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Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 15 Oct 1998.
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Can you see a stereogram?

Can you see a stereogram?

alt.ascii-art · 59 messages · 15 Oct 1998 - 30 Oct 1998
Christian <Chr...@email.in.the.message> ASCII art 15 Oct 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
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Colin Douthwaite <cfb...@southern.co.nz> ASCII art 16 Oct 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
Christian <Chr...@email.in.the.message> wrote:

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Nope, but I see you have stolen Phillip Kaulfuss's self-portrait and
used it to represent yourself.


From:                    GALLERY of ASCII ARTISTS

                In no particular Order of Merit or Beauty
                                                              4 Sep 98

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Are you his double or his clone?

Actually this must be about the worst case of misrepresentation I
have ever seen in alt.ascii-art.

Whatever next?  :-(


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Henry Segerman <sjo...@sable.ox.ac.uk> ASCII art 16 Oct 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
Christian (Chr...@email.in.the.message) wrote:
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Thats the best ASCII stereogram I've seen by far. The size of the objects 
makes it easy to distinguish the different layers, as does the contrasting
shade. 

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Krogg <kro...@gtcom.net> ASCII art 17 Oct 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
Christian wrote:
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> 
Diddle.........
I know its stupid,but i thought a couple of eyes in the bg would be cool.

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Nate / DAC <nat...@southwind.net> ASCII art 17 Oct 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
I thought that was a pretty good attempt - in fact I found that image a lot
easier to "focus on" than most stereograms from books and the like.  Perhaps
it's because of the "2D or 3D?" text;  that seems to make it easier to
center one's eyes on the "same" image.

Nice 3D effect.

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Chr...@email.in.the.message (Christian) writes:
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Yep, I can see it - the columns are in the background, 
and behind them are the peaky things, while the tombstoney
things are right at the front. Nice! 

-Hayley

Sarah Day <med...@micron.net> ASCII art 18 Oct 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
Woah...majorly cool!
    -Sarah

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I always see in stereo...... It helps if you use a jug
of Willy Treat's three sixes --- then you'll see in
stereo, too.

JRO
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P F Applewhite <ma...@c.a> ASCII art 20 Oct 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
Thought I'd diddle a bit of curvature in there...




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...hmmmmm, limited success...


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Explanation of sig        
for the mentally            \////   
challenged...               ( oO)  <= Face
                          ./'-._            Paul Applewhite
             hand =>  .oO( /'-. |      
      motorcycle =>      | '-.| )Oo.        Sheffield University
                        =|'-._ /     
                         \/</_/=          ELP96PFA_AT_Sheffield_DOT_ac_DOT_uk
              wheel =>   />/   
                         ''

Lester5374 <les...@aol.commander> ASCII art 20 Oct 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
>From: P F Applewhite <man@c.a>

     Now the curvature meshes with the mountains in the background. It should
be bolder so you can better distinguish between the two.

>Thought I'd diddle a bit of curvature in there...
>
>
>
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>     ''''''                                                ''''''      DR J


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Ojosh!ro <ojo...@lunatech.com> ASCII art 20 Oct 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
Explanation of sig
for the                     \////
challenged...               ( oO)  <= Head
                          ./'-._ 
             Paw1 =>  .oO( /'-. |
                         | '-.| )Oo. <= Paw2
               Paw3=>   =|'-._ /    <= Bellyside up.
                         \/</_/=   <= Paw 4
               Tail =>   />/
                         ''

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> Explanation of sig
> for the                     \////
> challenged...               ( oO)  <= Head
>                           ./'-._
>              Paw1 =>  .oO( /'-. |
>                          | '-.| )Oo. <= Paw2
>                Paw3=>   =|'-._ /    <= Bellyside up.
>                          \/</_/=   <= Paw 4
>                Tail =>   />/
>                          ''

I thought this was a guy on a motorcycle?
    -Sarah

On 23 Oct 1998, Colin Douthwaite wrote:

> Sarah Day <med...@micron.net> wrote:
> >> Explanation of sig
> >> for the                     \////
> >> challenged...               ( oO)  <= Head
> >>                           ./'-._
> >>              Paw1 =>  .oO( /'-. |
> >>                          | '-.| )Oo. <= Paw2
> >>                Paw3=>   =|'-._ /    <= Bellyside up.
> >>                          \/</_/=   <= Paw 4
> >>                Tail =>   />/
> >>                          ''
> 
> >I thought this was a guy on a motorcycle?
> >    -Sarah
> 
> Did you?  Did You Really?  Well you thought wrong again just one more time. 
> Why do you keep making so many mistakes about pictures?

Colin, you are starting to sound like Pete.  Please stop giving false
information or at least put a smiley at the end of your false explanation
of the picture.  I am sorry if you genuinely think it is some kind of
animal, but it _IS_ a bloke on a motorbike or scooter (presumably leaning
into a corner or a little bit tipsy).

Taraa,

Phil

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Colin Douthwaite <cfb...@southern.co.nz> ASCII art 23 Oct 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
Phil <ccx...@coventry.ac.uk> wrote:
>On 23 Oct 1998, Colin Douthwaite wrote:

>> Sarah Day <med...@micron.net> wrote:
>> >> Explanation of sig
>> >> for the                     \////
>> >> challenged...               ( oO)  <= Head
>> >>                           ./'-._
>> >>              Paw1 =>  .oO( /'-. |
>> >>                          | '-.| )Oo. <= Paw2
>> >>                Paw3=>   =|'-._ /    <= Bellyside up.
>> >>                          \/</_/=   <= Paw 4
>> >>                Tail =>   />/
>> >>                          ''
>> 
>> >I thought this was a guy on a motorcycle?
>> >    -Sarah
>> 
>> Did you?  Did You Really?  Well you thought wrong again just one more time. 
>> Why do you keep making so many mistakes about pictures?

>Colin, you are starting to sound like Pete.  Please stop giving false
>information or at least put a smiley at the end of your false explanation
>of the picture.  

Gee, Just when I had begun to think no one would ever notice. The
message(s) is getting through at last?  Whoopdedoo!

Sarah Day doesn't like smileys...remember?  She doesn't think they
make up for all my insults...and...just for once...she's prolly right.

As for that picture...it's an Applewhite monstrosity...Bleah!
maybe he's done his very best with that picture but he is much better
when flaming me in pure ascii text..."sans pics".


ObAScii:

============================================================================

                         LADY GODIVA   -   1067 A.D.

============================================================================


      " Then she rode back clothed on with chastity.
         She took the tax away and built herself an everlasting name. "

                                                           - Tennyson

============================================================================



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Toodlepip,

Phil wrote in message ...
>On 23 Oct 1998, Colin Douthwaite wrote:
>
>> Sarah Day <med...@micron.net> wrote:
>> >> Explanation of sig
>> >> for the                     \////
>> >> challenged...               ( oO)  <= Head
>> >>                           ./'-._
>> >>              Paw1 =>  .oO( /'-. |
>> >>                          | '-.| )Oo. <= Paw2
>> >>                Paw3=>   =|'-._ /    <= Bellyside up.
>> >>                          \/</_/=   <= Paw 4
>> >>                Tail =>   />/
>> >>                          ''
>>
>> >I thought this was a guy on a motorcycle?
>> >    -Sarah
>>
>> Did you?  Did You Really?  Well you thought wrong again just one more time.
>> Why do you keep making so many mistakes about pictures?
>
>Colin, you are starting to sound like Pete.  Please stop giving false
>information or at least put a smiley at the end of your false explanation
>of the picture.  I am sorry if you genuinely think it is some kind of
>animal, but it _IS_ a bloke on a motorbike or scooter (presumably leaning
>into a corner or a little bit tipsy).
>
>Taraa,
>
>Phil


You know, no offense intended, but I kind of thought it was some
kind of bird, myself.  I guess I missed the first part of the
thread.  Seems like an awful lot to say about one picture, though.

JRO

Sarah Day wrote:
> Some unknown person whose name Sarah snipped from her post wrote:
> >
> > Explanation of sig
> > for the                     \////
> > challenged...               ( oO)  <= Head
> >                           ./'-._
> >              Paw1 =>  .oO( /'-. |
> >                          | '-.| )Oo. <= Paw2
> >                Paw3=>   =|'-._ /    <= Bellyside up.
> >                          \/</_/=   <= Paw 4
> >                Tail =>   />/
> >                          ''
> 
> I thought this was a guy on a motorcycle?

So did I.


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   `  ascii art chat: http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/cgi/asciichat/   '

Sarah Day <med...@micron.net> wrote:
>> Explanation of sig
>> for the                     \////
>> challenged...               ( oO)  <= Head
>>                           ./'-._
>>              Paw1 =>  .oO( /'-. |
>>                          | '-.| )Oo. <= Paw2
>>                Paw3=>   =|'-._ /    <= Bellyside up.
>>                          \/</_/=   <= Paw 4
>>                Tail =>   />/
>>                          ''

>I thought this was a guy on a motorcycle?
>    -Sarah

Did you?  Did You Really?  Well you thought wrong again just one more time. 
Why do you keep making so many mistakes about pictures?

And...guess what...you failed to identify whose posting you were 
actually replying to...again!  

But that will not happen ever again will it?  

Never happened before did it?  

Nobody ever pointed it out to you before did they?

Nah!  but if it does happen to happen again it will all be the fault 
of that damn stupid computer you are being compelled to use.  

