Why walls in screenshots 'need' to be reasonably obscured.

Tuesday, November 15, 2005 by Jafo | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk

It took all of 3 minutes to cleanly extract this wallpaper image from the desktop screenshot.

This means it's 'easily' possible to be seen to be distributing anothers wallpaper without consent, rather than it being a case of simple 'fair use', and exempt from such concerns.

When a wall is predominantly 'empty'  partly obscure the actual subject 'figure' and not just the 'blank' bits....

Threi
Reply #1 Tuesday, November 15, 2005 9:57 PM
lovely desktop Jafo
Jafo
Reply #2 Tuesday, November 15, 2005 10:03 PM

I probably should have mentioned...

the small 'Garfield' wall that's now partly obscuring the 'main' one....is my extracted wall image...reduced so as not to be 'extractable' in itself...

Bichur
Reply #3 Tuesday, November 15, 2005 11:02 PM
loverly cullers
Fuzzy Logic
Reply #4 Wednesday, November 16, 2005 2:51 AM
I like the phrase 'talk to the paw'
Cyberworld
Reply #5 Wednesday, November 16, 2005 8:50 AM
'talk to the paw'


I thought this meant talk to the author to gat permission...
Fuzzy Logic
Reply #6 Wednesday, November 16, 2005 12:36 PM
When you constantly have to tell folks about obscuring screenshots it feels like you're talking to the paw...
Threi
Reply #7 Wednesday, November 16, 2005 12:50 PM
i think it should be in bold on the submit page, so that people (espically newcomers) will know not to do that. Maybe its just me, but i dont feel newcomers are really informed about those rules.
Bichur
Reply #8 Wednesday, November 16, 2005 1:42 PM
i think it should be in bold on the submit page
Jafo
Reply #9 Saturday, November 19, 2005 8:06 AM
There was another classic one today....took 30 seconds tops....to get a perfectly good image that 'used to be' Teschio's, I believe....

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