Let us look into what is and is not copy right law.
Here is a link to information as it applies to furry artist thanks to Glen
Wooten and Company. (For those of you not in the know he is the Spouse of
Terrie "little paw" Smith)
http://www.rexx.com/~jaguar/copyright.html
Irregardless of what a person thought if I site does or does not wish to
post or display art from another site or any artist it is that sites
prerogative to do so, whatever their rational for doing so is.
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Chris L Hanssen <
zigzaglover4ever_at_cablespeed.com> wrote:
> What if they don't own the characters they draw what then? Their
> stealing as well.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com [mailto:
> SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com]*On Behalf Of *Karl Kratt
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 24, 2008 2:51 PM
> *To:* SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com
> *Subject:* Re: [SkunkworksAMA] Fchan Fiasco
>
> Well Dr. Comet has an issue with people posting his artwork, probably
> because he's a professional artist and most professional artists, even when
> they do fan stuff, dont' like their adult works shown to the public. Wookiee
> was the same way until his parents died. Shawntae Howard doesn't like it
> because it's difficult to control your Intellectual Property if it's spread
> all over the net.
>
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Ross Sauer <archae_at_charter.net> wrote:
>
>> I do have one problem with one person's POV on this issue.
>>
>> Jim has every right to want to protect his creations, because they are his
>>
>> creations.
>>
>> HOWEVER...
>>
>> "Dr Comet" draws superbly, but nearly all of his pictures are of
>> copyrighted
>> characters already.
>> Krystal from "Starfox," many anime characters, Colleen from "Road Rovers,"
>>
>> etc.
>>
>> Yet Dr Comet raises holy heck if anyone posts his fanart of those
>> copyrighted characters.
>> I'm a co-moderator of a Krystal fangroup, and we've deleted Comet pictures
>>
>> of Krystal as soon as we got them, since we don't want Comet to gripe to
>> Yahoo and then Yahoo makes our group disappear.
>> (This actually has happened to other groups)
>>
>> As to lulz.net, they are a bunch of hiding-behind-the keyboard weenies.
>>
>>
>
>
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The fears, prejudices and limitations that we impose on ourselves must
someday pass, because they are not as real as hope, tolerance and
possibility. - Gene Roddenberry, Creator of "Star Trek"
Received on Fri Jul 25 2008 - 03:18:20 CDT