Is extracting characters and such from wallpapers..., ...stealing? |
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 Jul 19 2007, 07:04 PM
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 宇宙人です。  Group: Member Posts: 51 Joined: Feb 2006 Member No: 381,062  |
I personally think that extracting a character and such from wallpapers made by other people to make layouts and skins, is in fact stealing (Especially anime/game wallpapers;; Wow. Run-on sentence). Recently, I was dragged into this 'disagreement' with some friends on an AIM Chat. Surprisingly, only two people (me included) thought that it is stealing.
So the question is, What do you think? ((I feel like there is no absolute, right answer to this.)) |
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Jul 19 2007, 07:06 PM
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 ;) Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 9,573 Joined: Feb 2005 Member No: 99,124 |
I think it's stealing if you take the image directly from someone's personal page or server but if it's like from a stock photos site or a search engine then no.
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Jul 19 2007, 07:09 PM
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宇宙人です。 Group: Member Posts: 51 Joined: Feb 2006 Member No: 381,062 |
Yeah, but I mean like wallpapers from Minitokyo and such.
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Jul 19 2007, 07:11 PM
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;) Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 9,573 Joined: Feb 2005 Member No: 99,124 |
^Well in that case, I guess you could call it stealing.
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Jul 19 2007, 07:13 PM
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 What the fack. Group: Official Member Posts: 6,164 Joined: Mar 2004 Member No: 8,519 |
Yeah, I'd consider it stealing.
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Jul 19 2007, 07:16 PM
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宇宙人です。 Group: Member Posts: 51 Joined: Feb 2006 Member No: 381,062 |
Hmn. At least a few people agree with me =]
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| *steve330* |
Jul 19 2007, 07:20 PM
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BUT, what if you run into the image that's on a website via a google image search or something?
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Jul 19 2007, 07:23 PM
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宇宙人です。 Group: Member Posts: 51 Joined: Feb 2006 Member No: 381,062 |
QUOTE(steve330 @ Jul 19 2007, 05:20 PM)  BUT, what if you run into the image that's on a website via a google image search or something? =/ Can't you usually tell if someone made the wallpaper or not? Unless you're talking about regular images... I dunno about that. =/ Depends on the source I guess. |
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Jul 19 2007, 07:23 PM
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 Naomi loves you. Y'all may call me NaNa Group: Official Designer Posts: 2,925 Joined: Jun 2006 Member No: 427,774 |
Yes it's stealing because you didn't get the persons permission or didn't credit them.
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| *steve330* |
Jul 19 2007, 07:26 PM
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Nah I'm not talking about complete wallpapers. Just images.
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Jul 19 2007, 07:30 PM
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宇宙人です。 Group: Member Posts: 51 Joined: Feb 2006 Member No: 381,062 |
QUOTE(steve330 @ Jul 19 2007, 05:26 PM) Nah I'm not talking about complete wallpapers. Just images. Again, I guess it depends. Like if the image you found was artwork that belongs to someone, and they don't want the artwork to be edited, then taking that image and editing it is a no-no. However, no one ever considers that and just snatches the image anyway =/ |
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Jul 19 2007, 10:44 PM
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 Hi, Im Brook. Group: Member Posts: 1,774 Joined: Mar 2007 Member No: 508,383 |
I dont think its stealing. You could probably make the same thing yourself if you took time anyway, or find the same pictures on the internet. Its just a matter of time before you get them, why not get it when you see that someone has a cool picture/wallpaper/advitar.
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