HooRoo,

Pete Casso <pet...@sympatico.ca> ASCII art 24 Oct 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
Hilton Janfield wrote:
> Warning! Warning! Hilstein has returned from the dead yet again! :)

Welcome back, Hilstein!

> So what have I missed in the past year or so?

Just a few things. Colin had a love affair with a certain Tweeter who flamed
me, but who left after only a few days, although I did not do much on or off
the newsgroup. Thereupon, Colin set the world record of 41 flames a day. We
are all very proud that he accomplished this remarkable feat right here on aaa.

> You still doing those F&B cartoons at all?

Yes, but I follow my own bursts of productivity. Or sometimes I comment with a
pic rather than with words. Anyway, here is one, Colin violated copyrights by
posting a maliciously defaced version.

=========================================================================
[]  The 'steins - Spicy Food                                           []
[]  Copyright 981003 Pete Casso Revision 981004                        []
[]                                                                     []
[]                          )  (                                       []
[]              )  (       ((oo))                                      []
[]    )   (    ((oo))     (\( C)/)       I told you not to eat at      []
[]   ((o.o))    ( C)       ( :)           that oriental restaurant!    []
[]    ( C )     (>:)>      ^^              Their food is very spicy!   []
[]    (>:<)      ^^       ^^                \                          []
[]     ^ ^       ^^       ^^                  oo.                      []
[]     ^ ^       ^^                          (-  )                     []
[]     ^ ^       ^^                           " "                      []
=========================================================================

=========================================================
[]   .oo     Visit the Gallery of the 'steins!         []
[]  (  -)   http://www3.sympatico.ca/petecasso/        []
[]   " "   Frogstein, who has a point behind his eyes  []
=========================================================

> Hilton Janfield wrote:
> > Warning! Warning! Hilstein has returned from the dead yet again! :)
> 
> Welcome back, Hilstein!


Glad to be back!

> > So what have I missed in the past year or so?
> 
> Just a few things. Colin had a love affair with a certain Tweeter who flamed
> me, but who left after only a few days, although I did not do much on or off
> the newsgroup. Thereupon, Colin set the world record of 41 flames a day. We
> are all very proud that he accomplished this remarkable feat right here on aaa.

Looking at some back messages, I think I'm going to get as sick of Colin
as I did of the Casso wars and the Kitty wars that made me leave last
time... <G>

--
Hilton Janfield    valdus @ bcgroup.net   ICQ: 7107014   darkfire
productions

Seems to me the basic conflict between men and women, sexually, is that
men are like firemen.  To men, sex is an emergency, and no matter what
we're doing we can be ready in two minutes.  Women, on the other hand,
are like fire.  They're very exciting, but the conditions have to be
exactly right for it to occur.

> Colin, you are starting to sound like Pete.  Please stop giving false

Thanks for the honor, but Colin is an original.

=========================================================
[]   .oo     Visit the Gallery of the 'steins!         []
[]  (  -)   http://www3.sympatico.ca/petecasso/        []
[]   " "   Frogstein, who has a point behind his eyes  []
=========================================================

> =========================================================
> []   .oo     Visit the Gallery of the 'steins!         []
> []  (  -)   http://www3.sympatico.ca/petecasso/        []
> []   " "   Frogstein, who has a point behind his eyes  []
> =========================================================

Warning! Warning! Hilstein has returned from the dead yet again! :)

So what have I missed in the past year or so? You still doing those F&B
cartoons at all?

--
Hilton Janfield     valdus @ bcgroup.net    ICQ: 7107014
- Seriously needing to add some life back into his sig -

Colin Douthwaite <cfb...@southern.co.nz> ASCII art 24 Oct 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
Hilton Janfield <val...@bcgroup.net> wrote:
>> =========================================================
>> []   .oo     Visit the Gallery of the 'steins!         []
>> []  (  -)   http://www3.sympatico.ca/petecasso/        []
>> []   " "   Frogstein, who has a point behind his eyes  []
>> =========================================================

>Warning! Warning! Hilstein has returned from the dead yet again! :)

>So what have I missed in the past year or so? You still doing those F&B
>cartoons at all?


If you are, by some misfortune, a Cassophile rather than a 
Cassophobe then you have just missed out on the umpteenth outbreak
of the Stein Wars which erupted in mid-September and which so far 
has produced more than 1.65 Mb of messages.

Would you like me to email the 1.65Mb?  Or perhaps repost it all 
here in alt.ascii-art?

If not, then I suggest you help yourself to some good laughs by 
looking up the contributions of the poster "Tweeter" in "alt.ascii-
art" in DejaNews www.dejanews.com.


Here are a couple of snippets of Tweeter's postings to whet your 
appetite.  Bon Appetit:


========================================================================

From: Twe...@the.speaker (Tweeter)
Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
Subject: I just discovered this group last night - I missed 5 very
         good years!
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 15:39:18 GMT
Message-ID: <53C7A62F415A9EF5.65671FA44A2CBE63.583EC51087E1C473@
             library-proxy.airnews.net>
X-Orig-Message-ID: <361...@library.airnews.net>

[...snip...]

This Pete Casso is obviously a complete twit, and I developed this
opinion very early on, even before I came to the copyright forging and
tantrum pitching.  His was one of the first http links I followed, and
he woke up my husband, who is in complete agreement with me that it
takes a twit to incorporate a midi into a web page without a stop
button.  And to make it autorepeat at that!  His "steins" are dull;
far from the "Supreme ascii art Magic!" he touts them to be.  And the
wand-waving wizard on his front page was "borrowed" from Gregory Braun
(http://www.execpc.com/~sbd/index.html), a Windows platform shareware
author. "Enfant terrible" - does that translate to "spoiled brat"?
Agent users - the solution is fast and easy - CTRL-K!

[...snip...]

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

From: Twe...@the.speaker (Tweeter)
Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
Subject: Re: The 'steins - Spicy Food
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 16:07:11 GMT
Message-ID: <2445CAE3AD753C57.2EE58305F6347D8F.6E00B9A7512A3054
             @library-proxy.airnews.net>
On or aboutSat, 03 Oct 1998 23:41:18 GMT, Pete Casso
<pet...@sympatico.ca> said somethin' like

>>  Well, after warding off the asciigangsteins, here is what I like best,
>>  cartooning! Hope you like it!
>>
>>=========================================================================
>>[]  The 'stinks - Spite Fest                                           []
>>[]  Copyright 981003 Pete Casshole                                     []
>>[]                                                                     []
>>[]                          )  (                                       []
>>[]              )  (       ((oo))                                      []
>>[]    )   (    ((oo))     (\( C)/)       I told you it's ok to         []
>>[]   ((o.o))    ( C)       ( :)           diddle my priceless "art"    []
>>[]    ( C )     (>:)>      ^^              so jump with joy!!          []
>>[]    (>:<)      ^^                         \                          []
>>[]     ^ ^       ^^                           oo.                      []
>>[]     ^ ^       ^^                          (-  )                     []
>>[]     ^ ^       ^^                           " "                      []
>>=========================================================================
>>
>>  =========================================================
>>  []   .oo     Visit the Gallery of the 'steins!         []
>>  []  (  -)   http://www3.sympatico.ca/petecasso/        []
>>  []   " "   Frogstein, who has a point behind his eyes  []
>>  =========================================================

Permission to desecrate this twit's "intellectual property" granted in
Message-ID: <361...@sympatico.ca>

Tweeter
Just one little speaker

===========================================================================


Toodles,

Colin Douthwaite wrote:
> 
> Pete Casso <pet...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> >Colin, copyright exists from the moment the work is created, it does NOT have
> >to be registered. Also, the fair use clause of copyright law has no provision
> >for malicious defacing. I gave nobody the permission to post maliciously
> >defaced versions of my work. Diddling my work does not give anyone copyrights either.
> 
> >Read up on the copyright info that Krogg posted or read a good book about it,
> >you are becoming consistent in your copyright violations.


I see you haven't done your copyright reading yet.

> Oh phooey...
> 
> By your own definitions of copyright...
> 
> - the actual diddles people make/have made of your work become those
>   diddler's copyrights as soon as they compose and post their message.

That's not correct, you misunderstood my words. Correct is that the creator
owns the copyright, not the diddler. And that's not my definition, that's
copyright law.


> - Usenet rules allow reposting of any part of messages posted to
>   newsgroups so your very own messages can be reposted during
>   quoting and responses to those messages.
> 
> But in any case...you waived diddling, and even diddling of modified
> reposts ( see your Message-ID: <361...@sympatico.ca> )
> in all of the following postings of yours:

I welcome diddles, I did not waive malicious defacing.

In your reading, pay attention to the fair use clause which is the basis for
reposting, quoting, diddling, etc. Convince yourself that there is no
provision for malicious defacing.

If you do not want to spend time surfing the net and do not have access to a
library, ask the NZ Copyright Office for an information booklet, you should
get it for free. I double checked, NZ is signatory of the Berne Convention.

=========================================================
[]   .oo     Visit the Gallery of the 'steins!         []
[]  (  -)   http://www3.sympatico.ca/petecasso/        []
[]   " "   Frogstein, who has a point behind his eyes  []
=========================================================

Martin DiViaio wrote:
> 
> Isn't there some need for profit from using a piece of copyrighted
> material before it can be called a copyright violation?

Posting malicious defacings constitute copyright violations, even if there is
no money involved.

