

http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/4...mplhooqsk3.jpg

[Malaquist]

Someone jacked my battle pope sig.. But instead of saving the pic, he print screened his desktop with it open and used MSpaint to edit it. There was bout an inch and a half of white to the left and top and he blurred out battle pope and put his name, which you could tell. It was seriously LOL.

It's not even hard to fix things like that in mspaint. It has a white background behind the text so you could just scribble over it in white. Poor MSPaint gets a bad reputation. ; ;

As for the OP, whether it's protected under copyright law or not, it's pretty stupid to leave the name there without even asking the owner if you could use it.

[aurik]

I took a basic intro to design course last semester, and the professor told us that any original piece of work that you create is automatically copyrighted to yourself by law. He does that kind of stuff for a living so i think i can trust him when he says that.

Now whats questionable about the sig is the fact that it uses two entities which he himself did not create - a tarutaru and an image from 300. Does he get some kind of copyright protection simply for designing the sig, even though he can't claim ownership of tarus or 300? Honestly I have no idea.

It's a derivative work, so TSM could theoretically get a Cease&Desist about it.

That said, the statement that "theres no copyright [symbol], therefore it's not copyrighted" is incredibly ignorant.