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Copying it is right out. By copying I mean posting the pertinent file as if it was yours without previous agreement and credit given by linking back to the original. That will result in copyright being enforced fully. This also includes alterations meant to obscure any copyright lines I may have on my work. E-mail or note me if you intend to do this so we can make an arrangement.
Derivatives will be judged on a case by case basis. As a rule of thumb, they should be different enough from the original, have artistic merit and give credit by linking back to the original. While I'm usually lenient with this I would prefer I would be made aware of these works before or as they are posted.
Referencing as long as it doesn't fall in the derivative bin is welcome though a link back to your references would be strongly recommended as a gesture of politeness to the artists you referenced from. While noting or e-mailing me about this point is not required, it's definitely a plus. If you want, you can have a critique to go along with it.
The above will be judged by me personally. While I appreciate the thought when people report art theft I'd rather when it pertains to me that it would be reported by note or e-mail without any action being taken. I'm not sure I like the actions of other people being confused for my own.
Honor Wall
By posting the links to these works here I mean to say that these are fine by me:
Derivative
plumebleu.deviantart.com/art/D… www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7eEcU…
dilong-paradoxus.deviantart.co…




Honor Wall
By posting the links to these works here I mean to say that these are fine by me:
Derivative


And that was that for chats
Some more context on my Facebook profile.
It's nice to have a private place where you can bounce ideas off similarly-minded people and generally be sociable but I've come to realize, as for other Web 2.0 modes of interaction in the past, that there's a risk of that becoming all you do. So after a year or so testing the likes of Facebook and Discord as chatting platforms I've decided Skype is the chosen one (for now at least) and it seems to me that the first chat group I've joined on there has an activity level I can keep up with.
So all invites to join chats elsewhere are preemptively declined (as are for other venues like forums and sundr
Say No To Art Contests
Let's see if I can summarize this ramble of mine on why I am turned away from most art contests into easily digestible points.
:bulletred: Always read the rules in detail. Overwhelmingly you'll find an item that says you relinquish your commercial rights pertaining to the submitted artwork or even all of them to the entity holding the contest just to participate.
:bulletred: All things being equal, a contest corresponds to a ballot where a "ticket" is something for which entrants likely worked hard for and yet only three of them at most get a one time payment, resulting, if that hasn't already happened, in the complete forfeiture of the win
A Speculative Palaeobiology Group
SpecPalaeo (https://www.deviantart.com/specpalaeo)
Hopefully one of the more productive community-oriented efforts stemming from #buildabetterfaketheropod. I hope those of you approached by the administrator can exercise forbearance regarding the pertinent recent bout of querulousness over Brian Engh's modest proposal, but that exercise, with time, has have given Lediblock2 (https://www.deviantart.com/lediblock2) a better appreciation for those that like their speculative fiction with a bit more inventiveness. That said, I'm sure the more conservative imaginings will also have their place there.
Meanwhile at the Paleoartists Group...
...an admin wonders about the point of it all.
So beyond all the issues pertaining to my livelihood that take precedence over most community efforts I can part-take in, there's this failure of communication I don't understand and consequently can't figure out a way to tastefully resolve and frankly leaves my charitability tattered and frayed far too quickly. So unable to be agreeable enough in this situation most of the time I move on to other things.
Let's see for how long I can avoid that tropism this time around.
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