> One thing I do know about copyright law is that it would be impossible
> for Mr. Casso to copyright the Stein characters. The cartoons mabye but
> not the characters. Simply because the characters are too small and made
> up of too few ASCII characters.

There are no requirement on size or number of characters. There are
requirements on originality, recognizability, uniqueness. Look at other
cartoon characters which are made of a few pencil strokes, the fewer the
better in fact.

=========================================================
[]   .oo     Visit the Gallery of the 'steins!         []
[]  (  -)   http://www3.sympatico.ca/petecasso/        []
[]   " "   Frogstein, who has a point behind his eyes  []
=========================================================

Ilmari Karonen <ilt...@sci.fi> ASCII art 25 Oct 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
Martin Atkins (zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz) wrote:
:      |||||     |||||
:     |  o o|   |o o  |
:     | >   |   |   > |
:     | \_/ |   | \_/ |
:      \___/     \___/  mga
: I see these things backwards, so I don`t know if this works. The nose should
: stick out and the eyes stick in. :o)

It doesn't really - too much depth in a too small space. The outline and
the mouth, making up most of the picture, lock together with whichever
eye is in the middle, making it look as if you had two noses and three
eyes. =)

Incidentally, very much the same effect can be seen by standing in front
of a mirror (or staring somebody in the face) and crossing your eyes
until two of the eyes you're seeing blend together. The mind locks on to
one superficial similarity (A human eye is pretty symmetrical, so the
left and the right one look much the same.) and tries to blend the rest
of the two contradicting views together, creating quite an interesting
"cyclopean" effect.

-- 
ii 3D .sigXIlmari KaronenAscii 3D .sigIlmari Karonen_Ascii 3D .sigIlmari Kar
fi....@graphic.iltzu@sci.fi.stereo@gra...@sci.fin.stereo@graphicilt
ltzu/ba/http://www.sci.fi/~iltzu/bahttp://www.sci.fi/~iltzu/1bahttp://www.sc
 is a stereogram!><This .sig is a stereogram!><This .sig is a stereogram!><T

Pete Casso <pet...@sympatico.ca> wrote:


> I welcome diddles, I did not waive malicious defacing.


And here, once again, is the posting which gives the lie to your
statement above. 

In the following posting you were clearly referring to Tweeter's 
modified reposts and note that you say "...they become even more 
enjoyable that way!" ( And there I DO agree with you. HeHeHe ). 

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Message-ID: <361...@sympatico.ca>
From: Pete Casso <pet...@sympatico.ca>
Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
Subject: Re: The 'steins - The Eulogy
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 23:14:53 GMT


In the mean time, my cartoons are being reposted without any effort
on my part, although these reposts have been modified with a
psychotic nuance  ;-)) Perhaps they become even more enjoyable that way!

-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Is there no end to your continuing blatant falsehoods and 
prevarications Mr. Casso?  It seems not.  Ho hum! <YAWN>


You have in fact waived any possible copyright claims you may ever
possibly have had by your own postings which I have already posted 
in the last 2 days so I won't repeat them here and now (later if 
necessary...and, regrettably, I'm sure it will be necessary.)  


Heard anything from Tweeter yet in your emails?  

Or from those snooper friends of yours who frequent the Mailing Lists?

Got that piece of paper for Ojo yet?


Catch you later, Alligator,

Martin DiViaio <mar...@erols.com> ASCII art 25 Oct 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
Pete Casso wrote:
> 
> Martin DiViaio wrote:
> >
> > Isn't there some need for profit from using a piece of copyrighted
> > material before it can be called a copyright violation?
> 
> Posting malicious defacings constitute copyright violations, even if there is
> no money involved.
> 

Mabye, but you must be able to prove that the malicious defacings caused
you some sort of loss. 

> > One thing I do know about copyright law is that it would be impossible
> > for Mr. Casso to copyright the Stein characters. The cartoons mabye but
> > not the characters. Simply because the characters are too small and made
> > up of too few ASCII characters.
> 
> There are no requirement on size or number of characters. There are
> requirements on originality, recognizability, uniqueness. Look at other
> cartoon characters which are made of a few pencil strokes, the fewer the
> better in fact.

I think you are talking about a trademark, not a copyright. Many of the
characters you are talking about are not copyrighted. The cartoons they
apear in are but the characters themselves are trademarks of the various
authors.

You are also forgeting the self limiting nature of ascii art when you
get down to the extreme small sizes. For instance, try drawing a circle
with no more than 5 ascii characters (not including spaces.) You will
find only a few ways of doing it and wouldn't be able to copyright it.

You may be right on the uniqueness part but (again) I think you are
talking about trademarks not copyrights.

-- 
                    /)-._    | It may be better to be a live jackal than
                   Y. ' _]   | a dead lion, but it is better still to be
            ,.._   |`--"=    | a live lion. And usually easier
           /    "-/  `.\     |
  /)  sk  |   |_     `\|___  | - Lazarus Long, A fictional character
  \:::::::\___/_\__\_______\ |   created by Robert Heinlein

sgt pinback <rob...@project.darkstar> ASCII art 25 Oct 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
On 25 Oct 1998, Ilmari Karonen wrote:

> Martin Atkins (zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz) wrote:
> :      |||||     |||||
> :     |  o o|   |o o  |
> :     | >   |   |   > |
> :     | \_/ |   | \_/ |
> :      \___/     \___/  mga
> : I see these things backwards, so I don`t know if this works. The nose should
> : stick out and the eyes stick in. :o)
> 
> It doesn't really - too much depth in a too small space. The outline and
> the mouth, making up most of the picture, lock together with whichever
> eye is in the middle, making it look as if you had two noses and three
> eyes. =)
maybe this is better?

     |||||     |||||
    | o o |   |o o  |
    |  >  |   |   > |
    | \_/ |   | \_/ |
     \___/     \___/  mga

oh, btw martin, the was sort of an 'ascii windows' --quarterdeck's desqview. 
it's no longer supported or marketed tho. if you can find a used copy cheap
it's worth a look. runs on 8088 & up. task swithing on a <286, multitasks 
on a 386 or better, does something between on a 286 :)

   _________________
  |.------. ... .-. |
  ||      | ||| | | |  <-8088 compaq `luggable', 35 pounds of raw
 |||      | |d| | | ||   computing power that i used to run desqview
 |||______| ||| |_| ||   on until some fool stole it last year.
 |@================='|
 |@__________________|
  @@@
    @|""-""""""""""""""|
     `-----------------'
my address: (rot13) cva...@qnegzbhgu.rqh

Colin Douthwaite <cfb...@southern.co.nz> ASCII art 25 Oct 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
Pete Casso <pet...@sympatico.ca> wrote:

> Yes, but I follow my own bursts of productivity. Or sometimes I
> comment with a pic rather than with words.

BwaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa!  ROTFLMAO.

Please stop Mr.C ...all this laughing and rolling is actually painful.


> Anyway, here is one, Colin violated copyrights by posting a
> maliciously defaced version.

[...snip...]

[...Tweeter's diddled version repeated below...]


Oh dear...caught again in your own falsehoods Mr.Casso:

You missed off Tweeter's authorisation reference about reposts.


I reposted a Tweeter article pointing out your authorisation...here
it is again:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

From: Twe...@the.speaker (Tweeter)
Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
Subject: Re: The 'steins - Spicy Food
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 16:07:11 GMT
Message-ID: <2445CAE3AD753C57.2EE58305F6347D8F.6E00B9A7512A3054
             @library-proxy.airnews.net>
On or aboutSat, 03 Oct 1998 23:41:18 GMT, Pete Casso
<pet...@sympatico.ca> said somethin' like

>>  Well, after warding off the asciigangsteins, here is what I like best,
>>  cartooning! Hope you like it!
>>
>>=========================================================================
>>[]  The 'stinks - Spite Fest                                           []
>>[]  Copyright 981003 Pete Casshole                                     []
>>[]                                                                     []
>>[]                          )  (                                       []
>>[]              )  (       ((oo))                                      []
>>[]    )   (    ((oo))     (\( C)/)       I told you it's ok to         []
>>[]   ((o.o))    ( C)       ( :)           diddle my priceless "art"    []
>>[]    ( C )     (>:)>      ^^              so jump with joy!!          []
>>[]    (>:<)      ^^                         \                          []
>>[]     ^ ^       ^^                           oo.                      []
>>[]     ^ ^       ^^                          (-  )                     []
>>[]     ^ ^       ^^                           " "                      []
>>=========================================================================
>>
>>  =========================================================
>>  []   .oo     Visit the Gallery of the 'steins!         []
>>  []  (  -)   http://www3.sympatico.ca/petecasso/        []
>>  []   " "   Frogstein, who has a point behind his eyes  []
>>  =========================================================

Permission to desecrate this twit's "intellectual property" granted in
Message-ID: <361...@sympatico.ca>

Tweeter
Just one little speaker

===========================================================================


Note carefully Tweeter's final paragraph:

> Permission to desecrate this twit's "intellectual property"
> granted in Message-ID: <361...@sympatico.ca>


Hmm...perhaps you were thinking of Tweeter's copyrights?  They only
applied later to her own parodies "The Stinks".  The Message-ID
Tweeter referenced was one of your messages.


