Iron Knee:

Copyright. Okay I know I bitch about the lack of knowledge and training in this area. But if you are going to be an artist you better know the law. But gods and little fishes people really need to smarten up quickly.

I just changed web-hosting companies over the holidays. It was a nightmare. The site was down for 2 days. But that is not what I want to talk about. The new hosting company seems to be a much better company. (It would be hard to be worse than the last group on incompetent fools - bitter? no, truthful)

So the first thing I do is read all of their legal stuff looking for the fine print. They have a whole section on copyright infringement that covers everything from soup to nuts and them this is their image on their placeholder index page.



Do you see any copyright notices on this image? Do you think that they are paying Fox for the use of this image? Me nether. But they sure had their own copyright at the bottom of the page with all rights reserved.

Am I using this image illegally? Maybe? But I think I can squeak by under fair use. Lawyers don`t have to know how to draw but artist better know the law. No one said that being an artist was going to be easy or fair.