COPYRIGHT ISSUES, RICHARD/ALL READ PLEASE!!

[Resident Alien]

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Originally posted by raynor:
I checked the artist's website. If I recall correctly, she said you are free to use certain images on your website without her explicit permission. But... she doesn't want you to use any of her images for your own roleplaying characters. So... if you use the picture to represent an entire race, I would say that the statement on her website grants you permission to use the picture.

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Two of the pictures are specificaly denied permission to be used for anything and the rest excluded for Role Playing. I am sure we could debate for a long time wether or not a race picture in SE4 is role playing or not. I think it is, you are role playing the emperor/supreme leader/etc... of this race.

Web site says: -
"As usual, I'll let you use my pictures (not the tutorials, though, and not Indeoque's image nor the one of Yeeyan and Clari) on your webpage as long as the page isn't commercial. And as usual, I don't want you to use the images for your roleplaying games characters. "

and
"The material (pictures, stories, etc) found at this site have been provided by the contributing artists who kindly gave me permission to show them.

Copyright and all rights therein are maintained by the artists, notwithstanding that they have offered their works here electronically. It is understood that persons copying this information will adhere to the terms and constraints invoked by each author's copyright. These works may not be reposted without the explicit permission of the copyright holder.

The fact that something has been published at Elfwood and posted on the Internet is in itself a clear message that the artist/writer wants it to be seen, and that he or she is not interested in collecting a toll each time someone takes a look at/reads it.

However, this does not mean that ordinary copyright concepts have ceased to apply - there is still someone who has the copyright to the work. Note, that Elfwood itself is never the copyright holder; it only benefits from a non-withdrawable but also non-transferable "permission to publish". Instead, it is either the original author(s) or a conventional publisher who is the copyright holder. Please respect their rights, and abide by the following natural rules.

No rights or permissions are granted for display of these works on other web sites, webchats or in other forms. Please contact Linda Bergkvist (ebonykeep@hotmail.com) for details on using his or her works.

Elfwood is not a Clipart area!

Please don't mail the any of the Elfwood Administrators regarding permissions to use copyrighted pictures at Elfwood, they cannot give you these permissions - only the artist or writer (copyright holder) can.

Finally, please, read the legal information for more copyright details.




[This message has been edited by Resident Alien (edited 10 June 2001).]

[Deathstalker]

Well I have heard from the artist and gotten things sorted out. She has denied use of the picture for my purposes, as is her right as owner/creator of the picture. As I have said before I have comissioned Adres to make a replacement picture, hopefully it will be done in the near future.

Thank you everyone for your time and understanding.

Steve (Deathstalker)



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"The Empress took your name away," said Chance.
Owen smiled coldly. "It wasn't hers to take. I'm a Deathstalker until I die. And we never forget a slight or an enemy." -Owen Deathstalker.

[Atrocities]

I'm am truly sorry to hear about this DS.

[Andrés]

Just want to let you know I replaced the offending picture with a new one I made.
I apologize with the author of that picture, Linda Bergkvist. Although I never intended to use her work without permission I should have asked where this picture came from before using it.
Although my new picture is not as good as hers, I think that being made of the same materials, it matches better with the ships and makes the whole shipset more consistent. http://se4kdy.cyberwars.com/downloads/ygath/

[Puke]

good show Lescano, I think your work is much more in spirit with the rest of the art on the shipset and in the game, while still capturing the feeling of the other artists subject matter.

[rdouglass]

Wasn't there supposed to be a new standard / technology coming out that would digitally sign / identify a pic? IIRC, it was something like a section of the image with a microscopic (0.00001 pixel) sized signature (or thumbprint or something like that).

Has anyone else heard of this or am I losing my mind (or living in "my own private Idaho").

[Jubala]

rdouglass, if you're losing your mind then so am I because I have also heard of that standard/technology.