Here are some further authorisations Tweeter attached to her postings:

-----------------------------------------------------------

Permission to desecrate this twit's "Intellectual (snicker giggle)
Property" granted in Message-ID: <361...@sympatico.ca>

Tweeter
Just one little speaker


Permission to desecrate this twit's "Intellectual (I'm trying not to
laugh, honest) Property" granted in
Message-ID: <361...@sympatico.ca>

Tweeter
Just one little speaker


Permission to desecrate this twit's "Intellectual (tee hee try to keep
a straight face) Property" granted in
Message-ID: <361...@sympatico.ca>

Tweeter
Just one little speaker


Permission to desecrate this twit's "Intellectual (try not to pee your
pants) Property" granted in
Message-ID: <361...@sympatico.ca>

Tweeter
Just one little speaker


Look how Pete Casshole diddles other people's art...  And gives
permission to diddle his!
Message-ID: <361...@sympatico.ca>

Tweeter
Just one little speaker

-----------------------------------------------------------


So...crawl back into your STF ( Sucking Toothless Frogpond ) Mr.
Casso.

I reposted Tweeter's messages (not yours) complete with your
authorisation granting the rights to diddle your postings.

Get it right, Casso!


As for your copyright:

In Message-ID: <362...@sympatico.ca> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998
From: Pete Casso <pet...@sympatico.ca>
Pete Casso wrote:

In response to Ojo's request...

OJO> Show me that piece of paper.

PC> Here, I hold it up on the screen, do you see it?


          :================:
         /||              ||
        / ||              ||
       |  ||              ||
        \ ||              ||
          ==================
               /      \
             ############


A blank screen?   BwaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa!

 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!  VERY BLOODY FUNNY!



                                                   -----
                                                 /      \
                                                 )      |
          :==================:                    "    )/
         /||   Waiting on   ||                    )_ /*
        / ||                ||                        *
       |  ||  Casso's paper ||                 (=====~*~======)
        \ ||  to appear!    ||                0      \ /       0
          ====================              //   (====*====)   ||
   ............. /      \ ..........       //         *         ||
   :\          ############          \    ||    (=====*======)  ||
   : ---------------------------------     V          *          V
   : |  *   |__________|| ::::::::::  |    o   (======*=======) o
   \ |      |          ||   .......   |    \\         *         ||
     --------------------------------- 8   ||   (=====*======)  //
                                        8   V         *         V
     --------------------------------- 8   =|=;  (==/ * \==)   =|=
     \   ###########################  \   / ! \     _ * __    / | \
      \  +++++++++++++++++++++++++++   \  ! !  !  (__/ \__)  !  !  !
       \ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++   \        0 \ \V/ / 0
        \________________________________\     ()   \o o/   ()
         *********************************     ()           ()

                                       -After/Targon (Ed Wisniewski)-

Toothlessly,

Colin, copyright exists from the moment the work is created, it does NOT have
to be registered. Also, the fair use clause of copyright law has no provision
for malicious defacing. I gave nobody the permission to post maliciously
defaced versions of my work. Diddling my work does not give anyone copyrights either.

Read up on the copyright info that Krogg posted or read a good book about it,
you are becoming consistent in your copyright violations.

=========================================================
[]   .oo     Visit the Gallery of the 'steins!         []
[]  (  -)   http://www3.sympatico.ca/petecasso/        []
[]   " "   Frogstein, who has a point behind his eyes  []
=========================================================

Colin Douthwaite <cfb...@southern.co.nz> ASCII art 25 Oct 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
Pete Casso <pet...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>Colin, copyright exists from the moment the work is created, it does NOT have
>to be registered. Also, the fair use clause of copyright law has no provision
>for malicious defacing. I gave nobody the permission to post maliciously
>defaced versions of my work. Diddling my work does not give anyone copyrights either.

>Read up on the copyright info that Krogg posted or read a good book about it,
>you are becoming consistent in your copyright violations.


Oh phooey...

By your own definitions of copyright...

- the actual diddles people make/have made of your work become those
  diddler's copyrights as soon as they compose and post their message.

- Usenet rules allow reposting of any part of messages posted to
  newsgroups so your very own messages can be reposted during
  quoting and responses to those messages.


But in any case...you waived diddling, and even diddling of modified
reposts ( see your Message-ID: <361...@sympatico.ca> )
in all of the following postings of yours:

--------------------------------------------------------------------

Message-ID: <361...@sympatico.ca>
Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
Subject: Re: Verbal Diarrhoea [General Mayhem](Philip Powel)
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 22:49:32 GMT

Generally speaking, I have no objections people playing with the
'steins, on the contrary I welcome that, because it helps
propagating the 'steins. But specifically speaking, I can't tolerate
the recent excesses coupled with audacity in denying any copyrights.

--------------------------------------------------------------------

Message-ID: <361...@sympatico.ca>
From: Pete Casso <pet...@sympatico.ca>
Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
Subject: Re: The 'steins - The Eulogy
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 13:21:38 GMT

To Colinstein: Put me on your killfile, nothing more welcome to me
than that!

To the rest of the newsgroup: The request not to repost the 'steins
was addressed to Colinstein specifically. But for the others, I
welcome diddles to the 'steins, I have even created the 'stein awards!

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Message-ID: <361...@sympatico.ca>
From: Pete Casso <pet...@sympatico.ca>
Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
Subject: Re: The 'steins - The Eulogy
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 23:14:53 GMT


In the mean time, my cartoons are being reposted without any effort
on my part, although these reposts have been modified with a
psychotic nuance  ;-)) Perhaps they become even more enjoyable that way!

-------------------------------------------------------------------------

And in response to the following message targeted at me specifically:

> Message-ID: <361...@sympatico.ca>
> From: Pete Casso <pet...@sympatico.ca>
> Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
> Subject: Re: Verbal Diarrhoea
> Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 22:54:51 GMT

> You are becoming too frequent for comfort, my friend.

> Please refrain from using 'stein characters in your composite
> pictures and please refrain from reposting any exhibits involving
> the 'steins.


I replied:
----------------------------------------------------------------
Please refrain from posting copyrighted Stein characters in this
public channel in order to avoid any possibility of them being
reposted or quoted by inexperienced and/or uninformed readers of
this unmoderated newsgroup.

It would also be very advisable to add a footnote to each of your
cartoons, along with its Serial Number, indicating that it is
copyright and should not be posted or reposted in a public channel.

So...please...confine copyrighted Steins to your personal Website
which is a private channel.

Doing so will avert a lot of future misunderstandings and acrimony.
------------------------------------------------------------------


You ignored that response of mine but then went on in your later
postings to authorise reposts, diddles and modifications of your
copyrighted works.


Since you are not the Moderator of this unmoderated newsgroup,
alt.ascii-art, you have no jurisdiction over the group or any person
who posts messages here, or over the contents of those messages. So
your so-called ban on me as an individual is totally out of order.

Your authorisations apply to every Net user.


The rules you apply on your private Website or on a Usenet *.moderated
newsgroup of which you are sole Moderator are a different matter.

So...Mr. Casso please confine your rules and regulations to your own
private Website because they have not place here in this newsgroup
alt.ascii-art.


Your penchant for constantly wriggling and changing rules and
requirements about your postings must come from watching all those
tadpoles wriggling in your ST Frogpond ). Where else?


  " Oh to be a happy little worm, squiggle, squiggle...squiggle,
    squiggle...squirm, squirm, squirm. "

                                                /~~\
  ____                                         /'o  |
.~  | `\             ,-~~~\~-_               ,'  _/'|
`\_/   /'\         /'`\    \  ~,             |     .'
    `,/'  |      ,'_   |   |   |`\          ,'~~\  |
     |   /`:     |  `\ /~~~~\ /   |        ,'    `.'
     | /'  |     |   ,'      `\  /`|      /'\    /
     `|   / \_ _/ `\ |         |'   `----\   |  /'
      `./'  | ~ |   ,'         |    |     |  |/'
       `\   |   /  ,'           `\ /      |/~'
         `\/_ /~ _/               `~------'
             ~~~~
                                                                /~~\
                  ____                                         /'o  |
                .';;|;;\            _,-;;;\;-_               ,'  _/'|
                `\_/;;;/;\         /;;\;;;;\;;;,             |     .'
      -Chev-        `;/;;;|      ,;\;;;|;;;|;;;|;\          ,';;\  |
                     |;;;/;:     |;;;\;/~~~~\;/;;;|        ,;;;;;;.'
                     |;/;;;|     |;;;,'      `\;;/;|      /;\;;;;/
                     `|;;;/;\___/;~\;|         |;;;;;----\;;;|;;/'
                      `;/;;;|;;;|;;;,'         |;;;;|;;;;;|;;|/'
                       `\;;;|;;;/;;,'           `\;/;;;;;;|/~'
                         `\/;;/;;;/               `~------'
                           `~~~~~

Catch you later,

Colin Douthwaite <cfb...@southern.co.nz> ASCII art 25 Oct 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
Hilton Janfield <val...@bcgroup.net> wrote:

>Looking at some back messages, I think I'm going to get as sick of Colin
>as I did of the Casso wars and the Kitty wars that made me leave last
>time... <G>

That's OK,  but please do try not to bang the door when you do leave.


