Chris: Who made the banner?
Sith: uhm, I did...
Chris: then you're an art theif dude. I recognise that girl and she doesn't allow her stuff to be made into banners
Jon: if you got proof then show it, no offense Chris, but in the real world, that would be classed as slaunder
Jon: or what ever the word i
Jon: *is
Jon: *slander
Chris: have contacted Elandria mate, shes just said you didn't ask for permission and its copyright violation. Nuff said. Her rules are pretty freeking clear - [link]
Chris: no reuse of stock as banner and ask permission before uploading to photobucket.
Jon: well as the picture isn't in her gallery nothing can be proven, so I would forget it if I were you
Jon: and besides
Jon: they both look similar, but they are obviously two different people
Chris: lol wrong again... [link] oh look... with a link to her stock rules. Honestly...
Chris: OMG you need glasses lol
Jon: oh I didn't see
Jon: it's because they pictures I saw were in to different places
Jon: besides the fact I'm tired
Jon: and anyway, sith is not making any profit from this board
Chris: LMAO
Jon: what do you hope to gain from this anyway?
ELANDRIA: as the owner of the copyrighted material I can confirm as Chris has already stated that you have broken my terms of use. I wasn't going to say anything until the last comment about "making no profit"
ELANDRIA: My terms of use are extremely clear and you are in violation of them
ELANDRIA: I have asked Chris not to continue to discuss this with you as I have already sent DMCA cease and desist orders to both Proboards and Photobucket regarding this matter.
Jon: lol what?
Jon: I mean seriously
ELANDRIA: I think its not only rude but also extremely inconsiderate to use other peoples photography for redistribution with no credit or permission. I sincerely hope you learn your lesson.
Jon: I didn't I'm not staff
ELANDRIA: You are speaking on their behalf then or why are you getting involved?
Jon: "making no profit" means what I said it meant, no profit means no profit, the only thing we're gaining from it is having a pretty skin for the site, that's all
Jon: you could have just asked whether we could change it or something
ELANDRIA: Then use somebody elses face not mine. As mentioned you have no permission and I could take this to court if I so wished. This is NOT fair use or any other excuse you can come up with.
ELANDRIA: Why should I have to ask when you did not?
Jon: to be honest, I would be flattered that my images was used on none-profit boards, I don't see anything wrong with it,
Jon: well I like this site
Jon: I don't want it to be deleted
Jon: but excuse me for pointing out this
Jon: what if the owner of the site, found your pictured on photobucket or where ever, not knowing that they needed permission? and used it because they thought it looked good?
ELANDRIA: You have no option. I have set out Copyright Violation Cease and desist orders already. I'm not going to discuss this with you further. As for being flattered that my phtography is being stolen?
ELANDRIA: If they don't know who it belongs to they should use it. Plain and simple. Google/photobucket are NOT free stock sites.
ELANDRIA: shouldn't* use it.
Jon: I suppose, you could have just said please remove my picture or something
Jon: what does the CVC do anyway?
Jon: does it get rid of the image or the whole site?
ELANDRIA: AGAIN at the risk of repeating myself why should I have to ask when they did not?
Sith: ....ok...
Jon: they might not have known they needed permission
Sith: I'll just take it down. =/ I didn't mean to like go against any copyright form.
Jon: I wouldn't have
Sith: I didn't either. 0o
ELANDRIA: It does. From Photobucket also, and since I've bookmarked this forum I will know if you stupidly reuplaod it elsewhere and continue to use it.
Jon: *sighs* sorry Sith, I think I made that worse...
ELANDRIA: Next time ask. Its not hard.
Sith: look, I won't.
Sith: I didn't know you had to ask to use images off of yahoo/google. 0o
ELANDRIA: Its plain and simple. If you don't know where an image came from and you can't contact the owner to ask permission DON'T USE IT
Jon: I thought you did only when you're making a profit out of it
Sith: look, i took it down, you should be happy, won't reuse it, there's no need to get uptight about anything..
Sith: I mean ok, gosh, no need to bite my freakin' head off.
ELANDRIA: Since you feel OK to make me "famous" I will be making you famous also on my journal as a shining example of "taketaketake"
ELANDRIA: lol you guys have no idea.