Stolen Material, V.1 Options

[*IVIike*]

I have noticed a lot of stolen material getting through the acception process. I don't know who is incharge of it now, but when Holly and Toya were doing it it was a lot stricter and more reviewed. Today I saw 2 or 3 [i can't remember] layouts go through that were either totally jocked or had stolen codes. I just wanted to bring this to the staff's attention to watch out for jocked material before the layouts are accepted becuase i know it's really hard for the designers when we can't remove them. For example Amanda [blaqheatedstar] had 2 things put on today that were jocked from her and one is still currently up there. Also if people need help with coding there are many people on here including myself who will help you so instead of stealing codes ask for help.

thats it

-Mike

[*Duchess of Dork*]

I think there is a huge copyright issue here at CB. Hopefully CB can correct it soon.

Unfortunately, I don't think that there is a way to ever completely fix the copyright issues. I think folks are trying to catch everyone, but particularly in the graphics queue, it's insane how many submissions are there. I think overall the copyrighted material is being caught more often than it used to.

It's unfortunate though, that people can be so dishonest.

Everyone is allowed to accept and reject layouts (as already pointed out). Well everyone on a design staff position. When you or anyone else sees them PM anyone on design staff (xanga, lj, myspace, design, etc) or hit the "Report to moderator" button, and make sure you tell us it was stolen and possibly a link to the coding or layout it was stolen from and we will remove them immediately.

So yea. :]

Toya has summed it up best. While Feedback on this is good, it's really important to PM/report stolen layouts immediately when you see them. That way a moderator can fix the problem right away and be on the look-out for those particular submitters.

[Señorita Semi-Au...]

Unfortunately, I don't think that there is a way to ever completely fix the copyright issues. I think folks are trying to catch everyone, but particularly in the graphics queue, it's insane how many submissions are there. I think overall the copyrighted material is being caught more often than it used to.

It's unfortunate though, that people can be so dishonest.

It's not only the more obvious copyrighted pieces (say from DA) but it's also work like photographs of celebrities. We forget that those are owned by photographers as well. I know that this site wants to provide graphics people like... but, I personally have a small problem against it.

(I should be talking, I'm sporting an image that is copyrighted by someone else. )