| Re: Cover Flip |
Subject: Re: Cover Flip
by pijon on 2012/8/28 22:03:39
Thanks for attempting to put this to rest, Daswook however I want to get back to Chilly's post for a minute before we close on the topic. I gotta say, the guy knows how to make waves 
In truth, copyright is an incredibly complex issue and fair usage is something which legally has to be determined on a case by case basis by experts. That chillyplasma presents himself as such an expert on these matters doesn't surprise me terribly. Nor am I terribly surprised that he would spend better than half his posting expressing his typically dogmatic view on the matter and then claim it to be "completely beside the point".
The first thing I want to know is what Chilly means by "people on this website"??!! Every (non-challenge) piece I've EVER seen him post was firmly based on someone else's art. I don't recall him ever crediting the photographers over whose work he built the images and the models had mostly gone uncredited as well. The parts he did add were mostly heavily based on the underlying form, highlights and shadows of the original piece and personally, I don't think his created costumes (based on someone else's copyrighted designs) floating in the air without someone else's work underneath would have much value yet somehow, he appears to feel himself above it all.
On a side note, I am still waiting on Chilly to site his source material from when he stated "(he had) looked up Influence Maps and the first thing that came up was ?Influence maps are a deviantArt meme?." I had asked him for this directly and he ignored me. Interestingly, I have many "first places" that I checked and could not find this reference. I must say that circumstantial evidence appears to be pointing toward a hmmm... how to put this delicately, ...a "manufactured truth." Of course, judging by the tone of his post, he is a man of very high principle so since his account is still active, I hope he will post that address and set the record straight.
That Chilly doesn't know how to talk to people... well, I think many would say that's a given. A man of certain contradictions to my view. Someone who repeatedly stated he didn't want "to put time" into the site and yet one who wants to interpret the rules for the other members. Perhaps moderating is best left to the moderators. Still, I don't want to lose sight of the fact that Chilly had, in fact, expressed quite a few good ideas in the forums. I, for one, hope Chilly does decide to come back, in spite of the fact that I don't find him particularly easy to get along with. As to why he left, I have no idea myself. I hope he does PM at least one of the mods to see if what he found so offensive is something that needs to be addressed. Personally, I can't help but think Chilly was really looking for an excuse to leave here in a huff because he's been asked to create the next challenge and was looking for an easy way out.
So let's not encourage him to leave, let's shine the light on him and see if he ACTUALLY can do better. He sure makes it sound like he can.... and not with some aggrandizing impossible ideas but with reasonable challenges. So come back and show us all, Chilly, how you're going to make HM "relevant" again.
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