Art, Graphics, and Theft
I've kept this journal for over fifteen years. Seriously! I've made graphics on here since 2006 (if you're reading this on DreamWidth, it's still the same journal/blog, so it still counts).
I'd have said this place has quieted considerably in the last decade. Why, in the past, say, seven years or so, you can see tumbleweeds blow through my comment section.
So that's why it's really weird to see my graphics turning up on other people's blogs and Facebook groups, sometimes with credit, mostly without.
Because I know you were here, and you didn't comment. You didn't praise my work you liked enough to steal for your own purposes, you didn't even comment the entry, and you certainly didn't ask.
I don't make graphics for people to praise them (although it'd be nice) but I really don't make them for you to steal them without so much as even credit. I make them for me and this blog.
The graphics are literally labors of love. I make them because I love making them.
I realize this is the internet. I realize this blog has survived several eras of the internet. I've tried my best to credit when I use an image but I'm imperfect too (SIDE NOTE! IF YOU RECOGNIZE YOUR GRAPHIC HERE AND IT'S EITHER NOT CREDITED OR YOU DON'T SHARE, PLEASE TELL ME! I will either credit or remove it at once!).
But the fact this blog has literally been a ghost town while people came in just to steal my work (and it IS work) pisses me off mightily. A clarification is in order.
YOU DO NOT HAVE MY PERMISSION TO USE ANY OF MY
GRAPHICS.IF YOU WANT TO USE A GRAPHIC, CONTACT ME IN
THE COMMENTS (or elsewhere) POLITELY AND IF I APPROVE OF
YOUR USAGE, I WILL TELL YOU EXPLICITLY.
ANYONE USING MY GRAPHICS
WITHOUT MY PERMISSION
WILL BE SUBJECT TO MY PURSUING ACTION.
WALL OF GRAPHICS THIEVES SHAME HERE.
JUST STOP BEING THOUGHTLESS IS ALL I ASK.
I'd have said this place has quieted considerably in the last decade. Why, in the past, say, seven years or so, you can see tumbleweeds blow through my comment section.
So that's why it's really weird to see my graphics turning up on other people's blogs and Facebook groups, sometimes with credit, mostly without.
Because I know you were here, and you didn't comment. You didn't praise my work you liked enough to steal for your own purposes, you didn't even comment the entry, and you certainly didn't ask.
I don't make graphics for people to praise them (although it'd be nice) but I really don't make them for you to steal them without so much as even credit. I make them for me and this blog.
The graphics are literally labors of love. I make them because I love making them.
I realize this is the internet. I realize this blog has survived several eras of the internet. I've tried my best to credit when I use an image but I'm imperfect too (SIDE NOTE! IF YOU RECOGNIZE YOUR GRAPHIC HERE AND IT'S EITHER NOT CREDITED OR YOU DON'T SHARE, PLEASE TELL ME! I will either credit or remove it at once!).
But the fact this blog has literally been a ghost town while people came in just to steal my work (and it IS work) pisses me off mightily. A clarification is in order.
YOU DO NOT HAVE MY PERMISSION TO USE ANY OF MY
GRAPHICS.IF YOU WANT TO USE A GRAPHIC, CONTACT ME IN
THE COMMENTS (or elsewhere) POLITELY AND IF I APPROVE OF
YOUR USAGE, I WILL TELL YOU EXPLICITLY.
ANYONE USING MY GRAPHICS
WITHOUT MY PERMISSION
WILL BE SUBJECT TO MY PURSUING ACTION.
WALL OF GRAPHICS THIEVES SHAME HERE.
JUST STOP BEING THOUGHTLESS IS ALL I ASK.