Re: New twist on Re: SigZag
From Veronica Karlsson <dre...@on.spammer>
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· 2 Mar 1998 00:00 · View full thread
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Donovan wrote: > > Here's something that I'm sure wasn't said before. I've heard it before... This whole discussion has been dragged through aaa several times already. > Who says that the > pics we come up with are the original. This may be true for some micro art but as the size and complexity increases it gets less likely. > I mean, it's not like we have > unlimited characters to work with, and ASCII art has been around since > the first home computer! Longer, much longer. Text art in different forms has been around for several thousand years. http://alaike.lcc.hawaii.edu/sg/project_101/hiero.html > My snail sig may have been done by someone else > many years ago. Just because I did it from scratch doesn't mean someone > didn't make it exactly like that once before. No, and if you write a poem there's no guarantee that it has not already been written... > My point is how can we be sure we are taking credit for an original > ASCII pic, when there is no way to prove that it is the original to > begin with. So one step deeper how can we copyright them if we can't > prove that. The odds that someone did the Mona Lisa exactly the same, > every brush stroke, is as close to impossible as you can get. But this > pic... > __o > _`\<,_ --- Dave > (*)/ (*) > We can't really be sure, but I bet I'm the only person who has made this particular bike exactly like this: __ .' `. / \ o / | 8ooooooooo __________ | ``8' /.-------. \ | |` || ` ` |< `|___________________\\ |||| ) / _____________________\ ._._.'.'( / | \\ ``--' //|` \\ // `| \\ // |` . \ .d888888b. // `| .'.'\\ .d888888b. o8Y' . `Y// |` / / \\Y' . .`Y8o oY' . . . //Y8o `| .'.' dY'\\ . . .`Yo dY . . // Yb |` / / dY. \\ . . .Yb dY . . . . .// . Yb `| .'.' dY . \\ . . . . Yb oY. . . . // . Yb |` / / oY . .\\ . . . . Yo o8 . . . // . . 8b `| =.= .'.' o8 . \\ . . . 8o 8Y . . . .//__________Y8___|`_____ / / 8P . . \\.. . . Y8 8............@/__ ........ 8 .'. ..`.' 8............\@)...........8 8 . . (`-.__`--.__ d8 /. . |.. \ 8 . . . . . . . 8 8b . .(@ `--.__`--.__|.... .... | 8b. . . . . . d8 Y8 . . . `-._ `--.__|.. @ | Y8 . . . . . . . . . 8Y Yb . . . .`-._ dP |.... |. | Yb. . . . dP Yb. . . . . . `-dP \ . |... / Yb . . . . . . .dP Yo. . . . .oP `--.__`.__|__.' Yo. . . ..oP `8o. . . . .o8' | `8o. . . . .o8' `Y88booood888P' =.= `Y88boooood888P' """""" """"""" Would this diddle mean enough difference to declare it to be a totally different picture? Where do you draw the line? __ .' `. / \ o / | 8ooooooooo __________ | ``8' /.-------. \ | |` || ` ` |< `|___________________\\ |||| ) / _____________________\ ._._.'.'( / | \\ ``--' //|` \\ // `| \\ // |` . \ .d888888b. // `| .'.'\\ .d888888b. o8Y' | `Y// |` / / \\Y' | .`Y8o oY' . | . //Y8o `| .'.' dY'\\ . | /`Yo dY \ | // Yb |` / / dY. \\ | / .Yb dY`. \ . | .// . Yb `| .'.' dY `. \\ . | . / / Yb oY. `. \ | // .' Yb |` / / oY-. `.\\ | / .' .-Yo o8 `-. ` \ | // .' _.-'8b `| =.= .'.' o8 `-. \\ | / / .-' 8o 8Y`-._ `-. \ |//__________Y8___|`_____ / / 8P`-._ `-. \\|/.'-' _.-'Y8 8------------@/__--------- 8 .'