I am considering starting an AAR soon, and I was wondering what rules applied to images from sites such as Deviant Art, Imgur, and other such sites to be used in AARs?
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{No External Links} You will not post a link to an external website or forum without prior approval of an Administrator. (Sites with no user interaction (that only host media are okay, as long as that media meets and obeys all other rules) You will not link to images on other websites unless you have authorization to do so (or the site is designed for that purpose). This kind of "hot linking" is stealing the bandwidth of the server you link from, and is not appreciated. You will not post material (including text, images, graphics or other artwork) unless the copyright is owned by you, and/or Paradox, and/or the material is not in violation of any NDA (non-disclosure agreement) that you may have signed, and/or you have the expressed permission of the copyright holder to do so, and/or you fully attribute the holder of the copyrighted material.
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Rule 7:
{No External Links} You will not post a link to an external website or forum without prior approval of an Administrator. (Sites with no user interaction (that only host media are okay, as long as that media meets and obeys all other rules) You will not link to images on other websites unless you have authorization to do so (or the site is designed for that purpose). This kind of "hot linking" is stealing the bandwidth of the server you link from, and is not appreciated. You will not post material (including text, images, graphics or other artwork) unless the copyright is owned by you, and/or Paradox, and/or the material is not in violation of any NDA (non-disclosure agreement) that you may have signed, and/or you have the expressed permission of the copyright holder to do so, and/or you fully attribute the holder of the copyrighted material.
Rule 8:
{No Nazis, Pirates, or Porn} NAZIS -It IS illegal to show Nazi flags in Germany and various other countries. The same is true for other Nazi symbols (e.g. related to the SS) or Nazi propaganda material, including songs etc. Any links posted to a scenario or mod which includes a Swastika or other illegal Nazi symbols will be deleted. This also applies to any talk of concentration camps, as these are not and will not be in the game. Any threads that complain about this issue will be closed, and posters will be subject to disciplinary action for having done so. PIRATES -You will not post messages that request, condone, support, offer or discuss pirated software/media or links to other such sites that condone, offer it or discuss p2p sites/methods. PORN - You will not post pornographic, sexually offensive material or images of a type unsuitable for a family/office environment or post links to such material or images.
So, would sites such as the ones I listed count under "unless the site is designed to do so", and will I need to communicate with the artist first? And how do these rules pertain to anonymously posted images, or images that I have added on to using a paint program?
Yes. If you "link" to them via the img tags (img)(/img) - just replace the ()s with []s everything will be okay. Just don't link to them in the traditional sense of posting a link as both count as external forums and are against the rules.
If you have created the image yourself (either through paint or by screenshot of a game) and upload it to imgur/deviant art you are free to post it here no questions asked. As for works with other copyright holders, its a bit muddled but speaking personally (and not on behalf of Paradox), looking around there is a lot of art work just "stolen" wholesale, but I've never infracted anyone for it or removed any.
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