Originally posted by ChazzWorld
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I'm on a forum where they are strict about using stocks which ain't allowed, so yeah i do know about asking permission... Those were random stocks i found after a 10 sec searching and posted as example to give that guy a view of what stocks are.
& I never used any of these. I linked to the user's profile with the photo instead of directly to the stock.
The stock i used in my tag is found on a resource pack, i can link you easily if you don't believe..
If you know not to use those kind of photographs, then why the hell would you link someone to them? More specifically, why wouldn't you have gone to the Resources and Stock Images section of DA before searching for images?
Those aren't "random stocks", they're random photographs that people do not have permission to use in their own work. Yes that may mean they're like stocks, but you could have just as easily said "A render is a picture with no background, but stocks have backgrounds." And then you wouldn't have been showing someone (who is obviously not well versed in gfx) copyrighted artwork and saying "Oh hey these are pictures you can use in your sigs."
And I believe you about the stock you used being in a resource pack, I've been doing this GFX thing long enough to have hundreds of those myself. What I'm annoyed with is the fact that you showed copyrighted work as an EXAMPLE of the type of thing you use in your work - especially linking someone to DeviantArt and basically saying "Go crazy, this is all for your use."