User talk:Mooir
Leave messages for me here. Thanks! I'll try to check it often . . .
Stolen Art
If you call yourself an avid Dragon fan maybe you would check a couple more sources! all the pics I have posted were and still are under legal context! All the images you call "copyrighted" can be found at this website: http://www.dracos.org/newdragons/index.htm and have no copyright on them. Thank you. Xu Xie
No. Just because you find an image on the web with no notice does not mean it has no copyright. That site is not the copyright holder of those images. It is an illegal gallery site. The creator of that site probably hasn't created a single image on it. An image (or any other reproducible work) is copyrighted the moment it is created regardless if it has a copyright notice on it or not. So you broke the copyright by posting the images here in the first place. And second, you put (c) Xu after some of them claiming them as your own when they are obviously not yours. I've seen all of them elsewhere.
Dracos23.jpg - Old D&D illustration
Dracos348.jpg - a still from the Dragonheart movie
Dracos11.jpg - a scan from Discovery of Dragons by Graeme Base http://www.amazon.com/Discovery-Dragons-Graeme-Base/dp/0810932377/ref=pd_sxp_grid_i_2_0/102-8464040-2805751
Yellow Reaper.jpg - Cover art from an early edition of Anne McCaffery's DragonRiders of Pern books
Flames.jpg - Another old D&D illustration
My final point is: Those images you posted are copyrighted to others and you did not get permission to post them and you are claiming them as your own, so they should be removed.
Xu Xie: I understand you are just trying to be helpful as the wiki does have so few pages with artwork on them. But an artist need not put a copyright (c) symbol on their artwork for it to be copyrighted. The simple act of drawing it gives them the copyright. The wiki has the policy, which is on every edit page that says, "You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource. DO NOT SUBMIT COPYRIGHTED TEXT OR IMAGES WITHOUT PERMISSION!" If you have not asked the artists for permission to upload these images, you really should remove them. Besides being against the our policy, it is also very rude to the artists who worked so hard on these lovely images. - Strangerface 13:12, 13 May 2007 (PDT)
