Since I, myself create many pages and try to experiment with new ideas,
I can understand someone wanting a little recognition for their work.
But where should it end?
The biggest discussions in groups right now, are copyright no-no's.
My first thought is, if you don't want someone to see it or use it, why are you even making it?
Secondly, if you want people to pay for it, why offer it free the first time and only God knows why you would you place it on the internet if you aren't sure.
There are ways to keep people from downloading images, why aren't these artists using these?
If I don't want my page to be used by someone else, I can encrypt the source page. If I don't want an image copied, I can place a clear GIF over it.
Someone might figure it out eventually but it will slow them down.
I've posted this a few times before:
Anything posted in our group should be considered available to everyone on the internet.
I use many of our pictures and siggies, somtimes posts, in pages that I make.
Even in some outside our group. If someone wants to use any of my pictures or pages, go ahead,
just place a small statement somewhere that I made it. I don't think it's right for someone to say yea,
it's OK to use my stuff then a year later come back and say it's a no-no.
Even though I have done this, I do realize I was in the wrong.
A gift still remains a gift, no matter the outcome.
My example for that would be the Blabber that I created in 2006.
Although I never used the Blabber name, I did a different version of it in here.
The UniChatter.