This is a policy clarification note for art plagiarism. Please note that the forum standards for art plagiarism differ to the forum standards for fiction plagiarism.

The main problem the forum is concerned about is the possibility of being sued by Alliance Atlantis/The Story Hat due to someone claiming modified screenshots as their own work. This forum is also concerned with each of our artists’ rights over their own work and therefore is against all forms of art theft.

Please report any wrongful use of art. Each artist here deserves to say what they allow other people to do with their art.

Issues discussed:

• Screenshot Art in Threads
• Edited Art in Threads
• Original Art in Threads
• Banners and Avatars

Issue: Screenshot Art in Threads

Bad. Screenshots should not be called “your art”.

Entirely acceptable. Have a nice day!

This is perfect. Have a cookie and a nice day.

Issue: Edited Art in Threads

This is edited art.

Bad. You need both permission and credit to publish someone’s edited artwork.

Very good!

Very good! The artist gets to say who can use her work.

Templates are usually intended to be used by others, so permission will often not be necessary, but permission should be asked if the artist’s intentions are in any respect unclear.

Issue: Original Art in Threads

Bravo! This is the main purpose of this forum.

Issue: Banners and Avatars

Banners and avatars are assumed by default to be used with due permission.

Banners and avatars are not being labelled as your art, so we will probably not get sued over this.

Quite right, and we understand. Go on thy merry way.

Bannermakers often attach their own credit to specifically made banners, so credit is nice although not compulsory. Try to use only banners the original creator has offered to all.

Again, credit is nice if you can figure out where to put it, but not compulsory. Try to make sure the artist has no objections to it being used if there is any doubt.

You need to give credit and have permission, please, just like when using edited art in threads.

You’re the artist. Private message the admin if a user without permission refuses to remove your artwork from their profile.

That’s about it. Feel free to ask any further questions. Hopefully these examples will clarify forum policies on the use of screenshots and other people’s artworks.

Written by Sarah Frost, who is *not* an artist herself.

If you find something you think is in violation of this policy, proceed to the Plagiarism Report Procedure thread.

Wow, thanks for the imformation. I will go back to my screenshot art and gifs to give Alliance Atlantis/The Story Hat some credit.

Nicy nicy ^-^. I love it. I will have to go back as well! Keep it up LF.

well said, I believe you have covered everything in that one ^^

And I have a question, Can I post up a couple of dragon templates (not exactly dragon booster dragons) that I drew so that users here can color them in as if their dragon booster character was a real dragon? or is that concidered unrelated?

Thanks LF <3

That should be fine. :) If you're not sure that they're DB-related then you can post links instead.

okay thankies <3

Hmmm, Interesting. I will definetly just do my own original art. But this is handy to know for future references.

Out of curiosity, is there anywhere we can post original art on the forum not related to dragons or DB?

Nope. That's what Places like deviantArt are for. :)

Aww, oh well, thank ya much. Sadly the DA is not my friend :( , what with all the fav'ing and no comments.

Good greetings,

deepest apolagies for abruptly entering this forum but thy would like to post thine DB related art, please would yee give instructions in how to do such an act?

if it helps thy am a member on DA and would thy be allowed to post links to MY db fan art?

Thank yee for thou time


LUGIA FLYHIGHT

Actually, no, I don't want to post my own DB fanart, as I already have. If you, however, would like to, I can simply tell you to do what everyone else does. Create a thread, call it what you will, and post or link your DB fanart therein.

You may want to work on your personal pronouns, too. ;)