If you see someone on LJ using your icon without credit, what do you do? Do you want people to credit you in their keywords when they use your icons
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methinks if it's really bugging you (and that's fine if it does; it's something you created, after all), you can address the issue. if she doesn't have anything by any of her icons though, then it seems she just likes collecting things
It depends how much work went into the icon (whether it's your own original art, whether you animated it in some impressive way, etc...)
Personally I have never understood the whole 'credit my icons' thing, most of the time it just seems audacious and stupid ... after all you're not giving credit to the photographer from Getty who TOOK the image in the first place, or the artist who drew the art ... exactly what about cropping something to 100 x 100 gives you the right to supersede of ownership of the original artist and demand credit?
(clarification: when I say 'you' ... I mean icon makers in general ^O^ not you specifically)
Very, very true, and a good point. I wouldn't demand it, but having the iconmaker's username in the keywords is more of a pointer back to their journal if someone really likes the icon.
That makes it sound like advertising. Eh. It's totally not a legal thing, but you're definitely right on the lack of the original photographer/artist credit.
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Personally I have never understood the whole 'credit my icons' thing, most of the time it just seems audacious and stupid ... after all you're not giving credit to the photographer from Getty who TOOK the image in the first place, or the artist who drew the art ... exactly what about cropping something to 100 x 100 gives you the right to supersede of ownership of the original artist and demand credit?
(clarification: when I say 'you' ... I mean icon makers in general ^O^ not you specifically)
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But in the end you don't own it. Its for respect sake's, not anything legal.
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That makes it sound like advertising. Eh. It's totally not a legal thing, but you're definitely right on the lack of the original photographer/artist credit.
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