. ..`.' 8------------\@)----------.8 8 _.-' . (`-.__`--.__ d8 /. . |.. \ 8 .-'.' / | \ `. `--._ 8 8b-' .-' /(@ `--.__`--.__|.... .... | 8b.--' .'.'/ | \`.`. d8 Y8 .-' .'/ `-._ `--.__|.. @ | Y8 .' / / . | . \ \ `. 8Y Yb .' / | \`-._ dP |.... |. | Yb.' / / | \ `. `dP Yb.' / . | . \ `-dP \ . |... / Yb .' / . | . \ \dP Yo. / | \ .oP `--.__`.__|__.' Yo. / | \.oP `8o. . | . .o8' | `8o. . | . .o8' `Y88booood888P' =.= `Y88boooood888P' """""" """"""" > who's to say I didn't draw this exactly the same way ten years ago. I > mean it's a total of 28 characters square, it's a popular sport, and > it's easy to make. > > Not to say that what he wants to do is right, but is it legally wrong? I > have not done many ASCII drawings, but I know for a fact all the small > ones that I have done...like most of you...the odds that someone did > them before me is VERY GREAT! > > I'm not sure a court would enjoy the odds on this argument. > mmmm.... like I said above - where do you draw the line? > Just a new thought > No, not new at all.... ;) > Donovan > > BTW, putting initials on your art would increse the odds that it is > different from anything before. *S* I found this new thing: http://come.to/ and tried my initials on it: http://come.to/vk It was taken, and I didn't think much more about it, until later the same day, when I saw the guy who "took it" in another newsgroup... (btw, I got myself the new URL http://come.to/veronica ) > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > ______ > Poems By Donovan - Home of DA QUIZ! and the / ___ \ > Famous Secret Link Game. | / ,.\ |O O > Conquer the Secret Link and win an award | | \d/ | \__/ > for your homepage! |__\_____/-(..) > http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/6558/ _/_____________/ dwb Talking of similarities, here's one of Hayley's sigs: _e-e_ Hayley Jane Wakenshaw _e-e_ _(-._.-)_ "Dosser Extraordinaire" _(-._.-)_ .-( `---' )-. **Flump's Ascii Collection**: .-( `---' )-. __\ \\\___/// /__ www.xs4all.nl/~klr __\ \\\___/// /__ '-._.'/M\ /M\`._,-` '-._.'/M\ /M\`._,-` "I can never enjoy Sundays, because in the back of my mind I always know I have to go to school the next day." - Calvin & Hobbes With two frogs, just like mine. Did I do something bad to her copyright, or she to mine? Or did somebody else have the same idea ten years ago? Where do you draw the line? But I agree with Joris, this guy has gone too far: : -- : ##, : ,\, # : |/ ? : | ~ )\ : /__/\ \____ Luiz Orsato : / \_/ \ lor...@nutecnet.com.br : / <_ ____,_ \ Porto Alegre - RS - Brasil : --/___/_____ \--------------------------- : \/| What a creeeeep! He looks just like me if I'd wear fake hairs. / `, ___ # |/ ? | ^ )\ /__/\ \____ ,- / \_/ \ |/| / < _____ _> \ -|.|--/___/ ,___/___\--------- '-' |\/ b'ger -- _ _ __ ___.--'_`. __ __ _ .'_`--.___ __ ( _`.'. - 'o` ) \ \ / /__ _ _ ___ _ _ (_)__ __ _ ( 'o` - .`.'_ ) _\.'_' _.-' \ V / -_) '_/ _ \ ' \| / _/ _` | `-._ `_`./_ ( \`. ) //\` \_/\___|_| \___/_||_|_\__\__,_| '/\\ ( .'/ ) \_`-'`---'\\__, ,__//`---'`-'_/ \` `-\ uggc://jjj.yhqq.yhgu.fr/hfref/ix/ /-' '/ ` _____________________ r93...@fz.yhgu.fr ____________________ ' LIKE MY SIG? GO HERE: http://www.surfplaza.com/figlet/
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