Deviant Art

**Kaniaz** · 01-28-2004 06:48 PM

I think you're fine. There's a legal document floating around saying you can use stuff if-it-abides-to-all-these-complicated-guidlines. It's called "Fair use", or something. Oh well, here's the extract:

The \"fair use\" exemption to (U.S.) copyright law was created to allow things such as commentary, parody, news reporting, research and education about copyrighted works without the permission of the author. That's important so that copyright law doesn't block your freedom to express your own works -- only the ability to express other people's. Intent, and damage to the commercial value of the work are important considerations. Are you reproducing an article from the New York Times because you needed to in order to criticise the quality of the New York Times, or because you couldn't find time to write your own story, or didn't want your readers to have to register at the New York Times web site? The first is probably fair use, the others probably aren't. *

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**nerve** · 01-28-2004 07:25 PM

Originally posted by icedawg+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(icedawg)</div>

<!--QuoteBegin-Paperdoll EP

HA! muffins for Aphius. <33 oh! and Lowercase too. * nod nod*

and thank you Lost Soul and Artelis

(wow, this must be embarrassing for you). umm.. you forgot me.

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first of all, you like cupcakes. no muffins for you. second, you said it looked like a backwards "y"

**nerve** · 01-28-2004 08:14 PM

Originally posted by Aphius+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Aphius)</div>

Speaking of DA check out the disclaimer i never noticed at the bottom of the smilies page. *
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NOTE: Emoticons found at or in use by deviantART are not freely available for use by other websites. If you would like to use these emoticons or any of the others found at deviantART, you must contact the creator of each emoticon desired to obtain permission for use. Failure to obtain permission for off-site use of these emoticons represents a cause of legal action against you for each of the artists whose copyrights have been infringed upon.

It makes you wonder about how we use them here all the time.

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pfft. screw them. I'll make my own damn emoticons. er just keep using thiers...

**Kaniaz** · 01-28-2004 09:32 PM

Oh, they said websites. This is a forum. Okay, so technically it's a website. But who cares?

**Artelis** · 01-29-2004 01:53 AM

Originally posted by Kaniaz
Oh, they said websites. This is a forum. Okay, so technically it's a website. But who cares?

Yeah, it is on the World Wide Web is it not?

**icedawg** · 01-29-2004 03:42 AM

Originally posted by Paperdoll EP
first of all, you like cupcakes. no muffins for you. second, you said it looked like a backwards \"y\"

(thinks quickly) i thought you were making a subtle, yet profound, statement on the contrast between 'y'outh and old age, and how the younger are completely at the mercy (thus trapped) of the older. you're telling me i was wrong? pfft. YOU'RE WRONG!