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[14 Aug 2006|11:30am] |
Recently, I received some nasty comments for using someone else's icon. I do graphic design stuff myself, and have built websites for private businesses, and done a bit of photography, etc, so it's not that I don't appreciate the sensitivity of this subject. That said.. I'll give you my views on most of the icons (aka, 'graphics') used on LiveJournal.
First off, if you photographed the image yourself and/or generously manipulated it in photoshop, I can understand being offended when someone else just helps themselves to your work. This does not apply, however, to those who simply find an image on the web and 'make it tiny'. Reducing the size of someone else's image does not give you the right to claim it as your own, nor the right to ask for (oh, who am I kidding, demand) credit for it.
Are these people serious? Do they have nothing better to do than troll LJ, looking for 'icon pilferers' and then berate them for their supposed 'thievery'?
I'm so glad my life isn't that mundane.
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