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	yubsie 2005-09-06 03:58 pm UTC (link)
	The giant signature pictures at that forum are rather irritating. :p (Reply to this)

	krazycat 2005-09-06 04:46 pm UTC (link)
	Damn, there's a lot of OMG UR JUST JELUS in that forum. (Reply to this)

	jaseroque 2005-09-06 05:28 pm UTC (link)
	My brain won't stop saying "well, if you are going to deal with Britney Spears fans..." (the end of that sentence being "you are going to have to deal with the stupid", not "you will be ripped off". Though apparently the latter is true as well.) My icon would like to make the disclaimer that my fandom is not Britney Spears, as hideously embarassing as that would indeed be. (Reply to this)

keri
2005-09-06 06:20 pm UTC (link)

pssh. for some reason, I want to side with the idiot on the BS forum. except that he's totally dumb. but...inxsomniax DID put her art online. and any idiot can have access to it. I don't really see anything wrong with using the art for a blend. BUT. that idiot SHOULD have said at the outset "I'm using inxsomniax's art, because it's gorgeous and blends so well and I suck rocks when it comes to doing this kind of art on my own. Go see the rest of her stuff here."
and if she complained, then by all rights, he would have been obligated to take it down or paste more disclaimers everywhere. and that DEFINITELY shouldn't've been used to make him THEblender, when it wasn't really his work. he SAID it was 'accidental' that it came out so nicely. he just set the image to overlay and was all 'that looks good.'

so I'm not agreeing with him. but I'm not feeling sorry for inxsomniax, because she should've known that this would happen eventually, and getting her panties into a twist won't make much of a difference. she should contact the guy directly, instead of being all agressive in her journal, where he probably won't see it.

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radiotrash
2005-09-07 04:22 am UTC (link)

Well I dunno, so if no one wants their art stolen they should pull it off the net? Because we can't count on people not to be stupid? But then all the pretties that I look at and all the friends I made through art would be gone. D:

Of course I'm not a digital artist but I wouldn't want to draw, ink, and color a picture, be proud of it and have some idiot use it for an image blend on a Britney Spears fansite/board. :F

The least he can do is credit her, especially when it's been pointed out to him. I don't see how it being a background or not really changes the fact that she made it and he should credit her for it.

I do agree about contacting him privately though. I just don't want their to be a mass art exodus and have everyone pulling their art (it's already happend with one or two artists I liked.)

Hmm, this is a long comment.

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	xero_sky 2005-09-06 06:50 pm UTC (link)
	I tried to read, but the sheer volume of huge, overly-manipulated Britney pix on that site frightened me away. (Reply to this)

	Hmmm enoh 2005-09-07 12:52 am UTC (link)
	What do you reckon would happen if I pointed out that 'Hybrid Genesis' is the name of an online comic? A shonen ai online comic in fact. With gay angels. Which updates veeery slowly. Do you reckon that all the genres of wank would combine to form a super wank. (Reply to this)

	felinephoenix 2005-09-07 12:52 am UTC (link)
	I'm kind of confused by the last bit, in the Britney Spears forum. So, this guy took inxsomniax's blends and claimed they were his? Is that what's going on? On a related note, I never bothered to look around much at Hybrid Genesis. I think I'll go correct that mistake. (Reply to this)(Thread)

sluggirl
2005-09-07 07:22 am UTC (link)

Guy takes Thia's art and uses it in a blend. When he's called on it, he says that it was just some background he'd found somewhere, not on Thia's site, and since nobody credits for anything anyway, he shouldn't have to either.
A couple of people are like "Uh, no, you still need to credit."
Everyone else is like "omg stfu you're just jealous of his amazing ability!" for like eighteen million pages.
That's pretty much it.

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	adora_spintriae 2005-09-07 09:16 am UTC (link)
	The filters! My eyes! They burn! claws (Reply to this)

	sashenka 2005-09-09 05:27 am UTC (link)
	Arguably, it DOES kinda look like a backrouns and not a finished piece... how could he do this with your BEAUTIFUL artwork?! It's like cutting up the Mona Lisa and painting somethin around it x_x and saying it was only a texture Um... yes... then... no comment. (Reply to this)