Must...Not...Laugh...
...at...stupidity...overload...
*snrk*
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/46286615/?qo=9&q=by%3Adarkspeeds&qh=sort%3Atime+-in%3Ascraps
Note the Creative Commons Licence.
I'm sorry Elson, you FAIL. HARD. MULTIPLE TIMES!
He's giving the keys of the chicken coop to any idiot fox that happens to be standing around.
The reason I don't use the Creative Commons thing is that even WITH it in place, you're not freakin' stopping anyone from making you look like an idiot. The entire process is because DA ain't going to put up with your lawyers - it's there so you can "feel safe". All that creative commons stuff is there to say "we don't care about your work, nor about your feelings, just if you use it, you have no right to sue us if something goes wrong".
Safety first - as an artist look into copyrighting your work YOURSELF.
It'll cost a small fortune if you have multiple characters, like I do, BUT it ensures that incidents like Foxata and Darkspeeds don't damned well happen.
Relying on DA to provide you with a service that "protects" you as an artist is pushing the bar a little high. From what I've learned from many of the mods, they won't give a TURKEY if your work is stolen on their watch. If it's under one of these licenses, and I quote from a recent note from RealitySquared whereupon I questioned what would be the outcome of work stolen whilst under this license:
"You'd have no right whatsoever to complain. It'd be your own fault for not reading the license correctly and/or fully."
This from a mod?
Yeah, it says a lot about them wanting to fully "cover their asses" so no lawyers come a'knocking. The majority of people use this Creative Commons thing like candy, and just because Elson does it, his kids do it too, not fully comprehending it's not cool to follow the sheep herd especially when you don't understand how this bullshit "license" works.
People as a whole don't give credit unless caught. That's one thing I've learned as an artist. If you hand over your art with the rule of "you're free to share this", chances are someone out there WILL make a buck out of it without your knowledge.
Now what I'd like to see is his art being sold on Ebay.
Like the unfortunates - LunaYoshi, Jeff Axer, Anime, JaxxFox, etc.
Many can't do shit all about these thefts, because hell, the second it went online with a creative commons license, Ebay didn't give a royal fuck. Unless they are provided with copies of personal records of copyright/trademarking and not some "cover your ass with us online" licensing, you're screwed - out of your hard work, out of your art and what is rightfully your hard-earned moolah.
I do feel some sense of pity for this poor idiot.
You would think after suffering multiple art thefts (YES, THIS IS TRUE - he has been thieved out of his, ugh, "hard work" close to thirty times, all of them documented by myself and a few others - if you would like a hint as to who performed these thefts, look no further than Kimiko-Lynx and White-Shark, who, between them, stole eighteen of the thirty-odd pieces from Elson), he would wise the fuck up and actually concentrate on not looking like an internet freebie by slapping "hey you can distribute this!!1!11" on every last one of his bloody DA Gallery pieces.
Art thieves piss me off. Idiots like Elson piss me off even more.
But then again, for one being the epitome of fucking stupidity, one would more point and shake their heads at him and laugh themselves stupid.
I opt for the latter.
*snrk*
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/46286615/?qo=9&q=by%3Adarkspeeds&qh=sort%3Atime+-in%3Ascraps
Note the Creative Commons Licence.
I'm sorry Elson, you FAIL. HARD. MULTIPLE TIMES!
He's giving the keys of the chicken coop to any idiot fox that happens to be standing around.
The reason I don't use the Creative Commons thing is that even WITH it in place, you're not freakin' stopping anyone from making you look like an idiot. The entire process is because DA ain't going to put up with your lawyers - it's there so you can "feel safe". All that creative commons stuff is there to say "we don't care about your work, nor about your feelings, just if you use it, you have no right to sue us if something goes wrong".
Safety first - as an artist look into copyrighting your work YOURSELF.
It'll cost a small fortune if you have multiple characters, like I do, BUT it ensures that incidents like Foxata and Darkspeeds don't damned well happen.
Relying on DA to provide you with a service that "protects" you as an artist is pushing the bar a little high. From what I've learned from many of the mods, they won't give a TURKEY if your work is stolen on their watch. If it's under one of these licenses, and I quote from a recent note from RealitySquared whereupon I questioned what would be the outcome of work stolen whilst under this license:
"You'd have no right whatsoever to complain. It'd be your own fault for not reading the license correctly and/or fully."
This from a mod?
Yeah, it says a lot about them wanting to fully "cover their asses" so no lawyers come a'knocking. The majority of people use this Creative Commons thing like candy, and just because Elson does it, his kids do it too, not fully comprehending it's not cool to follow the sheep herd especially when you don't understand how this bullshit "license" works.
People as a whole don't give credit unless caught. That's one thing I've learned as an artist. If you hand over your art with the rule of "you're free to share this", chances are someone out there WILL make a buck out of it without your knowledge.
Now what I'd like to see is his art being sold on Ebay.
Like the unfortunates - LunaYoshi, Jeff Axer, Anime, JaxxFox, etc.
Many can't do shit all about these thefts, because hell, the second it went online with a creative commons license, Ebay didn't give a royal fuck. Unless they are provided with copies of personal records of copyright/trademarking and not some "cover your ass with us online" licensing, you're screwed - out of your hard work, out of your art and what is rightfully your hard-earned moolah.
I do feel some sense of pity for this poor idiot.
You would think after suffering multiple art thefts (YES, THIS IS TRUE - he has been thieved out of his, ugh, "hard work" close to thirty times, all of them documented by myself and a few others - if you would like a hint as to who performed these thefts, look no further than Kimiko-Lynx and White-Shark, who, between them, stole eighteen of the thirty-odd pieces from Elson), he would wise the fuck up and actually concentrate on not looking like an internet freebie by slapping "hey you can distribute this!!1!11" on every last one of his bloody DA Gallery pieces.
Art thieves piss me off. Idiots like Elson piss me off even more.
But then again, for one being the epitome of fucking stupidity, one would more point and shake their heads at him and laugh themselves stupid.
I opt for the latter.