People recreating other's works

  • Rconover
    8th Aug 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    I am sick and tired of people taking other peoples' creations and redo-ing or re painting their creations.

    An example of this is my Smelting Machine, the first smelting machine since version 36. seen here

    http://i355.photobucket.com/albums/r465/superKoolpictures/NewSmeltingMechanism.jpg

    After creating the smelting machine primarily to be used to mix metals and formed into molds or to use as a sealing applicant for holes and other uses, I notice about yesterday from this post date that my Smelting machine after searching "Smelt" I see about 5-7 smelting machines all with the same look and design as mine, the people's lists follow:

    Epsilon (Direct design and shape, with exactly the same width, and then credited Cr15py for the idea)
    Petaki (he gave credit, no hate)
    Crippledfaggot123 (gave credit to petaki and me, no hate)
    Themadscientist (direct correlation between mine and the design)
    Cr15spy (exact same shape and design with different "on/off" parts)

    I am sick and tired of these people taking my design and then turning into something they think is original.

    To help solve this fraud and imitation problem, I Suggest that people brand their creations with a word tag of their name, date, and time of their creation to prove that it is original.

    Also it would be wise to take screen shots of your creations over the clock of your computer with date showing.
  • bchandark
    8th Aug 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    Calm down. It doesn't really matter, it's just a bunch of pixels on a screen.
    One thing wrong with your suggestion is the fact that anyone could predate their tag. And I bet a good amount of people can Photoshop a simple date/time (the font isn't exactly uncommon).
    There's really nothing you can do to "patent" your design.
    By the way, didn't see your smelting chamber in there.
  • ssc4k
    8th Aug 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    bchandark:
    One thing wrong with your suggestion is the fact that anyone could predate their tag. And I bet a good amount of people can Photoshop a simple date/time (the font isn't exactly uncommon).

    That and you can change the date to any time on your computer whenever you please. I agree, it wasn't that complicated, you got credited most of the time, and it's not that big of a deal. Some things will just happen no matter what you do.
  • Xenocide
    8th Aug 2010 Former Staff 0 Permalink
    and touch can modify creation dates on the images anyway. just vote them down or something... imitation is the sincerest form of flatery
  • HK6
    8th Aug 2010 Former Staff 0 Permalink
    If you feel that any of your creations have been stolen feel free to let me know and I will look into it for you.
  • Rconover
    8th Aug 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    bchandark
    Mine has no tags, and will only show with its full name or by searching my name.
  • bchandark
    8th Aug 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    I think the name is broken down into tags. I think your creation is probably private.
  • VisuallyDaft
    8th Aug 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    Unfortunately this is just a problem that cant be solved for now.
  • wouter215
    8th Aug 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    this would not be a problem if people would just properly use the Creative Commons licences:
    http://powder.hardwired.org.uk/View.html?ID=4578
  • bchandark
    8th Aug 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    wouter215
    A Creative Commons license won't stop anyone from taking a design. I doubt most people even know what a CC license is.