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In my case... (Wed Sep 11 21:15:42 2002 )
gai [View profile ]
http://www.angelfire.com/la/kokowawestwood/cels/
gai@hot-shot.com

I only have a sales page (at times with a good 
third of my collection on sale), since I don't 
have the time nor energy to post a full 
gallery...

But after hearing a few of the stories above 
about the grief some web masters received 
because of their online galleries, I can 
sympathize greatly.

Even when I first posted my sales page, and it 
was my first time ever creating one... some 
really immature and nasty person proceeded to 
berate me on the JACML mailing list accusing me 
of stealing a GIF from her site, although:

[1] The image was not even of a cel belonging to 
this person; it was just an artbook image from a 
copyrighted anime (Ranma 1/2) and belonged to 
the official license holder (Viz), and therefore 
she had no right to call or claim it her own.  
Just because she made an animated GIF directly 
off copyrighted art still shouldn't grant her 
rights over that copyrighted image.

(And c'mon; it was just a GIF...)

[2] Someone supplied me that GIF and even they 
didn't know where it originally came from; so I 
was accused of image-stealing based upon false 
assumption and didn't even get a chance to 
defend nor explain myself.

[3] Worst of all, I was apalled by the lack of 
maturity on the part of angry person.  She 
should've e-mailed me in private and allowed us 
to handle this very minor (and EASILY 
correctable) issue as adults rather than make 
false assumptions and try to smear me on a 
public mailing list.

I immediately apologized for my "mistake" (which 
turned out that I didn't really have anything to 
be at fault for) and fixed the so-
called "problem".  Nevertheless, I was a little 
nervous that others already formed a bad 
impression of me over something I had no control 
over.

In the end, though, I was very thankful that 
practically the entire JACML list supported my 
side of the debate.  Ultimately, the person who 
chewed me out got some of her own medicine.  In 
fact, the unwarranted display of protest did not 
endear herself to a lot of people on JACML, I 
would imagine.

People who have dealt with me know that I am a 
very easy-going guy who is willing to go the 
extra mile for them.  As an example, for people 
who bought cels for me, I've tried to add extra 
goodies to their cel packages whenever I could + 
I offered to e-mail scans and thumbnails of the 
cels they bought from me.  And I do my best to 
resolve any difficulties or problems that may 
pop up.

But nonetheless it's really tough to resolve 
problems amiably when you aren't even given the 
chance to do so.



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