Citations only reveal the source of the original work. They don't magically grant permission to access.
All anime image scans are specifically in the public market for people to use at their own discretion. We call that Public Domain, because it's entirely open to the public. Anything not of the Public Domain not only requires citation (as a show of good faith and respect to the original author), but often monetary compensation for using someone else's work.
Yes. You would have to pay this person.
Now, some original creations are put up explicitly for other people to use, and so there's nothing wrong with using them. For example, this sketch submitted by our News Editor, Kei, used a posture chart provided by deviantArt member Aomori, which can be found in her Tutorials gallery. Aomori noted on the image comments that the chart was uploaded for people to use as a reference, so there's no rule infraction there.
However, if you copied the chart and used each position to model your own character's features, then submitted it again as fanart, that would be plagiarisim.
Edit: As for identifying someone's original work from a scan: for sites like zerochan, such discernment is rather difficult, simply by nature of the material the site allows.
The easiest solution, then, would be to take the advice SunfallE gave, and only pull your source images from sites dedicated solely to anime scans.
plagiarism – n.1 the act of plagiarising: If an author is once detected in borrowing, he will be suspected of plagiarism ever after (William Hazlitt). 2 something plagiarised; an idea, expression, plot, or the like, taken from another and used as one's own.
So yes. It's everything to do with taking someone else's fanart and using it as your own.
So we can't get images off of zero chat anymore? what if we site where we got the image we used? How do we know if we use an image, if it's plagiarism?
What you say is so true and useful and I said it as well in at least 3-4 world posts. I doubt people will miraculously understand.
I often wonder why MT & AP aren't people's main choice for scans. The stuff on zerochan is often small and needs resize, therefore many walls/cards look LQ.
AP now has free vector downloading. What can be more awesome? HQ vectors, already extracted, just waiting to be used... And MT has this rule (I can't agree on) that even unregistered people can download what they like. It's all too convenient, yet they still go to zerochan.
Allamorph
Spiritus Memorae (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 05/01/11 | Reply
@Amestar:
Citations only reveal the source of the original work. They don't magically grant permission to access.
All anime image scans are specifically in the public market for people to use at their own discretion. We call that Public Domain, because it's entirely open to the public. Anything not of the Public Domain not only requires citation (as a show of good faith and respect to the original author), but often monetary compensation for using someone else's work.
Yes. You would have to pay this person.
Now, some original creations are put up explicitly for other people to use, and so there's nothing wrong with using them. For example, this sketch submitted by our News Editor, Kei, used a posture chart provided by deviantArt member Aomori, which can be found in her Tutorials gallery. Aomori noted on the image comments that the chart was uploaded for people to use as a reference, so there's no rule infraction there.
However, if you copied the chart and used each position to model your own character's features, then submitted it again as fanart, that would be plagiarisim.
Edit: As for identifying someone's original work from a scan: for sites like zerochan, such discernment is rather difficult, simply by nature of the material the site allows.
The easiest solution, then, would be to take the advice SunfallE gave, and only pull your source images from sites dedicated solely to anime scans.
Amestar
Pikachu Lover (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 05/01/11 | Reply
How do you know if it's a scan? Isn't everything we take plagiarism? So we can't use zero chan?
Allamorph
Spiritus Memorae (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 05/01/11 | Reply
@Romanos Vixen:
So yes. It's everything to do with taking someone else's fanart and using it as your own.
Amestar
Pikachu Lover (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 05/01/11 | Reply
So we can't get images off of zero chat anymore? what if we site where we got the image we used? How do we know if we use an image, if it's plagiarism?
RayMan87
Ser Pounce a Lot (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 05/01/11 | Reply
three words ..
D e s
b e a t s
t h em
a l l
I may not be smart enough to do anything, but I am dumb enough to try anything. ;p
SakuraDust
Moderator | Posted 05/01/11 | Reply
What you say is so true and useful and I said it as well in at least 3-4 world posts. I doubt people will miraculously understand.
I often wonder why MT & AP aren't people's main choice for scans. The stuff on zerochan is often small and needs resize, therefore many walls/cards look LQ.
AP now has free vector downloading. What can be more awesome? HQ vectors, already extracted, just waiting to be used... And MT has this rule (I can't agree on) that even unregistered people can download what they like. It's all too convenient, yet they still go to zerochan.
Romanos Vixen
Grand Otaku | Posted 05/01/11 | Reply
What does plagerism mean, and is this to do with getting other peoples fan art and claim it as your own?