[Avatateo]

Originally Posted by Contraire

Not exactly. The artist could have put copyright, and real consequences can occur.

In fact, I have my own layout site with copyright and it's not right to just take stuff at
free will, and putting your own rules that credit back to yourself. Animations and photo
manipulations are what most avatars are made of. It could take an artist hours to do
that, and believe me, I just spent 3 hours on this animated signature. So unless you
made the artwork, I don't think you should be putting rules and "pretend copyright"
on it that credit back to yourself.

I, myself, wouldn't be happy if someone decided to just take my signature right now,
put it on their userpage, and say, "NO STEALING! I found it, not you."

I'm just going to reiterate...

Where many of those Avatars came from it clearly states that "direct linking, stealing, archiving and posting elsewhere is strictly forbidden. Pay the artists a visit from time to time, and when used give credit to the artist (they underlined that, not me) of the icons and ***** ********." I will keep the Design co. name out. The graphic artists names are submitted with their work, and they have galleries for a reason. To be recognized. It does have them as copyright. (which is what I posted in an above post).


But Like I've said in my post above, people have outright stolen my work that's taken much longer than 3 hours (which is a long time anyway, artists times, is well, precious time)... it's just life. But it sucks.