Here are a few more sets made from Polyvore. Please take note that all the images, graphics or illustration do not belong to me, but it's a collage of those images made up into a visual 'set'. The images available on that site are mostly uploaded by the users of Polyvore. And I'm beginning to think that, a number of those photos are actually copyrighted. Eeek!
Because the photos uploaded from users I believe are taken from somewhere on the internet, on art sites such as deviantART and Flickr to name a few. Then to have them edited, cut out, different from the original image, is definitely a no no unless with permission, which of course I doubt they have.
Upon investigating well googling, I found out there has been many concerns with Polyvore regarding copyright issues. So one has to be extra cautious when using images found on Polyvore for their sets to prevent any infringement. I'm pretty sure that the clothing items are safe to use, but those graphic elements, images, well most probably not. So as much I love creating these sets, I will discontinue creating these so called 'Art & Expression' set. Unless, I'm extremely sure that the images are okay to use.
But having to use this, it has sparked a bunch of new ideas. It still can be done with stock images, but it'll take extra work to cut out the image. Polyvore does it automatically for you, that's what makes it so fun because it's easy. Cuts down all the tedious work. Anyhoo, it was fun for a while, till I started thinking about, uh wait, these images, where did they really come from? Is it their own, well I don't think soooooo, so what, do they have permission to cut them out and use it on Polyvore? I don't think soooooo, so you mean it's actually a copyright violation?? Ting ting ting ting! Spot on Anna Joe, spot on. *Slaps self* Duhhhhhhh.
Anyhoo, I still will be using Polyvore for my fashion sets on countthethread. In fact I opened up another account for certain posts in my budu dan belacan blog. As I mentioned not having to manually getting rid of unwanted backgrounds, Polyvore really comes in handy. But to create 'art' from someone else's art, is just plain wrong. Tsk tsk tsk. You nawdy!
Being on the internet, it's really easy to do mistakes like this, accidentally plagiarizing without even realizing, or 'accidentally' downloading movies from torrents, or computer software and using crack codes or key generators that has some lame loud techno music at the background to unlock them. You 'unintentional' cyber criminals! Bad people bad!
Much Love, Sue Anna Joe