 ~-_                                                              _-
    ~-_                                                        _-~
       ~-_                                                  _-~
          ~-______________________________________________-~
           |                                             |
           |          ___________________________        |
""- __     |         |                           |       |  __---~~~|
""--__~~|  |         |                           |       | |        |
 /  / | |  |         |           O   O           |       | |        |
      | |  |         |                           |       | |  EXIT  |
  /   | |  |         |                           |       | |        |
      | |  |         |          `-----'          |       | |        |
______| |  |         |___________________________|       | |        |
   /  | |  |                                             | |        |
      | |  |           __________________________        | |        |
 / /  | |  |          |           _____          |       | |        |
      | |  |          |           \ o /          |       | |        |
 /    | |  |          |            ~~~           |       | |        |
      | |  |          |            Dux           |       | |        |
__--""__|  |          |                          |       | |        |
__--""     |          |                          |       | |      O |
           |           --------------------------        | |        |
           |               |   __------__   |            | |        |
           |              /  ./  ,.....,  \. \           | |        |
           |            /  ./   .   _   .  \.  \         | |        |
           |          /    /     --   ~~    \   \        | |        |
           |         (     (  ~     ~     _ )    )       | |        |
           |          \     \.   ~_~~_~~  ./    /        | |        |
           |            \     \.________./    /          | |        |
           |_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _\                /_ _ _ _ _ _ | |        |
         ,'                   \.========./                '|.       |
       ,'                     I          I                   '.     |
     ,'                       I          I                     '.   |
   ,'                        /]          [\    -cfbd-            '. |
 ,'                         //            \\                       '.
'                          \\_____________//                         '.


Pip-pip, ( And remember to flush )

Martin Atkins <zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz> ASCII art 25 Oct 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
.----- On Sun, 18 Oct 1998 06:57:19 -0600, Sarah Day posted:
|Woah...majorly cool!
|    -Sarah
|
|�     /^\           /^\           /^\           /^\           /^\
|� ####################################################################
|� ####################################################################
|�  /    ####     /   ####\     /  #### \     / ####  \     /####   \
|�/       ## \__/      ##  \__/     ##   \__/    ##    \__/   ##     \
|�   ____ ##     ____  ##    ____   ##   ____    ##  ____     ## ____
|�  /    \##    /    \ ##   /    \  ##  /    \   ## /    \    ##/    \
|� |  2D  |#   |  2D  |##  |  2D  | ## |  2D  |  ##|  2D  |   #|  2D  |
|� |  or  |#   |  or  |##  |  or  | ## |  or  |  ##|  or  |   #|  or  |
|� |  3D  |#   |  3D  |##  |  3D  | ## |  3D  |  ##|  3D  |   #|  3D  |
|� |  ??  |#   |  ??  |##  |  ??  | ## |  ??  |  ##|  ??  |   #|  ??  |
|� |      |    |      |    |      |    |      |    |      |    |      |
|� --------    --------    --------    --------    --------    --------
|�  \\\\\\\\    \\\\\\\\    \\\\\\\\    \\\\\\\\    \\\\\\\\    \\\\\\\
|�   \\\\\\\\    \\\\\\\\    \\\\\\\\    \\\\\\\\    \\\\\\\\    \\\\\\
|�     \\\\\\      \\\\\\      \\\\\\      \\\\\\      \\\\\\      \\\\
|�                                                                 DR J
|
'----------------------------------

Wow! The gravestones stick out!

:o)

     |||||     |||||
    |  o o|   |o o  |
    | >   |   |   > |
    | \_/ |   | \_/ |
     \___/     \___/  mga

I see these things backwards, so I don`t know if this works. The nose should
stick out and the eyes stick in. :o)


Bye!
|\/| _..__|_o._   /\_|_| o._  _   mart.atkins@--
|  |(_||  |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_>            --bigfoot.com

Martin DiViaio <mar...@erols.com> ASCII art 25 Oct 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
Isn't there some need for profit from using a piece of copyrighted
material before it can be called a copyright violation?

One thing I do know about copyright law is that it would be impossible
for Mr. Casso to copyright the Stein characters. The cartoons mabye but
not the characters. Simply because the characters are too small and made
up of too few ASCII characters.



-- 
                    /)-._    | It may be better to be a live jackal than
                   Y. ' _]   | a dead lion, but it is better still to be
            ,.._   |`--"=    | a live lion. And usually easier
           /    "-/  `.\     |
  /)  sk  |   |_     `\|___  | - Lazarus Long, A fictional character
  \:::::::\___/_\__\_______\ |   created by Robert Heinlein

Krogg <kro...@gtcom.net> wrote:

> Also,i might add,it is perfectly allright to make parodies of any 
> copyrighted material,even if the owner of the copyright doesnt approve. 


Oooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh...thank you, thank you, thank you...you 
have made my day!  :-) :-);-)

Now where are all Casso's cartoons...ah yes, DejaNews...I am soon 
going to be wallowing in "Parodise". HeHeHe. 


> 3.)copyrighted material _may_ be republished without permissiom 
>   for educational purposes,and for other "fair use" purposes.

Ooh goody goody!  I think republishing of some of Tweeter's parodies, 
which are themselves copyrighted, could be very educational for
newcomers to see as soon as they arrive in alt.ascii-art.


Do I suddenly feel a new FAQ coming on...HeHeHe!  :-)

Bye,

joris bellenger <svz...@xs4all.nl> ASCII art 26 Oct 1998 00:00 · permalink · report

Krogg wrote:

> 7.)I am your god and you must send me money,or i will be poor.
>
>



       - God did forget to put a copyright in His book -


                     nobody's perfect!
                   HHHAAAAAaaaaaahaha ha ha...
                               ha ha ha...
                     (\___/)       ha ha haaaaa...
                     \ (= =)
                     c\   >'
                       )D_/
                   ___/ /___
                  /_ `  ~   )
                 / /\ . ' .)|
                 #(  \   , '/
                  )\ ;;,,;,;
                _( /,#;,;;,;,
                 //,i;;;,,;#,;
                  (( %;;,;,;;,;
                   )) ;#;,;%;;,,
                 _//  ;,;; ,#;,
                /_/   #,;    ))
                      )/     \|_
                     /|       |#\
                     )#\       -"  b'ger
                      -"

--

          `,
       ,\, #
       |/  ?
       | ~ )\
       /_ /\ \____  joris bellenger (b'ger)
       /   \_/    \ e-mail: svz...@xs4all.nl
http://www.xs4all.nl/~svzanten/joris/ascii/main.html
     / < ______ _> \
    /___/  ,___/____)
        |\/

Pete Casso <pet...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>Colin Douthwaite wrote:
>> 
>> Pete Casso <pet...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>> 
>> > I welcome diddles, I did not waive malicious defacing.
>> 
>> And here, once again, is the posting which gives the lie to your
>> statement above.

>Colin, disregarding your hate messages and only referring to the above, I did
>NOT say anything along the lines of: "I waive malicious defacing of my work" 
>Or to formulate it positively, I do NOT wave malicious defacing of my work.

>I have put in more than reasonable effort to explain this in no uncertain
>terms to you. I won't put more effort into explaining, I will treat posting of
>malicious defacings as copyright violations.

Exactly...you've changed your rules, regulations and requirements
yet again and for the umpteenth time. 

Go away Mr. Casso, to your Private Website where you are entitled
to write and apply whatever rules you like...but not here in this
unmoderated newsgroup, alt.ascii-art.


You have in fact never explained anything, at any time, with any 
credibility, veracity or reliability.  

All you have done is wriggle; prevaricate; play games; change your 
tune; post deliberate falsehoods about what you have written in past 
messages and when those measures failed, issued distorted newsgroup 
FAQs with forged signatures and stripped and renamed the authors on 
a whole list of pictures from different people - in fact you have 
done everything possible to disgrace  and discredit yourself in this 
public unmoderated newsgroup.  

So this time, in these "Stein Wars", you went much too far in your 
excessive behaviour and activities and you are now reaping your just 
rewards for having done so. 

And you still continue to earn those just rewards - so they will be 
duly, and abundantly, bestowed upon you.  


Other users of this newsgroup, alt.ascii-art, have tried many times 
to reason and argue with you and have simply found it quite 
impossible to conduct or maintain any cogent discussions with you.  

I am not issuing _hate_ messages to you...rather, I am exposing (in the 
strongest possible terms in the hope that they will reach you...and 
I think they do) your continuing falsehoods with respect to your 
previous public postings and I will continue to do so as when it 
seems necessary.  


Now to get back to current specifics...your agreement with Tweeter's
parodies...


For the third time in 2 days let us examine your posting below:

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Message-ID: <361...@sympatico.ca>
From: Pete Casso <pet...@sympatico.ca>
Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
Subject: Re: The 'steins - The Eulogy
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 23:14:53 GMT


In the mean time, my cartoons are being reposted without any effort
on my part, although these reposts have been modified with a
psychotic nuance  ;-)) Perhaps they become even more enjoyable that way!

-------------------------------------------------------------------------

There can be no reasonable doubt that you are saying in that message 
that even though your cartoons ( allegedly copyrighted ) are being 
modified and reposted, that you consider those reposts are a good 
thing, viz 

   " Perhaps they become even more enjoyable that way!"
                         ^^^^ ^^^^
 " although these reposts have been modified with a psychotic nuance"

If that is not approval by you, then nothing is...unless it was a 
psychotic response of yours to some hilarious parodies which had 
many newsgroup readers giggling, because they were indeed finding 
them even more enyoyable than you found them.


> I hope you save both of us a lot of trouble.  

I, and others, have hoped for a very long time that _YOU_ would save us 
all a lot of trouble but that is quite clearly not to be since you
are way beyond reason for reasons that are beyond me...and others.

