The work must be your own ..... or consent is required.
Wednesday, January 12, 2005 by Jafo | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
"When you use another's skin to create your own you need to alter/create ALL of the images to be your own. Half of the files here date back a year older which indicates they are not original to your work."
I think it's time there was a nice, clear new list of what is expected of a skin submission....and why.
If a 'flag goes up' with a skin submission whether due to clear 'familiar' appearance with something else, or the uploader has 'got it wrong' in the past, the submission is looked at more closely.....especially if another member has brought it to our attention as well.
Sometimes it's a per-pixel comparison combined with dates to determine the original work and the 'copy/derived'.
Image creation dates are a clear indicator that not all images were original to that skin....then the only thing to determine was whether all images irrespective of date were original to that author....or whether consent was included for any that were not.
This isn't usually a complicated task...but it IS time-consuming...which is where the general community has the chance to lessen the load on the volunteer admins.
2 ways.
1. Help find them and clearly provide links to original and 'copy' for the admins to deal.
and better...
2. Do not add to the workload by uploading any 'problem' works yourselves.
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Reply #2 Wednesday, January 12, 2005 8:48 PM
My plan is to perhaps use some of the pixel dimensions of skins that I know work well, and create my own images and artistic design using those dimensions to create my first skin (i.e., taskbar thickness, button sizes, start menu height and widths, etc.).
I gather this is acceptable, please advise at your convenience. It will be a while before I complete a full WindowBlind Skin.
Reply #3 Wednesday, January 12, 2005 9:09 PM
| My plan is to perhaps use some of the pixel dimensions of skins that I know work well, and create my own images and artistic design using those dimensions to create my first skin (i.e., taskbar thickness, button sizes, start menu height and widths, etc.). |
Absolutely nothing wrong with that. I often use other skins for reference in this manner.
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Reply #7 Thursday, January 13, 2005 1:27 AM
horiz0n ..... no, as much as is humanly possible it should be left 'private'.
There's nothing worse than publicly airing a false accusation of a wrong-doing....
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Reply #12 Thursday, January 13, 2005 3:08 AM
well it shouldn't matter if they know who reported, hell i'd prefer them to know i reported it, the "private" part is so people that shouldn't know you're reporting them (general public or the person that's potentially the ripper) are kept safely away from any embarrasement. Besides I'm sure if it was made a tab, or if there was a sticky that only admins had access to read, you'd have to be signed in. So you would always have a name attached to it, and pointing at something and saying it's a rip isn't what we're referring too, although some thats about all you'd need to do and really don't need further proof, it's like a no brainer rip. Like if I submitted this claiming it's a wallpaper I made......
[edited and removed as it is a copyright infringement in itself...by Admin]
it doesn't take a genious to KNOW thats ripped without any proof, but if it's needed getting the proof usually takes 3 minutes or less on google, and if you post the link to the place it was ripped from, case closed. Common sense goes a long way on this. And making a billion emails and sending off all these letters, deciding which ONE!! of the many mods to email to, then finding another one again later and having reload email client, yadda yadda as opposed to...
being on this site....
1 click "rip" tab
2 identify the rip and include any proof you may have found
3 click send button
DONE! you can't get more simple than that.
Now you identified it, ALLLLLLLLLLLLLL THE ADMINS CAN SEE IT, and take any neccesary action, and they know who reported it. Though even with your name attached I don't see the difference between me reporting or Shirley Temple's ghost. But I'm all for the admins knowing who reported and needing to be a registered user to do so, since that would eliminate possible abuse.
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Reply #14 Thursday, January 13, 2005 6:20 AM
| like this .. you see a rip .. then come to the boards .. hit the RIP tab and it opens a "rip report" page with a text box you fill in the info and submit .. and it appears in a rip reports section on the admin boards .. away from the publics view .. so it is handled decretely.... |
I like that idea, HG! Good thinking mate
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Reply #17 Thursday, January 13, 2005 7:32 AM
butch....no, unfortunately the onus is on the uploader to not 'rip', and failing that it is upon the site's administrators to deal with it.
No-one can expect the innocent party to be obliged to police something outside his own physical control...
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Reply #20 Thursday, January 13, 2005 9:21 AM
.. i was just expanding on horiz0ns idea...either way, like at DA having a rip report button on each item uploaded that you can press and send a report or with a single tab.. it would be a great feature 
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Reply #1 Wednesday, January 12, 2005 7:33 PM