mildly pornographic avatar pics on Sciforums

Zippy the Pinhead is copyrighted material. A link to the page will suffice. Please edit or show us your permissions from Mr. Griffith.
 
SkinWalker said:
Zippy the Pinhead is copyrighted material. A link to the page will suffice. Please edit or show us your permissions from Mr. Griffith.
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Since you have no qualms about modding outside of your designated threads, I encourage you to carry your razor sharp discrimination to these copyright infringing sites as well

http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?t=50035&highlight=dilbert
http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?t=59154&highlight=dilbert

May the force be with you
 
I'm a 'girl' and I'd hardly consider my avatar pornographic.:confused:

And LG, if you have an issue with it, why didn't you just PM a mod or something? Honestly, one would think you were a prude..:eek:..
 
Shall we start by defining 'mildly pornographic'? Since I for one haven't got a fucking clue what that means.
 
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por‧nog‧ra‧phy  /pɔrˈnɒgrəfi/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[pawr-nog-ruh-fee] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation

–noun obscene writings, drawings, photographs, or the like, esp. those having little or no artistic merit.


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[Origin: 1840–50; < Gk pornográph(os) writing about harlots (porno-, comb. form of pórnē harlot + -graphos -graph) + -y3]

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por‧no‧graph‧ic /ˌpɔrnəˈgræfɪk/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[pawr-nuh-graf-ik] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation, adjective
por‧no‧graph‧i‧cal‧ly, adverb
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source por·nog·ra·phy (pôr-ngr-f) Pronunciation Key
n.
Sexually explicit pictures, writing, or other material whose primary purpose is to cause sexual arousal.
The presentation or production of this material.
Lurid or sensational material: “Recent novels about the Holocaust have kept Hitler well offstage [so as] to avoid the... pornography of the era” (Morris Dickstein).


[French pornographie, from pornographe, pornographer, from Late Greek pornographos, writing about prostitutes : porn, prostitute; see per-5 in Indo-European Roots + graphein, to write; see -graphy.]
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por·nogra·pher n.
porno·graphic (pôrn-grfk) adj.
porno·graphi·cal·ly adv.

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pornographic

adj : designed to arouse lust; "pornographic films and magazines"

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pornographic: in CancerWEB's On-line Medical Dictionary

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Very interesting, imaplanck. That should give us something to read whilst we await LG's definition of 'mildly pornographic'.
 
spuriousmonkey said:
Is the following image copyright free?
avatar11988_7.gif
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It's covered under Fair Use. The image is small and a brief still from a movie of many frames. -As opposed to an entire four-panel cartoon that Bill Griffith drew and expects to make money from.

And the only reason I bring it up in this thread is because the OP chose to begin a thread in an ethics forum about the avatar images of a few and their ethical considerations. It would follow that if ethics were something the OP were really concerned about, he'd not steal the intellectual property of others and display it here. Lightgigantic is a thief. Not only is he displaying images that are copyrighted (the copyright is clearly printed at the bottom of Bill Griffith's webpage: "Contents copyright © 2002-2003-2004-2005-2006 Bill Griffith." He is also moving the images to his photobucket account and changing the url.
 
SkinWalker said:
It's covered under Fair Use. The image is small and a brief still from a movie of many frames. -As opposed to an entire four-panel cartoon that Bill Griffith drew and expects to make money from.

And the only reason I bring it up in this thread is because the OP chose to begin a thread in an ethics forum about the avatar images of a few and their ethical considerations. It would follow that if ethics were something the OP were really concerned about, he'd not steal the intellectual property of others and display it here. Lightgigantic is a thief. Not only is he displaying images that are copyrighted (the copyright is clearly printed at the bottom of Bill Griffith's webpage: "Contents copyright © 2002-2003-2004-2005-2006 Bill Griffith." He is also moving the images to his photobucket account and changing the url.
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maybe you should start a thread about copyright and the net - don't expect me to contribute to it though - in fact don't expect me to contribute much to anything you post


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Bells said:
I'm a 'girl' and I'd hardly consider my avatar pornographic.:confused:

And LG, if you have an issue with it, why didn't you just PM a mod or something? Honestly, one would think you were a prude..:eek:..
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I've tried PM'ing mods - it doesn't work if the person harassing you is a mod - Skinwalker is one mod who has this problem. Q is another. The problem could probably be solved to a degree if there was the facility to place mod's on one's ignore list.
 
redarmy11 said:
Shall we start by defining 'mildly pornographic'? Since I for one haven't got a fucking clue what that means.
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A mildly pornographic image is something like imaplanck's avatar image - technically when you look at it, there's nothing to see, but it speaks in a language less subtle than a flashing neon sign.
 
SkinWalker said:
It's covered under Fair Use. The image is small and a brief still from a movie of many frames. -As opposed to an entire four-panel cartoon that Bill Griffith drew and expects to make money from.

And the only reason I bring it up in this thread is because the OP chose to begin a thread in an ethics forum about the avatar images of a few and their ethical considerations. It would follow that if ethics were something the OP were really concerned about, he'd not steal the intellectual property of others and display it here. Lightgigantic is a thief. Not only is he displaying images that are copyrighted (the copyright is clearly printed at the bottom of Bill Griffith's webpage: "Contents copyright © 2002-2003-2004-2005-2006 Bill Griffith." He is also moving the images to his photobucket account and changing the url.
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Doesn't matter. As long as you don't make money from it, it's OK. And if you use it as part of an artistic expression rather than claiming it as your own, it's also legally OK. I could sell a painting with the IBM logo on it and not pay IBM a cent.
 
lightgigantic said:
A mildly pornographic image is something like imaplanck's avatar image - technically when you look at it, there's nothing to see, but it speaks in a language less subtle than a flashing neon sign.
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No he said define it, not give an example of, or an opinionated comparison of.
 
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