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this is such a good read, very informative. thank you for packing all of it and shared them to us!

I'm so glad it helped! Thanks for the comment and the follow

Good informations!

Thank you!

Wow, what a very linkable reference, one I should've had ages ago! I'm glad you started with copyrights after cartoons (previous top 5 blog).. the 2 that stick in my craw are: Liberty's Kids (PBS toon) and Shaolin Showdown (and it's sequel series about Raymundo). The former was lifted from a post-Revolutionary war compilation book, the latter lifted from a Chinese>English compilation book, both are past their copyright protections... no credit was ever given to the authors of these great books |:

The PBS production I can forgive, but the commercial one, no. It was written by a Chinese man before the turn of the 20th century, and predicted cellphones, airplanes and globalization well before his other contemporary sci-fi buddy's in the West did. Also a zinger of a storyline. Can only hope he's somehow related to the Chinese chick who ganked his material, again, unreferenced, no royalties or points paid :p

Yea I don't like it when credit isn't given even if something is in the public domain. It's more of an ethics issue than a legal one but still, you're right, it feels gross. Thanks for the comment and I'm glad it helped! Feel free to link it all over the place (=

Thanks for sharing this -- it's useful, to-the-point information and creators on Newgrounds should really take a gander at it.

For a website and community that utilizes a lot of material from other creators, I think it would be great if info on copyright laws/parodies/fair use was more accessible to everyone... especially for younger people who begin participating on here and may not 'know better.'

That's something that I found strange when researching all this was not just how little accessible information there was out there for artists, but how much mis-information was out there too! I hope that artists will feel more comfortable after reading this in the ways they are and aren't protected. It's tough to know that you're taking a risk if you don't know what the actual risk is. Thanks for the comment and the follow!