Here's my take; solely as personal opinion (because laws are just based on popular opinion of the time).
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Originally Posted by u-Bob
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-- Fuck you and your sig-spot, pansie.
Add something, even something you try to make useful, to the conversation. Even if it's an attempt at being useful but ends up completely useless, like my post below.
Pansie.
Second, I'm guessing you are referring to some of the sigs / ads that blatantly sport a/an image(s) from copyrighted material. Now there's laws about being able to change something, I think it's around 15% of the original, where that new image is no longer part of the original - thus you're protected. It's all gray, sketchy, and I wouldn't fuck with any of it. (Maybe it's just text I'm thinking of????)
However, and this is my own opinion, with no sense of law or duty to the law: I would say, anyone using copyrighted material they have no license to use, in their sig / banner to SELL something non-related is a thieving, fucking, worthless, pansie bitch.
And this is where my personal opinion comes into play: If someone's using some copyrighted work for pun, artistic impression, without monetary gain from it, I see no problem with it. It's used as a piece of "play", not intended to resell or monetize of it.
Then again, I'm rather retarded. So disregard this post.
And all apologies for it.