Re: Using pre-made graphics

I feel a smell of hypocrisy in this thread. Why? Because I am shore everyone
of you (if you are HTML writers) spent a long time surfing the net, so
everyone of you saw a lot of bad sites and a small number of good sites. And
in the moment you saw a good site you probably analyze it and search the
elements that made the difference. And, of course, you used the result of
this analysis in your designs. Now, using the same big words as you did,
this is a theft, it means stealing the result of a creative process, and, as
you all know, designing a good site is usually more difficult than designing
a good image, so you are stealing a more precious thing than just an image
(of course all of the above can be applied to he graphic design also). Now,
the difference is that the stealing in the case of ideas is more steam-like,
because is not an object but rather a concept. Is this less wrong (even if
the copyright law cannot be applied so easy or cannot be applied at all)?
No, sir, this isn't less wrong (in terms of common sense, not law). (and
please, do not write back telling me that you never steal concepts, because
you did, in a more or less conscious way).

Now, I'm not saying it's normal to steal. I'm not saying is excusable in
some way. What I didn't like was the violence of the discourse, the
angriness of some messages.
Definitely, hypocrisy.

And I believe the original question was more like:
"What do you think about using free art (cliparts) in your pages?"
My response? I don't use cliparts in my work and I don't like the ones who
did and say (explicit or not) it's their work.

Regards,
Mihai
PS. I you want, you can send me private flames, kicks, congratulations and
big prizes at:
jalobean(at)itm.mw.tu-muenchen.de

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