Copyright notice: Cruel Player Character God

We can't use the current picture. The bottom-left corner has a copyright notice.

It's also over the size limit.

I assumed when seeing it that we had the VG Cats writer's permission to use it. Do we?

edited 27th Mar '11 11:04:40 AM by neoYTPism

Bumped, because Videogame Cruelty Potential was bumped.

We often use panles of webcomics without the author's permission. I don't see any reason for a different approach just because we use by chance the panle next to the copyright symbole.

I believe in another thread that Eddie said that as long as we're only using a piece of a copyrighted work, it's fair game...IIRC it's the Fantastic Racism IP thread if you wanna check for yourself. I like the vertical arrangment pic.

That's pretty much a strict improvement over the current one since it's within the size limit, so I'll swap them. (Previous◊)

Carry on.

edited 26th Apr '11 12:32:41 PM by troacctid

Looks great...can we go ahead and lock this?

"We often use panles of webcomics without the author's permission." - Osmium

The question is, should we? After all, isn't there something morally questionable about that?

EDIT: Though if we're to use it, I'd rather we use my version:

edited 26th Apr '11 4:11:03 PM by neoYTPism

As long as we're not using the entire strip, cropping the copyright notice out isn't a problem. Taking an excerpt from the comic for illustrative purposes falls under fair use.

Am I to guess that it also depends on how small a fraction the excerpt is? If so that is a point in favour of this image as it uses two panels from a 10-panel comic.

In any case, what about the larger version of the same two panels?

edited 26th Apr '11 6:04:54 PM by neoYTPism

Exactly. It would not be fair use to clip a copywrite notice off the full work. In this case 'the work' is the strip. One or two panels is an excerpt and there is nothing unethical about clipping the copywrite notice off.

You will observe that the copywrite notice is outside the frame of the image, indication it is about the strip, not that one image. If it were inside the frame, the specific image is being claimed and it would not be fair to use it.

edited 26th Apr '11 6:12:27 PM by FastEddie

Bump...I think we're good to go with the current image.

Should we go with the larger version I posted in the Video Game Cruelty Potential thread?

Bump...here's a reworked version that's a size compromise between the current version and the larger one. Good enough?

edited 14th Aug '11 4:59:37 PM by Willbyr

The intermediate-sized pic is up and the page is tagged; locking up.