Copyright infringements and you
More and more frequently, I receive e-mails from readers who want to inform me that images from our comic(s) are posted on other websites. This can be very helpful to detect copyright infringements, so I’m grateful for every notice I receive.
Note, however, that not every usage of our comics is automatically a copyright infringement. Our comics are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. In short, this free license allows the publication on non-commercial websites if proper attribution to the creators is given (more info).
But even if you believe that there’s a massive copyright infringement going on, you should never file a take-down request yourself! This is still my job if I feel that some kind of reaction is required. What you can do, apart from informing me, is to write a comment beneath the submission/blog post/… with a link to our comic website. Plenty of readers have found our comics this way.
You are absolutely right. The comic I’ve seen that does most cameos is ‘Precocious’ at precociouscomic.com The creator, ‘Chrispy’ Paulsen, advises in subscript who the character is, where to find the strip and who creates it every time he uses a character (Kevin & Kell, Badly Drawn Kitties, Dan & Mabs characters have appeared in this arc along with others) He treats them with respect. I am aware some creators don’t. Good luck to you.
I’ve posted a few English S&W comics to imgur, but I’ve always given credit to this website and provided a link. So since I provided credit, I won’t get sued?
I think I’ve just found a reason to love this comic even more. Hooray for creative commons!
@ Welsh Halfwit:
Well, at least as far as Sandra and Woo is concerned, the license does not actually allow derivative works, so such “cameos” would actually be incompatible with it. Of course, whether the author decides act upon this is up to him entirely.
@ pip25:
All Creative Commons licensing is “notwithstanding any other agreement”. So if Oliver agrees to it, he’s in the clear.
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