Reporting Rips: READ THIS!!!
Policy clarification
Monday, June 12, 2006 by Frogboy | Discussion: Permissions
There has been some question with regards to users posting about potential rips.
WinCustomize.com supports users reporting violations of other people's copyrights. The forum "Permissions" (general->permissions) exists to that purpose (we are working on a new forum layout that will make this easier).
There was confusion in this thread:
https://www.wincustomize.com/forums.aspx?ForumID=144&AID=119968Here's the deal:
WinCustomize allows FAN art. This isn't open to debate. If someone wants to upload a Superman wallpaper that they made, that's fine. If they want to submit an X-men wallpaper that is fine. If there is an issue with it, Marvel, Warner, whoever will let us know. However, in "real life" there are thousands of fan sites that post the same thing. WinCustomize does not exist in a vacuum.
We allow fan art because no one will be "confused" or "misled" by what the fan art is about. There is no confusion over the ultimate owner of the trademarks or trade dresses involved.
Ripping, however, is something different. No individual skinner or icon artist has the fame or distribution in which a "casual user" would recognize their work as opposed to being the work of someone else who uploads it or uses it in their product.
WinCustomize takes copyright and trademark rights very seriously. So if someone sees a product, service, website, skin, or theme that is making use of another individual's work that they don't think they have permisison, you should feel free to post it here to draw attention to it.
In the past we have seen our own content made use without our permission. We have seen Paul Boyer's icons used without permission. We have seen our own skins used without permission. So it is clearly a problem and as a community we should work together.
I realize there are some people who have much more stringent definitions of what copyright protection means and I realize there are those who have much looser views on what copyright means. This is not the place to debate that. We have struck a middle ground (so no one will be quite happy).
Hopefully this clears up confusion.
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Reply #22 Thursday, June 15, 2006 12:24 PM
Sorry for the delayed reply, I have been a bit busy...
Take Care,
Z.
Reply #25 Sunday, June 18, 2006 2:11 PM
| This bootskin is using Adni's Vista-1 wall No permission implied or included |
and it's gone ...
Reply #27 Monday, June 19, 2006 3:51 AM
Reply #28 Wednesday, June 21, 2006 5:38 AM
Reply #29 Monday, June 26, 2006 7:02 AM
Reply #30 Monday, July 24, 2006 11:51 PM
| Ripping, however, is something different. No individual skinner or icon artist has the fame or distribution in which a "casual user" would recognize their work as opposed to being the work of someone else who uploads it or uses it in their product. |
I just saw this wall in the WC Gallery by battistaar:
https://www.wincustomize.com/ViewSkin.aspx?SID=1&SkinID=27949&LibID=8">Link
You would think that if you were going to try to pass off a wallpaper as your own that you wouldnt pick a famous artist like Luis Rojo - that wall that battistaar uploaded is nothing more than an exact copy of Luis Rojo's " Dreams Night Of The angel " He even left Rojo's signiture on it.
Luis Rojo:
http://www.jormungand.de/royo/dreams/QMan_LR_Dreams_059_Night_%20of_the_Angel.jpg
Reply #31 Tuesday, July 25, 2006 12:57 AM
I have a lot of Royo's stuff....this one must'a slipped by me....I would have recognised his style, even if I didn't recognise the work...
Fixed, btw, thanks, Karen...
Reply #32 Tuesday, July 25, 2006 3:13 AM
| He even left Rojo's signiture on it. |
lol..., that's kind of stupid
Reply #33 Tuesday, July 25, 2006 6:53 AM
| Jafo: I have a lot of Royo's stuff....this one must'a slipped by me....I would have recognised his style, even if I didn't recognise the work. |
I really do think sometimes you test us to see if we're paying attention - that was too easy.
His style is unique - it was the " wings " I noticed right away , he has used them in a few of his works.I wonder how Rojo would feel knowing he only got a 6 rating lol
| ol..., that's kind of stupid |
Well - maybe he just thought it meant upload a wall you like ?
Oh well - if your gonna rip - might as well make it a good one .
Reply #34 Tuesday, July 25, 2006 7:55 AM
I've rejected that wall before - didn't see this slip through though 
Reply #35 Tuesday, July 25, 2006 5:11 PM
| I've rejected that wall before - didn't see this slip through though |
But this is why I asked on another thread about so many walls with 1/2 star and 1 star ratings all of a sudden have appeared in the wall gallery. They have 4 week old dates on them and Zero downloads..it almost looks like they were uploaded by accident..Thats how I saw that one by Luis Rojo. I had to go through 5 pages of 10 walls on a page to get to where I saw familar stuff again. There were lots of walls by same person in a row - just seemed out of place that they had no downloads at all. Unless its a glitch that these were walls that were supposed to show on WC personal sites and somehow are in gallery.
Reply #36 Friday, July 28, 2006 6:56 PM
All buttons in it are from https://www.wincustomize.com/ViewSkin.aspx?SID=1&SkinID=4430&LibID=26
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Reply #21 Wednesday, June 14, 2006 4:56 PM