Blessed Are the Icon Makers
Oct. 19th, 2010 01:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alliecat8Remember when I said I wanted to attempt making icon posts in comms? And then I didn't? Well, I was being Allie and keeping it in my brain but not getting on with it. Sigh. Anyhow, I think what's holding me up are some questions about what's an original icon that you can take credit for and what's not. I can't draw or do much of anything from scratch: I have to use "bases" I find "out there," wherever, on the internet. For instance these:
I feel like I can take credit for these because I got the pics from an uncopyrighted sight and I personalized them with words and effects. So I can claim them as my own work, right?
But what about this:
Also from an open site, but all I did was crop it. I have no idea who made it. Does cropping count as making it mine?
What is the etiquette? What are the rules? Is there a site where everything is laid out about what is MY work and what belongs to someone else, about where the line is drawn? Because I don't want to step on anyone's toes by claiming their work as mine in a comm, even if I did make changes and it wasn't a protected image. Help please?
I feel like I can take credit for these because I got the pics from an uncopyrighted sight and I personalized them with words and effects. So I can claim them as my own work, right?
But what about this:
Also from an open site, but all I did was crop it. I have no idea who made it. Does cropping count as making it mine?
What is the etiquette? What are the rules? Is there a site where everything is laid out about what is MY work and what belongs to someone else, about where the line is drawn? Because I don't want to step on anyone's toes by claiming their work as mine in a comm, even if I did make changes and it wasn't a protected image. Help please?
