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This is something I shouldn't have to even come up and discuss with some of you, but apparently it needs to be discussed.

Within the recent past, I've had found people on message boards and websites and even here using my artwork without my expressed permission. I won't name any names now because I came out and confronted the various individuals. Chris can remember one guy I believe on Godzilla Palace that took one of my banners off of my site, edited it, and then used it on his site without my permission...and even stupidly posted it on the board to which I found out about it and called him down for it in front of the mods and the admins. And they backed me up on it too.

Apparently, something similar has happened here on DA. When I changed my avatar to Pyrothraxus' Eye, and even posted the original speed paint drawing, apparently, that got someone's attention and they decided to download the image, shrink it and then use it as an avatar without my permission. I realize that on DA, there's a lot of people who will state "Do not use without artist's permission' on their deviation when they post something like stock footage and stuff for photo manipulation, but you know, I shouldn't have to say something like that on my art for something I didn't mean to be taken off and used. I shouldn't have to say 'you need my permission to use it', you asking my permission should be the FIRST thing that comes into your mind when you want to use my artwork.

You've seen Donny's photomanipulation of Kiryuu, well some of you have, and wondered if I given my permission, well, I did. He asked me ahead of time. I asked Jeff if I could color one of his deviations ahead of time as well.

The point is, even if I DON'T state 'Ask permission before you use' you should go ahead and ask permission anyways. Because I shouldn't HAVE TO state 'ask permission' on my deviation. Since the image was created by me, asking permission to use something that was created by me should be something you need to do before you use my art. Mostly because well...I love it when people come up and say, 'hey that's cool can I use it for a site I'm building?' Because generally I'll say yes and add 'as long as you also state where you got it and link it to my DA gallery'. Because I love ADVERTISEMENT. I do. I love advertisement. I love it when something I did gets advertised on other sites because it brings in more people to this site see more of my stuff. And I wanna here who's advertising my artwork on what site. If you use one of my avatars that I actually make, state it in every journal on your DA page where you got it from. Because I want people to come and see where and then look at the other cool stuff I make. But that's what I ask.

Ask permission! Whether I state you should or not. If I don't state it, ask anyway, because it's the RIGHT thing to do and it shows you respect the artist who created that thing you liked and wanted to keep. If you're gonna download my stuff, that's fine. But if you upload it and show it to a site, please link my site to that board or site stating where you got it from so that other people can see my DA page and then see my other work.

If you haven't seen this, go see it...



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