The Inevitability of Plagiarism in the Age of the Interwebzorz

Most of them are mine. I don’t mean to say that I invented them, although, in some cases, I did, just that I put them together in a way that (maybe) no one else had before. I have a little thing over there > that says this:

What that means is you are free to share anything you find on this site, provided that you give me credit and use it for non-commercial purposes (or cut me in on the profits). It doesn’t take much to give credit, just a link. The same goes for my drawings. I don’t think that’s too much to ask.

I’ve had my stuff stolen before. It’s not a pleasant feeling. A while ago, I created a little avatar of a dinosaur to use on a website and I found someone on YouTube who had stolen my dinosaur and used it as their own. While it is flattering that someone would like my stuff enough to steal it and call it their own, I would think that if it really was yours, you wouldn’t use a low resolution version that looked like crap.

I told the YouTuber in question, very nicely I might add, that I wasn’t going to sue him or anything, but I’d appreciate it if he’d at least give me credit if he was planning to use my work. If not, please stop using my image. He never replied, but the next day, my little dinosaur was gone. Fair enough.

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