Hopelessly,

Lester5374 <les...@aol.commander> ASCII art 26 Oct 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
>From: ilt...@sci.fi (Ilmari Karonen)

>Martin Atkins (zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz) wrote:
>:      |||||     |||||
>:     |  o o|   |o o  |
>:     | >   |   |   > |
>:     | \_/ |   | \_/ |
>:      \___/     \___/  mga
>: I see these things backwards, so I don`t know if this works. The nose
>should
>: stick out and the eyes stick in. :o)
>
>It doesn't really - too much depth in a too small space. The outline and
>the mouth, making up most of the picture, lock together with whichever
>eye is in the middle, making it look as if you had two noses and three
>eyes. =)

     It would be easier to see if there were three of the picture as well.
--
     .-~~-.
    (_^..^_)
Lester||||AMC

*Mythos Online : Internet Magazine of Lovecraftian Horror - Dead Alice*
http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/redlion/157/deadal.htm
*ANSI/ASCII*
http://members.aol.com/lester5374/

Spunk1111 <spu...@aol.comASCIIart> ASCII art 26 Oct 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
>Message-id: <363...@sympatico.ca>

>Posting malicious defacings constitute copyright violations, even if there is
>no money involved.

hahahahahaha- I can't help myself.
This is like the pot calling the kettle black!

PC-- you did this yourself to MANY ASCII pics posted
in this forum.  You are guilty as well....  Go check
 dejanews if you have forgotten already...
 but I'm sure you haven't forgotten-- after all,
 you were so adament on doing such things that
 you had to send copies of the malicious defacings
 to me via personal email.

(gee, and you wonder why I notified your ISP)....
-joan
--
        .{{}}}}}}.
       {{{{{}}}}}}}.        joan stark   <spu...@juno.com>
      {{{{  }}}}}}}}}
     }}}}} _   _ {{{{{             ASCII Art Gallery:
     }}}}  6 . 6  {{{{         <http://www.ascii-art.com>
    {{{{{  .___.  }}}}}
   {{{{{{\  \_/  /}}}}}}
   {{{{{{{;.___.;}}}}}}}         still laughing AT you!
    {{{{{{{)   (}}}}}}}'
     `""'"':   :'"'"'`
   jgs      `@` 

Martin Atkins <zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz> ASCII art 26 Oct 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
.----- On Sun, 25 Oct 1998 17:17:58 GMT, Pete Casso posted:
|Martin DiViaio wrote:
|> One thing I do know about copyright law is that it would be impossible
|> for Mr. Casso to copyright the Stein characters. The cartoons mabye but
|> not the characters. Simply because the characters are too small and made
|> up of too few ASCII characters.
|
|There are no requirement on size or number of characters. There are
|requirements on originality, recognizability, uniqueness. Look at other
|cartoon characters which are made of a few pencil strokes, the fewer the
|better in fact.
|
'-------------------------

My cartoon characters aren`t that much bigger than Pete's:



                                            |\.----.   The Fish
                   |||||                    |     ' >
                  | o o |                   |/`----`        .----./|
                  |  >  |                                  < '     |
                  | \_/ |                                   `----`\|
                   \___/ Martin Atkins
                    | |     aka mga
                                                                 %%%@%
        |||||         |_|  /\  |") |") \ /   /" "|" |_|         |o )@%%
       | o o |        | | /""\ |"  |"   |    _)  |  | |         <    @%
       |  >  |                                                  |-'   |
       | \_/ |   /\  |\ | |\ | "|" \ / [" |") ("  /\  |") \ /    \___/
        \___/   /""\ | \| | \| _|_  V  |_ |"\ _) /""\ |"\  |      | |
       __| |__        _ _                _ _              _      James
      /  \ /  \  __ _| | |_   __ _ _____(_|_)___ __ _ _ _| |_
 Dave | | ' | | / _` | |  _|_/ _` (_-< _| | |___/ _` | '_|  _|
                \__,_|_|\__(_)__,_/__|__|_|_|   \__,_|_|  \__|

                    From Martin Atkins and all of his
         .....          ascii cartoon characters!    |||||
        . o o .                                     | o o |
        .  >  .                         ((())      ||  >  ||
        | --- |    __o__               ( o o )     || \_/ ||
         \___/    /-----\             ((  >  ))    /|\___/|/
        __| |__   | o o |             (( \_/ ))     |_| |_|
                  |  >  |             ((\___/))    /  |`|  \
        The       | --- |              __| |__     | /"U"\ |
           bARMY   \___/              /  '-'  \       Lisa
                  __| |__             |_/   \_|
                                     Lisa`s Mate

(from my anniversary posting!)


But I would still get angry if anyone meliciously defaced them. I suppose I
am stating copyright, although up till now I have just assumed intelectual
copyright. My copyright requirements are much the same as Pete's... I don`t
mind people making up stories for the characters, so long as no insult or
'piss taking' is involved.
Colin ..... I don`t mind if you want to compare James 'n' Dave to "silly
cows"! (although I suspect you wouldn`t want to)

Bye!

-Martin

(This is a light hearted message, and nothing I have said about anyone is
intended to be taken too seriously - but my fair copyright conditions are
fairly serious comments. Please don`t start defacing my toons and insulting
me as a result of this message... no insult is intended.)
|\/| _..__|_o._   /\_|_| o._  _   mart.atkins@--
|  |(_||  |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_>            --bigfoot.com

Krogg <kro...@gtcom.net> ASCII art 26 Oct 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
Martin Atkins wrote:
> 
[snip]
> 
> My cartoon characters aren`t that much bigger than Pete's:
[snip of "toons"]
> 
> But I would still get angry if anyone meliciously defaced them. I suppose I
> am stating copyright, although up till now I have just assumed intelectual
> copyright. My copyright requirements are much the same as Pete's... I don`t
> mind people making up stories for the characters, so long as no insult or
> 'piss taking' is involved.
> Colin ..... I don`t mind if you want to compare James 'n' Dave to "silly
> cows"! (although I suspect you wouldn`t want to)
> 
> Bye!
> 
> -Martin
> 
> (This is a light hearted message, and nothing I have said about anyone is
> intended to be taken too seriously - but my fair copyright conditions are
> fairly serious comments. Please don`t start defacing my toons and insulting
> me as a result of this message... no insult is intended.)

Martin,i think you are issuing a license for use of your "toons"
here.You are saying "Copyright conditions" and "copyright requirements"
but these things are standard.Your conditions for use are what would
be called a license not "my fair copyright conditions".Hope you
see what I am saying.I posted a long document here in the ng about
Copyright,look it up,its got some nice links.
Also,i might add,it is perfectly allright to make parodies of
any copyrighted material,even if the owner of the copyright
doesnt approve.So even your license doesnt protect you in any
legal way from some one making a offensive diddle or parody of
your "toons".
Martin,Please dont take this personaly,i am hoping more people
than just you will read this and understand what i am saying.I
am just using your post as a nice place to inject this message.

Also,Many posters here are yapping about "Copyright" without knowing
the first thing about the subject.This is confusing to newbies and
regulars alike.
Here are some highlites about copyright that are relevant to
recent events here in this ng.I suggest any readers look this
up for themselves as well,to get a better understanding.

1.)any work of art is copyrighted when it is created,even if the 
   author doesnot state so when he/she publishes it.

2.)a story line or subject matter maybe copyrighted. i.e. i cant
   write a new "Starwars" story with out getting permission from
   the original author of the original story.

3.)copyrighted material _may_ be republished without permissiom
   for educational purposes,and for other "fair use" purposes.

4.)Parodies of copyrighted material are legal to make.I can make
   up parodies of "Starwars" if i want and no one can do a damn
   thing about it.I can make a new "tie" fighter to add to the 
   "tie" fighter ascii art collection and not fear any legal
   action,because they are parodies,not copyright infringements.

5.)Copyright issues are a continuing subject of confusion in
   this newsgroup and readers need to educate themselves about
   it.Posters here should read about copyright law b4 posting
   thier opinion about copyrights and confusing the real issues
   with myths.

6.) this _is_ a unmoderated newsgroup so take everything here 
    with a grain of salt and and hope for the best.

7.)I am your god and you must send me money,or i will be poor.

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Spunk1111 <spu...@aol.comASCIIart> ASCII art 26 Oct 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
>Message-id: <363...@gtcom.net>

>Posters here should read about copyright law b4 posting
>   thier opinion about copyrights and confusing the real issues
>   with myths.
>

Copyright explained:

When you write copy you have the right to copyright the copy you
write, if the copy is right.  If however, your copy falls over, you
must right your copy.  If you write religious services you write
rite, and have the right to copyright the rite you write.

Very conservative people write right copy, and have the right to
copyright the right copy they write.  A right wing cleric would write
right rite, and has the right to copyright the right rite he has the
right to write.  His editor has the job of making the right rite copy
right before the copyright can be right.

Should Jim Wright decide to write right rite, then Wright would write
right rite, which Wright has the right to copyright.  Duplicating
that rite would copy Wright right rite, and violate copyright, which
Wright would have the right to right.

Right?

-joan
(thanks to the unknown person who wrote the
above... I cannot take credit for it...)
-joan
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Ojosh!ro <ojo...@lunatech.com> ASCII art 26 Oct 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
Hilton Janfield wrote:

> Seems to me the basic conflict between men and women, sexually, is that
> men are like firemen.  To men, sex is an emergency, and no matter what
> we're doing we can be ready in two minutes.  Women, on the other hand,
> are like fire.  They're very exciting, but the conditions have to be
> exactly right for it to occur.





