There are several reasons why I dislike people
using my cel images. Some of these apply to sites
that steal cel images for random image galleries,
some only to sites that steal cel images and
display them as cels. In more or less descending
order of importance:
4) If every site on the web has the same rehashed
images and content taken from others it's boring
and pointless. It is especially annoying for
people with slow connections to spend time
downloading a page only to find the same old stuff
that's on every other site. My cel gallery is my
unique contribution to the web. Let others do
something else!
3) It's extremely rude to a fellow fan to take the
products of their efforts (scanning, buying cels,
etc.) and use them without permission.
2) Stolen cel images may be fraudulently "sold" on
eBay, Yahoo, or YJ. Several collectors have had
this happen to them, most infamously the owner of
the Nausciaa cel that was extensively discussed on
this forum.
1) Online cel galleries exist because cel owners
want to show their cels to their fellow collectors.
For this to work requires the presumption that I
actually _own_ all the cels displayed in my
gallery. If other people display my cel images in
their galleries, it challenges my ownership.
On the specific question of fancels--I really
prefer fancels made from original artwork. If
fancels are made from a cel in someone's gallery
for any use other than totally private enjoyment I
think it would be very rude not to ask the gallery
owner's permission. Otherwise, if the fancel is
displayed it violates my reasons 3 & 4, and if it's
sold to the wrong person it could violate 1 & 2.
Fancels made from screencaps that just happen to
match people's cels won't look the same, because
some of the image will almost certainly be missing.
Of course they should still be signed in such a way
that they can't easily be resold as real if they
fall into the wrong hands.
To the original poster--if you don't know where a
client's image came from, you could always ask
them....
--Atiya
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