issue., i'm sure this has been brought up dozens of times.. Options

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stealing, jocking, theft, copyright infringement.

it's all been a pretty big problem here on createblog. tons of graphics and layouts have been created using images from sites such as photobucket (from random peoples' albums), deviantart, threadless, naked&angry, artists' websites, etc. all copyrighted material. material that is not stock material. and taking complete credit for it.

and i don't really care if there is a thread already about this or if it was mentioned in another thread. because. well. i just don't feel like going through and responding with something that will never be read, bringing back a thread that is long dead, or simply watching people talk about it and not do anything.

i think that while the admin and mods are doing their little "house cleaning", they should REALLY concentrate on removing submissions that contain stolen images. because this site should not condone these things.

i also think that a field should be added to submission forms for credit giving. even if what someone used IS stock photography or otherwise free-to-use material, credit should be given. and i believe that if people were to see an entire space dedicated to giving such credit, they would tend to do it more.

this website should be fair and follow copyright rules in all areas. because i've seen plenty of people complaining about other websites "jocking" from createblog. why not stop being hypocrites and set an example for such sites?

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Exactly why optional wouldn't be a good idea. But it's basically the only thing we can do. Because I, and you, know people do make their own images, even if they didn't make the brush/texture/pattern themself. Like the design staff/official designers. They use photoshop/psp to make their images. So would they credit the site that they got the brush/whatever from?

But there is still the possibility that the person made it completely by scratch. It's a low one, but it's still a possibility.

Even if we did have the Credits option, people would still be able to put, "made completely by me", which, may or may not be true in different cases.

^ Yea some people would put made by them, but the credits option can stop some people from claiming things as their own . No one's saying that the credit field will stop everyone from using images not made by them and stuff. But it is a good start and it can stop some people too.

I also think that , like use said Janette, if they use brushes from other sites, and they want to give credit in that field they should. I don't see anything wrong with them crediting brush sites. Or any other sites that helped put it together.

The credits field doesn't mean they didn't make it . It's giving credit to their resources. So if you made the image, then you made it. But you can still give credit. No one's saying like, you can't make your own images. Its just saying that if you used something from another site then place the credit.

The goal is to help prevent stealing, and jocking. Not stop people from submitting their own creations.

ok, ur thinking/ going to add a credit section to prevent layouts using copyrighted images
on their layouts

ok what about images from large companies who make games, movies etc.
what happens if we use images from them? everything goes into that section?
i personally like that idea alot and look forward to it coming out soon


i mean all my layouts i give credit to whos image and whos brush i use
all images...

and i think that people who make their layouts and don't credit anyone should get a warning regardless if 'everything' in that layout is 'theirs'
i know what its like to have ur images stolen... and it isn't a lovely feeling...

and i've seen a few layouts who are using images from DA with out credit...