Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28172979-20170714201930/@comment-32583169-20170715132507

CrystaltheCool wrote:

SnapaiKun wrote:

CrystaltheCool wrote: Why the fuck are you doing "@Person" instead of quoting like a normal person? Weirdo.

Also, what you're saying isn't completely true. Our work falls under the CC-BY-SA license - although you can do whatever you want with our work, legally speaking you MUST GIVE CREDIT.

Just linking to the Useful Portrait Stuff page doesn't count as proper crediting, as it's too broad. You aren't going to use a part from every user who contributed to the page, are you? Which means if you just credit the page, although you technically end up crediting the correct people, you also credit people who didn't have any involvement.

Thus, it's simpler to just credit the users who made the parts you used as you make the portrait. But maybe it's too hard because Amino is a crappy mobile-exclusive service (also, fuck mobile-exclusive services - desktop is better in every conceivable way), I don't know, I don't use Amino.

However, as a desktop user, crediting the users as you go along is SO EASY YOU CAN DO IT WITH YOUR EYES CLOSED as long as you keep your credits in a txt file (these can be created through apps like notepad) and keep it open for use as you go. Obviously the exact means for this aren't available on mobile, but they probably have something similar.

Point is, it's not hard to credit the creators of the parts you use at all, and just crediting an entire wiki or page is completely lazy and credits mostly the wrong people (though the right ones are credited too) in the process. I wasn't sure how quoting worked honestly. I figured it out now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use

Just look at it. Please. It doesn't matter if it's copyrighted, creative commons, etc; Fair Use exists.

Since you don't even use Amino, I don't see why you are trying to argue with me; you don't even know how it works. You don't know if it's "crappy" or not.

It's also easier for Amino members to link the Useful Portrait Stuff page because of the fact everyone is already credited on there. Even people's names are under the images of the pieces needing to be credited. But no one thought about that either, apparently. You're missing the point - even if all the credits are on the page, by just crediting AN ENTIRE PAGE AND/OR WIKI, you're also crediting people who made parts that you didn't use (or, in the case of crediting an entire wiki, people who don't even make portraits are credited too) - thus, it is too broad. It's more accurate to credit the users who made the parts, rather than an entire community. Im a way, isn't that technically better? You're crediting those people, as well as providing a resource for people to use other parts as well. It may be to broad, but it's still getting the job done.

And once more, we technically don't even have to credit you because of Fair Use. The fact we even credit the page should suffice.