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wham bam, the arts admin has yanked all my Quinlan Vos icons for being plagiarisms.  

The Helpdesk is backlogged, so they are gone for now, but I will have you who saw them know,  I am respectfully asking them to reinstate the five that have been manipulated the most obviously.  

Photomanip, like fanfiction, is necessarily a gray area when it comes to profit and provenance.  An artist who does a new penciling of Jan Duursema's pose of our hero is doing similar, but with opposite means.  My cutting and pasting of the same heroes, switching them about and pulling their pixels,  must be blatant enough to satisfy a viewer that it is now something new.  And I steadfastly restrict the availability with the deviant management tool, so they cannot be sold for profit.  

Sometimes, that means deliberately doing a slipshod job, so the thing shouts 'manip' and 'fake'.  Mainly, that saves energy preemptively on defense of their non-originality. If I am too neat, folk will think Jan did the background, or the pose, herself, unless I post the original side by side with it, which I mustn't, of course.

Dadbladdit, I'm going to have to remember how to draw all by myself if this keeps up. My sketches, as you can tell by the lonely exemplars here, are cthonic and betray my pitiful short attention span. :eye:  Ferglutz.
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They are not budging. copy:

Help response on Help Desk case #148345 # Helper: $realitysquared
Date: Aug 6, 2006, 11:13 AM According to the logs your gallery contained works which made use of copyrighted material which prompted action by the staff. Your deviantART submissions must consist entirely of your own work and must not include works from other sources regardless of how much you may attempt to manipulate them.

FAQ #8: What does deviantART consider to be Art Theft? and FAQ #306: I credited the original owner on my deviation- why did it get deleted by the staff? will provide you with additional information.

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Daniel (realitysquared)
Copyright & Etiquette Administration Director,
Community Development Division,
deviantART Inc.


Do you KNOW what this MEANS????? :movingon:

It means that I am either going to have to change my brains, or post elsewhere, or just go ahead and post and quit minding if things suddenly are gone. If they remove works again, I may get booted off or deleted or whatever, but hells, it's been fun here.

Let's hope I can get my originality mojo in gear. Pushing envelopes on purpose is not my intention at all. All I want to do is illustrate my baby ficcies. :siamese: