#usage rights

[draconym]

Apparently this is a subject of discourse on Twitter now, but for the record, all the art I post here is free for personal/private use!

I do really appreciate that people ask before they use my work, because many artists clearly feel differently than I do, and I think asking is the best practice for engaging with art online. Creators do have the right to determine how their work is used. "All Rights Reserved" includes the right not to have your work redistributed, even online.

But in the case of the vast majority of art I make, I have zero problem with you doing General Personal Use things with it: saving it to your phone, making it your desktop background, posting it in the groupchat, adding it to your character sheet for your friend's D&D session, printing it out and putting it on your wall. I AM glad people ask me, if only because I can feel good about myself that someone likes my work that much, but there's literally no way for me to know if someone does any of these things, and it doesn't really affect me much if they do.

If you share my work publicly, such as making it your icon on tumblr/twitter/discord, posting it to Pinterest, putting it in a forum or on a webpage, etc, you must provide credit, which is as easy as linking to my website or one of my social media pages. Basically, if there's an instance in which strangers could stumble across my work and ask, "who made this? Can I use it, too? Does this person take commissions?" they should have a method of finding me and looking that up. Some artists don't want their work shared, even with credit. But I'm pretty small-time in the online art world, and I do appreciate the exposure. (Note: some websites have "we own the rights to anything posted here" clauses in their TOS! DON'T repost art to websites like that! Usually they will ask YOU if you own the rights to the art you're posting. If it's someone else's art, you don't.)

Things that are NOT personal use and which I would like people to stop doing to my art forever: editing or tracing it, reuploading it to print-on-demand sites and trying to sell it, tracing it and then attempting to sell the traced art, making it a graphic or a logo for a company or website, basically trying to make money off of it in any way ... hopefully you understand the difference, here! (I don't have a problem with someone tracing my art for their own entertainment or for practice, but don't repost it, please.)

Unless I've specified otherwise with a piece (e.g. it's too personal, it's a commission and the commissioner doesn't want it shared widely, etc), you can download it, you can share it with credit, you can do anything else personal with it.

[acuiti]

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Reimagining Entitlement Management with SAP: Key Benefits & Features | Acuiti Labs 

Managing modern entitlements requires more than tracking usage rights—it demands automation, flexibility, and lifecycle intelligence. This summary outlines how SAP Entitlement Management streamlines modeling, integrations, renewals, and reporting, empowering businesses to reduce leakage, improve transparency, and scale recurring value. Acuiti Labs helps enterprises unlock smarter entitlement-driven revenue operations. 

[skyler10fic]

New to fandom question - and I tried going through your tag and didn't find an answer, so I thought I'd just ask. (Also - hi!) Straight screenshots of an ep, that I take myself - should I do a copywrite thing? Just mention in the post that I took them myself? No manipulation - straight screenshot for a post. What's the proper etiquette? Any suggestion/information welcome/appreciated! Thanks!

Hello! Nah, those are fair game for fanworks. It’s like quoting the TV show’s script in a fic. You’re fine not citing a source or including copyright on here. (If you were selling it, that’s another matter, though.) 

I even get mine off Screencapped.net, a site whose purpose is providing screencaps for the kind of stuff that we do (as well as to media outlets and academic and such). 

If you want to say which episode you got them from, that is cool, but you don’t have to. This is especially awesome with comparisons (parallel scenes from first and last episodes or seasons or whatever) so people get the idea of what you’re going for, or even just if someone has seen the show once and doesn’t remember the context, it’s helpful to have the name or number of the episode at least in the tags as a reference, but totally up to you. 

You also mentioned not maniping. Of course, you never have to, but know that that’s fine if you want to. I just posted a manip myself tonight! The source material of fanworks is always fair game for that stuff, because that’s sort of the point of fanworks, that they are derivative (which is another name for them!). :)

Hope this helps!

[section-crater-vary-greatly-xpi]

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[selfpublishingnews]

Copyright Infringement: Those Cute Kitten Pix May Cost You - BookWorks

How Indie Authors can safely use images on their websites, blogs and newsletters without risking copyright infringement, including image resources.

From the Bookworks Self-Publishers Association blog by Helen Sedwick.

Suppose you find the cutest kitten photo online. Without giving it much thought, you cut and paste it into a blog post about your childhood pet. You share the post on Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter. Two months later, you open an email from some lawyer accusing you of copyright infringement and demanding a $2000 payment.

Unfortunately, this is not a far-fetched scenario. Downloading an image from the internet is so simple many people forget that the images are the result of someone’s hard work and may be protected by copyright. In fact, many people think anything posted on the internet is free to use.

Not true.

Easy Doesn’t Equal Free- 

Images are intellectual property. If you use someone’s property without permission, whether it’s a car, a bicycle, or a photograph, it’s called stealing. And the chances of getting caught are increasing every day.

International stock image companies and professional photographers are signing up with TinEye and similar image search companies to scan the internet for infringing users. With ever-improving technology, these search engines locate images even if they have been cropped and altered, up to a point. TinEye claims to have indexed almost 16 billion images for its search engine.

This applies to book publishing too! Read the full article here.

[pink-yellow-and-blues]

Could you imagine if the concept of public libraries was invented in 2016?

[stillexpectb]

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