      .--"-.    Where's the fire?
     /      "   LEmme use my hose to put it out!
    :   (o"""|
    / ,- `-._|
  ,'-"  `,-'  
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Okay, so if I got this right, women need oxygen, fuel and heat?
Gawd, I'm a woman! 

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sgt pinback wrote:

>    _________________
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>   ||      | ||| | | |  <-8088 compaq `luggable', 35 pounds of raw
>  |||      | |d| | | ||   computing power that i used to run desqview
>  |||______| ||| |_| ||   on until some fool stole it last year.
>  |@================='|
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>   @@@
>     @|""-""""""""""""""|
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Whow!!!
It almost looks as heavy as my Osbourne one...
We called it a "Transportable"...


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Spunk1111 wrote:
> 
> >Message-id: <363...@gtcom.net>
> 
> >Posters here should read about copyright law b4 posting
> >   thier opinion about copyrights and confusing the real issues
> >   with myths.
> >
> 
> Copyright explained:
> 
> When you write copy you have the right to copyright the copy you
> write, if the copy is right.  If however, your copy falls over, you
> must right your copy.  If you write religious services you write
> rite, and have the right to copyright the rite you write.
> 
> Very conservative people write right copy, and have the right to
> copyright the right copy they write.  A right wing cleric would write
> right rite, and has the right to copyright the right rite he has the
> right to write.  His editor has the job of making the right rite copy
> right before the copyright can be right.
> 
> Should Jim Wright decide to write right rite, then Wright would write
> right rite, which Wright has the right to copyright.  Duplicating
> that rite would copy Wright right rite, and violate copyright, which
> Wright would have the right to right.
> 
> Right?
> 
> -joan
> (thanks to the unknown person who wrote the
> above... I cannot take credit for it...)
> -joan
> --
>                        /\
>                      __)_)__     joan stark
>                   .-'._'-'_.'-.   spu...@juno.com
>                 .'.' /_\'/_\ '.'.
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>                \ :  :\/\_/\/:  : /
>           jgs   '-:__:__:__:__:-'

Does Frank Lloyd fit inthere too?
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Colin Douthwaite wrote:
> 
> Pete Casso <pet...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 
> > I welcome diddles, I did not waive malicious defacing.
> 
> And here, once again, is the posting which gives the lie to your
> statement above.

Colin, disregarding your hate messages and only referring to the above, I did
NOT say anything along the lines of: "I waive malicious defacing of my work" 
Or to formulate it positively, I do NOT wave malicious defacing of my work.

I have put in more than reasonable effort to explain this in no uncertain
terms to you. I won't put more effort into explaining, I will treat posting of
malicious defacings as copyright violations. I hope you save both of us a lot
of trouble.

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Glory Moon <glo...@nettaxi.com> ASCII art 27 Oct 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
On Thu, 15 Oct 1998 18:18:54 GMT, Chr...@email.in.the.message
(Christian) wrote:

>�     /^\           /^\           /^\           /^\           /^\
>� ####################################################################
>� ####################################################################
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>�/       ## \__/      ##  \__/     ##   \__/    ##    \__/   ##     \
>�   ____ ##     ____  ##    ____   ##   ____    ##  ____     ## ____
>�  /    \##    /    \ ##   /    \  ##  /    \   ## /    \    ##/    \
>� |  2D  |#   |  2D  |##  |  2D  | ## |  2D  |  ##|  2D  |   #|  2D  |
>� |  or  |#   |  or  |##  |  or  | ## |  or  |  ##|  or  |   #|  or  |
>� |  3D  |#   |  3D  |##  |  3D  | ## |  3D  |  ##|  3D  |   #|  3D  |
>� |  ??  |#   |  ??  |##  |  ??  | ## |  ??  |  ##|  ??  |   #|  ??  |
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it _is_ nice! can somebody please give me some clues on making ascii
stereograms? i mean, r there any tutorials or websites dedicated to
them?

thanks,
glory
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Colin Douthwaite wrote:
> If that is not approval by you, then nothing is...unless it was a

Colin, an approval is stated: "I approve ..." but I did NOT state anything
like that.

> you are way beyond reason for reasons that are beyond me...and others.

Strange, I snipped a lot of your stuff exactly for that reason.

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Martin Atkins <zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz> ASCII art 27 Oct 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
.----- On Sun, 25 Oct 1998 20:51:34 -0500, sgt pinback posted:
|On 25 Oct 1998, Ilmari Karonen wrote:
|
|> Martin Atkins (zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz) wrote:
|> :      |||||     |||||
|> :     |  o o|   |o o  |
|> :     | >   |   |   > |
|> :     | \_/ |   | \_/ |
|> :      \___/     \___/  mga
|> : I see these things backwards, so I don`t know if this works. The nose should
|> : stick out and the eyes stick in. :o)
|> 
|> It doesn't really - too much depth in a too small space. The outline and
|> the mouth, making up most of the picture, lock together with whichever
|> eye is in the middle, making it look as if you had two noses and three
|> eyes. =)
|maybe this is better?
|
|     |||||     |||||
|    | o o |   |o o  |
|    |  >  |   |   > |
|    | \_/ |   | \_/ |
|     \___/     \___/  mga
'----------------------
I can sort of make it work now. Much better!

.----------------------
|oh, btw martin, the was sort of an 'ascii windows' --quarterdeck's desqview. 
|it's no longer supported or marketed tho. if you can find a used copy cheap
|it's worth a look. runs on 8088 & up. task swithing on a <286, multitasks 
|on a 386 or better, does something between on a 286 :)
|
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| |@================='|
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|  @@@
|    @|""-""""""""""""""|
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Ohh 'ASCII Windows'! I will keep an eye out for that, it sounds very
interesting.
Someday I may get around to programming ASCIIdows ... but I doubt it!!!! <g>

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Martin Atkins <zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz> ASCII art 27 Oct 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
.----- On 26 Oct 1998 02:03:15 GMT, Lester5374 posted:
|>From: ilt...@sci.fi (Ilmari Karonen)
|
|>Martin Atkins (zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz) wrote:
|>:      |||||     |||||
|>:     |  o o|   |o o  |
|>:     | >   |   |   > |
|>:     | \_/ |   | \_/ |
|>:      \___/     \___/  mga
|
|     It would be easier to see if there were three of the picture as well.
'-----------------------

Like this?

      |||||     |||||     |||||
     |  o o|   | o o |   |o o  |
     | >   |   |  >  |   |   > |
     | \_/ |   | \_/ |   | \_/ |
      \___/     \___/     \___/

I can sortof see it... :o)


Byez,
Martin
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Colin Douthwaite <cfb...@southern.co.nz> ASCII art 28 Oct 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
Martin Atkins <zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz> wrote:
>.----- On Mon, 26 Oct 1998 05:26:36 -0500, Krogg posted:
>|Martin,i think you are issuing a license for use of your "toons"
>|here.You are saying "Copyright conditions" and "copyright requirements"
>|but these things are standard.Your conditions for use are what would
>|be called a license not "my fair copyright conditions".Hope you
>|see what I am saying.I posted a long document here in the ng about
>|Copyright,look it up,its got some nice links.
>|Also,i might add,it is perfectly allright to make parodies of
>|any copyrighted material,even if the owner of the copyright
>|doesnt approve.So even your license doesnt protect you in any
>|legal way from some one making a offensive diddle or parody of
>|your "toons".
>|Martin,Please dont take this personaly,i am hoping more people
>|than just you will read this and understand what i am saying.I
>|am just using your post as a nice place to inject this message.
>|
>\
> > SNIP!
>/
>'------------------------

>Whatever the hell it is, I don`t mind people using my characters to make up
>humerous stories, so long as they are not intended to offend people or
>degrade my characters. Call that a licence, a copyright, a bloody banana for
>the hell I care --- that's my request and whether people choose to honour it
>or not is beyond my control... although I would like to think that members
>of the newsgroup would treat my creations and requests relating to them as I
>have to other artists' work over the few years I have been here.



                    |
SOAPBOX MODE:  ON   |
                   \|/


Oh come on now Martin. If, as you claim, you have been a few years
reading Usenet newsgroups you must know how...to some readers...the
slightest little thing can be misinterpreted and seen as an insult
when nothing was further from the "offending" poster's mind.
Even a Smiley :-) can be insulting.


Once you start to diddle other peoples' pictures, and use their
characters, you immediately create the risk that someone (even if it
is not the original author) will take offence.

So who can define, unarguably, what is offensive and what is not?
Tolerance of offensiveness is a very variable quantity.


As I've said earlier, on the subject of diddling, early-days
diddling was usually regarded as minor changes to a simple drawing
to help a newcomer to Ascii Art to gain confidence in making their
own totally original pictures.

Nowadays diddling has tended to become a way of passing comment
(pictorially) on some picture someone else has posted to make
a point or express an opinion.


So if you are going to post your pictures publicly in unmoderated
newsgroups you have to be prepared for them to be used in all sorts
of ways that you do not like.

If you do not want things to happen to your pictures then you should
try to confine them to a Private Website where you can impose
control of their use or just don't post them publicly at
all...especially ones you are extra-sensitive about.


Example:

This very next posting of yours _COULD_ offend Veronica ( not that I
think it will ) but it demonstrates how subjective "offensiveness"
can really be on the Net...and it is not confined to pictures but
applies to text messages too.


