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As bonkers as it sounds companies are trying to trademark phrases ie http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/a-corporate-thankyou-no-thanks
Couldn't you post screenshots of the information you've found, or maybe put it up on the subreddit (if you have an account on reddit)? I don't use facebook and nor I care that much tbh.
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That all depends on whether the author/artist has asked a company to act on his behalf.
I know!!!! It's ridiculous and hilarious.
Yeah, I can post my transcript that I got finally. If you go to the site the artist has attribution on the image itself, and if you google that username it comes up with a person who is from the same country as listed on the profile on the graphics site. I'll try to post over on reddit if I remember to later, just on my way out for a bit.
Conversation started on : Thursday, February 02, 2017, at 16:39 (GMT+0)
Inquiry Details : I was wondering if you have licenses for all of your stock images. Specifically, I would like to see a license for file 14643700.
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[mod edit] I hope for all of your sakes that this vaporware releases some time before 2025, otherwise some of you whales are going to drain your kids' college funds buying "ships" you can't fly.
Great, thanks for posting that. So it seems they have a distribution license granted from the copyright holder.
So assuming he hasn't signed the rights to his artwork to another company he would have to pursue a cease and desist himself.
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Exactly!!! More than that, though, it's not his own work. The issue is that he's using something like a PSD template that might be widely available, like this here, which is from the same site, different artist, and then he's just typing some text in making use of the same filters for his text which are on the PSD file. So this is what I mean, it's not JUST an issue of copyright, it's a matter of the person who created the file can't copyright the file because it's created from another piece of licensed material (it's not original). So if I were to buy that same PSD template, I could just punch in my own text and the two images would be indistinguishable from each other. So that's where the problem arises.
BTW, the creator's name is Arkadi Bojaršinov
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Anyhow, I feel this is kind of besides the point. What matters is that CIG's artists are repeatedly taking other people's art and using it where they don't have the right to use it.
It's a shitty practice and something that they need to get a handle on.
Well the distribution site isn't liable since they aren't entering into any contract, they're simply acting as a facilitator, right? I've operated some font websites for the better part of a decade now and I have to maintain licenses for all licensed fonts that I have, which is a fucking nightmare to do (for a few thousand fonts). So it simply isn't happening with 74 million images, lol. So that's probably why they push that obligation to prove licensing to the user who submitted the content. I would say that stock graphics are so expensive simply because they aren't dealing in volume. Realistically, you could have a freelancer make an image for you more quickly and less expensively.
I don't disagree with you, though, about them stealing web graphics. As I said before, I don't necessarily think it's for the nefarious reasons that some might, but I do think it's just being lazy. It's not the first I've seen of it in a game, though. Shoot, it's not even the first time I've seen it in SC, lol. I can understand how it happens, though. An art directory says "Something like that...." pointing to the Internet and then they just take it for redesign. Just watch, I'll bet that there is something implemented on or before release which is not that far off the original.
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You mean Ortwin Frothymouth, last time he got involved things didn't turn out too well did they?
And some time in the future you may even be able to spell his name correctly. If the intellectual effort does not cause a Waaagh effect on you first.
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