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My DeviantArt Story
So, I know the "My DeviantArt Story" thing was supposed to be done on our actual birthday but on that particular day when I sat down at my computer I had a ton of stuff which needed my attention and my personal journal CSS happened to be broken and I had no time to fix it up to display properly (It serves me right for letting months pass by between journal entries) but I wanted to participate and I decided I would just do it "later" and then somehow it's now August 21st and it's finally "later".
My Story actually starts way back in 1999. I came home from a long day at work at my retail job to discover that some of my friends had upgraded the
Clarifying an Issue with Stock Resources
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As far as official policy
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Depending on how regularly you submit and what sort of file type you use when you do so you may or may not have n
Cyberbullying and Your Deviations
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While the actions which make up cyberbullying can vary depending on who you are talking with or what website you are on at the time, as far as we here at deviantART are concerned the act of cyberbullying involves a range of behavior from hostile and aggressive communications, to threats, sexual remarks, hate speech, ganging up on victims by making them the sub
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now i got a question, when it comes to the groups that you are claiming are vigilante.
if you have a group that does silent reporting, aka the group find a person with possible copyright infringement, one person will give a warning and the rest just silently report and find the original artwork and let the original artist know. now you have one or two renegades that decide to troll or harass the user that happen to be in the group and the user in question even after having their work removed by DA decides to get all pissed about it and instead of just blocking the user that harassed her decides to report the whole group.
would the whole group get in trouble for one idiots mistake?
also a few more if you don't mind, all involving copyright infringement.
i know DA has been very iffy about the use of Tineye as a means of identifying copyright infringment, now what if we find an image that is 200x 195 (as an example) and the artist claims that she is the original artist *we're talking like very complex work that no way in hell would be that small* and we find a result on tineye that is wallpaper size but no original artist. would DA still take that as proof that this artist isn't the original?
also "tracing" has been the biggest battle i fight with some of the more aggressive "hunters" as you would call us. they mainly are attacking those that create "line art" from official images or manga's and post them on here as a free to use line art. is that copyright infringement since it was a direct copy of the original work but they are giving it out as free to use.
now say a user post the line art up, admitting it was copied directly from the original image, is claiming no copyright and is posting it strictly for educational purposes to help other artist with clean line art to increase their skill in coloring. would that still be considered copyright infringement because it is being used for educational purposes?
i know i am one of the bigger thorns in your side since i made this account, but if you could answer these it would be greatly appreciated.
if you have a group that does silent reporting, aka the group find a person with possible copyright infringement, one person will give a warning and the rest just silently report and find the original artwork and let the original artist know. now you have one or two renegades that decide to troll or harass the user that happen to be in the group and the user in question even after having their work removed by DA decides to get all pissed about it and instead of just blocking the user that harassed her decides to report the whole group.
would the whole group get in trouble for one idiots mistake?
also a few more if you don't mind, all involving copyright infringement.
i know DA has been very iffy about the use of Tineye as a means of identifying copyright infringment, now what if we find an image that is 200x 195 (as an example) and the artist claims that she is the original artist *we're talking like very complex work that no way in hell would be that small* and we find a result on tineye that is wallpaper size but no original artist. would DA still take that as proof that this artist isn't the original?
also "tracing" has been the biggest battle i fight with some of the more aggressive "hunters" as you would call us. they mainly are attacking those that create "line art" from official images or manga's and post them on here as a free to use line art. is that copyright infringement since it was a direct copy of the original work but they are giving it out as free to use.
now say a user post the line art up, admitting it was copied directly from the original image, is claiming no copyright and is posting it strictly for educational purposes to help other artist with clean line art to increase their skill in coloring. would that still be considered copyright infringement because it is being used for educational purposes?
i know i am one of the bigger thorns in your side since i made this account, but if you could answer these it would be greatly appreciated.