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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 23 Feb 1995.
Re: Talk: Ripping off Artwork: A discussion

Re: Talk: Ripping off Artwork: A discussion

In article <3i8glj$2l...@uhost1.servtech.com> Brian Heath <hea...@cyber1.servtech.com> writes:

| >  >I dunno. I rather like seeing something of mine being used by someone else.
| >  ditto.  not getting credit doesn't bother me much.
| 
| I disagree--- maybe it's coming from an honors program in college -- but I'm anal about 
| crediting someone when I lift their ASCII art from something they did .... I put a simple 
| "courtesy..." next to the artwork....

This is only fair.

I understand my sig art appeared on this group, uncredited.

A friend's sig art appeared on this group - with a copyright
attached saying it belonged to the poster WHEN MY FRIEND
DREW IT HIMSELF!

Grr.  That makes me angry.
--
             PGP key & stuff: http://cswww2.essex.ac.uk/Web/mossap.html
     |\   /|           ------------------------------------------------
    /| \_/_|           Adam D. Moss                  mos...@essex.ac.uk
__--|\_/   _\          ------------------------------------------------
    /_    (o \___o      "A smartass once accused me of being subtle. I
   /_      ----= /     decked him with a short right over the heart and
    /__  \ -----'         an elbow in the trachea." - Harlan Ellison
       \ //            ------------------------------------------------
      _/           And the men looked up in wonder
 __/_/               And the hounds ran back to hide
/_-/                   For the fox had changed to the Devil himself
                         Where he stood on the other side

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From: mos...@sunlab43.essex.ac.uk (Moss A D)
Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
Subject: Re: Talk: Ripping off Artwork: A discussion
Date: 23 Feb 1995 15:06:41 GMT
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In-reply-to: Brian Heath's message of 19 Feb 1995 22:28:03 GMT
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