Forums → Art, Music, and Writing → Jikek's Back with some sigs :D

Eddie, I've been keeping it quiet for awhile now, but that sig just looks like a screenshot of
halo with text. As far as sig rules are stated, that's not one. Sigs are YOUR OWN WORK, not
someone else's, even if they are a company of some renown.


Looks to me that only half of those sigs are genuine to Jikek. Why do some of them not have
your name / signature, Jikek?

because they were requests. i can prove to you all they are my sigs (of course the renders arn't mine) wouldn't it be slightly awkward to fulfill a request and put your name on it?

for the tnk rinorim and blakhazr. it is my brawl clan. blakhazr is not active anymore. Rino you will rarely see anymore. I have a feeling im gonna get banned for advertising my clan if i give you the link though.
the kira one is the name of the dude in the render. and if you dont seriously know who Brian Griffin is >.>

Nah, I've done it plenty of times =) The trick is to advertise it through not advertising,
like putting it up on your about page. Ok I believe you, and yes, it wouldn't be right if you
put your own name down on someone's requested sig XD

ok. so now after 2 pages of arguing i can actually get some CC :P

You're right, not many people just scrolling through really care. But no one passing by you when you're talking on a stolen phone really care either. But if/when the owner does see they're work being distributed without their permission and without their names nowhere to be found, they will care and you'll wish to hell you had taken the time and covered your ass.

Also, most f the render's are not allowed to be distributed and modified and are covered by copyright. That is because they they are just pictures that have been masked out of another picture that is almost guaranteed to be under a copyright or trademark protection. Example: a 'render' of master chief is really just a cut-out(though any professional would mask) of a screen shot on Bungie's web site. Just because the screen shot and terms of use was broken by another member that then distributes it freely does not mean you can accept it from him without limitations from its original owner. You always have to look at a pieces fine print, its author, its owner, its location, and, though not limited too, its terms of use, and you must ALWAYS comply by them. Here is the second section from Bungie's terms of service to show they have every right to go after you:

Unless otherwise specified, the Bungie Web Sites are for your personal and non-commercial use. You may not modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer, or sell any information, software, products or services obtained from the Bungie Web Sites.

i dont even have anything from halo? but what would a picture go under? products? software?

It doesn't apply to just Halo, all the images you have posted contain characters that are sure to be trademarks of various (large) companies. Images are not products or software, they are art.

so dank what do you recommend i do so you wont pull out your banhammer 2000 on me.

Here's a recommendation for everybody, actually:

The internet has people believe they can make pure awesome without putting in a lot of work by manipulating the awesome done by other people. This kind of shortcut mentality should be destroyed. That awesome came from somewhere else, so really, if you want to do awesome yourself, why not put in the hard yards yourself?

Looks to me that only half of those sigs are genuine to Jikek. Why do some of them not have your name / signature, Jikek?

Why do you people not believe that these are my sigs? gah, how pathetic do you have to be to steal sigs? i mean seriously! i can give you the XCF files to some of them if they're not deleted already. i can explain the process i did to make it! i even have eye witnesses! what do you want!

Jikek, they are currently saying why you should credit sources and show the copyright to the character used and so on.

i thought we already discussed that. this time ill get away with it next time its a banhammer to my head

bump because im active again, just got back from camp. need some requests, CC, anything :O