It's the same bizarre etiquette disconnect that causes people to have no trouble to use images they "found" on the internet (whether photos, art, textures whatever) without any attribution, but if something like two sentences are copied and adapted for a punch line when it is text, it counts as "plagiarism". It drives me mad in comic fandom that so many people do icons from comic sources and don't even list the original artist, when there is no way to tell who did the work or to find it in the masses of comics.
I tried to track down artists from things I've seen in icons and the icon users didn't even know. The only one credited was the person who cropped the icon, and going back to them, they told me they "found" the image via google.
I've had people actually assume plenty of time that my icons come from somewhere, rather than being drawn by me, because they are so used to see art just taken, whereas I thought it was obvious they were using my drawings, what with me not crediting anyone else!
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Date: 2009-05-04 06:57 am (UTC)I tried to track down artists from things I've seen in icons and the icon users didn't even know. The only one credited was the person who cropped the icon, and going back to them, they told me they "found" the image via google.
I've had people actually assume plenty of time that my icons come from somewhere, rather than being drawn by me, because they are so used to see art just taken, whereas I thought it was obvious they were using my drawings, what with me not crediting anyone else!