Re: Rude folks, indeed.....

KarenMarie <Kar...@home.com> wrote in message news:Yqz...@Mindspring.com...
>
> I have never done one bit of ASCII art in my life. Never tried it. But
> one day, some one sent me about 100 files on mIRC of pics. Most of them
> did not have any initials on them or any credit given to any artist.
>
> I have never claimed to have done any of them. Also, there are a few
> pics here that I really like and would like to use, and of course would
> NEVER take the credit for them or delete the artists initials.
>
> Am I allowed to use stuff from here if I leave the initials? How about
> the stuff I got on mIRC? Do I need to put a small disclaimer on what I
> use, saying that I did not create them?
>
> I know that these might sound like silly questions, but I would never
> disrespect the talent that creates some of this wonderful stuff, and
> would be majorly pissed off if someone did it to me.


Dear Karen,

    I wouldn't worry about this, if I was you. You're not going
around claiming to have made the pictures that you have which have
been colorized for IRC, putting your name on them, and sending
them to other people, in some kind of half-witted attempt to
make yourself famous (weird).

    As for copying stuff out of this newsgroup and using it, most
everybody here is flattered that you would want to keep and/or use
in some fashion anything that they have made. Most folks who make the
pix would prefer you leave their credits (usually initials) on
their picture. It's about all the notoriety they get for making
text-pix, you see. Some, like Mad Dog, aktually kill peeple who
ripp his pic and use it without his credits.

   - Mad Dog is currently serving 25 to life, for the mass murder
of somewhere between 5 and 7,347 people who he felt didn't give
him "Proper Credit". He is due for parole next month, and will
probably be released for good behavior. -

  People here probably wouldn't even care about credit, if it
weren't for so many folks that copy the pix, and then post
or play them in places, claiming that THEY did them. Since
that kind of behavior got to be commonplace, it ended up
irritating the folks who really did make the picture, and
they began to be concerned about receiving some kind of
meager credit for these text-pix, when it became apparent
that there was actually an audience out there, much
wider than the few people who liked to make asskey text
pictures, and send them back and forth to each other.

    If the only people who liked the things were the handful
here on this newsgroup that makes them, then no one would care.
We usually know who did what picture. Since they end up traveling
far and wide, it would be nice to be recognized for making them.
Rude people who plagiarize the pix spoil the small entertainment
of making and sharing them. Since the folks who like text-pictures
often know what the "are-teests" preferences are concerning
copying and editing and crediting their text-pix, it would be nice
if they, themselves, would respect those wishes. Many do. It would
be best, if these aficionados would pressure those who would
steal the stuff, themselves. After all, that's how it's done in
with most "art-forms"....


          JRO
oglesbee@
        mail.fullnet.net

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