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« on: January 08, 2005, 04:00:46 AM »
This has a double side to it...
Being a fan of the show I love to use the screen captures to make wallpaper, bookmarks and sigbars for my own use and play around with them in photoshop for fun.
But then there is the copyright issue...
All the material does belong to someone else and in the end they have the right to say what can and can't be done with it.
Some copyright holders or more relaxed on what they perceive as infringement in certain cases than in other cases.
I know someone who did some photoshopped wallpapers, using images from a recent movie that was out, and posted it to a free creative art site and the copyright holder of the movie saw it and decided he liked it and wanted that person to do a couple more to put up on the official movie site.
But that same copyright holder ordered a fanbased website devoted to this particular movie to remove screencaptures and fanbased artwork from their site because he considered what they were doing to be infringing on the copyright.
So in the end I guess it is whatever the copyright holder considers infringement.
FireRose