====================================================================

From: zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz (Martin Atkins)
Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
Subject: Re: REQ:Chip
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 10:06:37 GMT
Message-ID: <363...@news.vossnet.net>

.----- On Mon, 26 Oct 1998 12:07:17 +0100, Meph posted:
|
|                   ____________
|      .|||||.     /            \
|     |||||||||   ( A diddle:... )
|    |||||| . \   | ____________/    _____________________
|    ||||||   -' _//                /Don't talk with me...\
|   |||||||  -|                    (      I'M DEAD !!!     )
|   ||||||| -'                      \_____________________/
|   |.--'   `--------------._         O
|   /             ___________\____   O
|  / ( . ) ( . ).'       /        \ o
| (   `-'   `-'/        |  .    .  |
|  \  )   .   (         |   '      |
|  |)/         \         \        /        ......
| ==(           )         \ ---- /       .'      '.
|  ||\   \%/   /           \_  _/       :  R.I.P   :
|  || \   |   /              '         :(Alien)Meph.:
|  ||  \  |  /              '          :            :
|  ||  ( )|( )                         :Killed by VK:
|  ||  /  |  \                      ___:  Okt.'98   :___
|  || (   |   )               _____/   :            :   \__
|  ||  \  |  /              _/                   __      __\_
|  ||   ) | (              /   \_    /                     \ \
|  \/  (mm|mm)            |__________________________________|
|
|
|;)
|
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   /           \        |  >  |    . [" [" |/ |
  / ( . ) ( . ).\       |  O  | --'  |_ |_ |\ o
 (   `-'   `-'/  )       \___/
  \  )   .   (  /      .--|_|--.        It's a supermeganaked
  |)/         \(      /         \               VK!!!!!!
 ==(           )     /_/| MGA |\_\
  ||\   \%/   /     / / |     | \ \
  || \   |   /     / /  |     |  \ \
  ||  \  |  /     (_/   |-...-|   \_)
  ||  ( )|( )           | .-. |
  ||  /  |  \           ( | | )
  || (   |   )          | | | |
  ||  \  |  /           | | | |
  ||   ) | (           _|_| |_|_
  \/  (mm|mm)VK       |___| |___|mga



    |||||
   | o - |
   |  >  |
   | \_/ |
    \___/
     | |


Bye......
-Martin
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SOAPBOX MODE:  OFF   |
                     |

Toodles,

Colin Douthwaite wrote:
> So who can define, unarguably, what is offensive and what is not?
> Tolerance of offensiveness is a very variable quantity.

In case of doubt, refer to item #5 of our Ten Commandments:
"Thou shalt ask permission before using someone else's ASCII art."

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Martin Atkins <zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz> ASCII art 28 Oct 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
.----- On Mon, 26 Oct 1998 05:26:36 -0500, Krogg posted:
|Martin Atkins wrote:
|> 
|[snip]
|> 
|> My cartoon characters aren`t that much bigger than Pete's:
|[snip of "toons"]
|> 
|> But I would still get angry if anyone meliciously defaced them. I suppose I
|> am stating copyright, although up till now I have just assumed intelectual
|> copyright. My copyright requirements are much the same as Pete's... I don`t
|> mind people making up stories for the characters, so long as no insult or
|> 'piss taking' is involved.
|> Colin ..... I don`t mind if you want to compare James 'n' Dave to "silly
|> cows"! (although I suspect you wouldn`t want to)
|> 
|> Bye!
|> 
|> -Martin
|> 
|> (This is a light hearted message, and nothing I have said about anyone is
|> intended to be taken too seriously - but my fair copyright conditions are
|> fairly serious comments. Please don`t start defacing my toons and insulting
|> me as a result of this message... no insult is intended.)
|
|Martin,i think you are issuing a license for use of your "toons"
|here.You are saying "Copyright conditions" and "copyright requirements"
|but these things are standard.Your conditions for use are what would
|be called a license not "my fair copyright conditions".Hope you
|see what I am saying.I posted a long document here in the ng about
|Copyright,look it up,its got some nice links.
|Also,i might add,it is perfectly allright to make parodies of
|any copyrighted material,even if the owner of the copyright
|doesnt approve.So even your license doesnt protect you in any
|legal way from some one making a offensive diddle or parody of
|your "toons".
|Martin,Please dont take this personaly,i am hoping more people
|than just you will read this and understand what i am saying.I
|am just using your post as a nice place to inject this message.
|
\
 > SNIP!
/
'------------------------

Whatever the hell it is, I don`t mind people using my characters to make up
humerous stories, so long as they are not intended to offend people or
degrade my characters. Call that a licence, a copyright, a bloody banana for
the hell I care --- that's my request and whether people choose to honour it
or not is beyond my control... although I would like to think that members
of the newsgroup would treat my creations and requests relating to them as I
have to other artists' work over the few years I have been here.

Amen.

|\/| _..__|_o._   /\_|_| o._  _   mart.atkins@--
|  |(_||  |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_>            --bigfoot.com

Excuse my saying, but this sis starting to sound like a Madonna-song =)


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Colin Douthwaite <cfb...@southern.co.nz> ASCII art 29 Oct 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
Pete Casso <pet...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>Colin Douthwaite wrote:
>> So who can define, unarguably, what is offensive and what is not?
>> Tolerance of offensiveness is a very variable quantity.

>In case of doubt, refer to item #5 of our Ten Commandments:
>"Thou shalt ask permission before using someone else's ASCII art."


Oh, look,look,look...yet ANOTHER change of face from you!
                         ^^^^^^^

In Message-ID: <361...@sympatico.ca> dated 1 October 1998
you wrote the following ( note particularly Item 5):

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Message-ID: <361...@sympatico.ca> dated 1 October 1998
From: Pete Casso <pet...@sympatico.ca>
Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
Subject: Encourage pirace, vandalism and theft
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 22:53:15 GMT

The Official FAQ of alt.ascii-art
=================================
           \\\\`///
           /  _  _|                  1. Thou shalt read the FAQ.
          (\'('\/')                  2. Thou shalt remove initials
    ______/(    >(__                     from any ASCII art.
   /`-    \ \_=__| `\                3. Thou shalt claim ownership
  /       /__(  _____\  _____            of anyone else's ASCII art.
 /_ \.____    ,"     "."     ",__    4. Thou shalt read the FAQ.
|    /   _\__/_       -       /  \   5. Thou shalt not ask permission  <===
\/      /____  \ASCII ART FAQ  ///       before using anyone else's
 )     / /   \__\     -        |         ASCII art.

[...remainder snipped...]

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You also reposted the above distortion of yours several times not
just once!

Your credibility, veracity and integrity have all been exposed and
totally destroyed by your own activities.

Please go away now, Mr. Casso, and leave us all in peace here in the
alt.ascii-art newsgroup.

GoodBye,

sandra van zanten wrote:
> My gawd, if I had known these "commandments" would be used as
> references, I'd have been more carefull writing them -(I probably
> wouldn't
> have written them at all)-
> 
> Anyway, with the "fifth commandment" i was refering to people who want
> to use ascii art in their sig, as illustration somewhere... you know
> things like that: not forbidding use of someone else's ascii in
> the newsgroup.
> 
> Ascii Art FAQ Fifth Commandment:
> 5. Thou shalt ask permission before using anyone else's
>    ASCII art.
> 
> Maybe someone with a better knowledge of English than me should re-write
> the darn thing.

Is this a case of sarcasm too? But sarcasm aside, I don't think there is a
need for a re-write. It is consistent with the Copyright FAQ that we need to
abide by law anyway.

The Copyright FAQ does allow for the use of someone else's ascii art in their
sig, as illustration somewhere, diddling, etc within certain common sense
restrictions, providing copyright notice/initials are kept in the pic, etc in
short, that's all formalized common sense, nothing more.

=========================================================
[]   .oo     Visit the Gallery of the 'steins!         []
[]  (  -)   http://www3.sympatico.ca/petecasso/        []
[]   " "   Frogstein, who has a point behind his eyes  []
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CJRandall <col...@shieldwolf.demon.co.uk> ASCII art 30 Oct 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
 sandra van zanten <svz...@xs4all.nl> writes
>
>Ascii Art FAQ Fifth Commandment:
>5. Thou shalt ask permission before using anyone else's
>   ASCII art.
>
>Maybe someone with a better knowledge of English than me should re-write
>the darn thing.

Ascii Art FAQ Fifth Commandment: [1st ammendment]
5. Thou shalt ask permission before using anyone else's
   Ascii art outside the newsgroup.

does this follow the spirit ?

[][ see yuz
[][ colin
-- 
( () /_ / /\)   _/   /? .\ /\) /) .\ /_ /_
CJRandall http://www.shieldwolf.demon.co.uk

Ojosh!ro wrote:
> 
> Excuse my saying, but this sis starting to sound like a Madonna-song =)

You are perfectly right. Colin knows, that the distortions perfectly describe
his dubious diddling practices and he then repeats his flames up to 41 times a day.

=========================================================
[]   .oo     Visit the Gallery of the 'steins!         []
[]  (  -)   http://www3.sympatico.ca/petecasso/        []
[]   " "   Frogstein, who has a point behind his eyes  []
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sandra van zanten <svz...@xs4all.nl> ASCII art 30 Oct 1998 00:00 · permalink · report

Pete Casso wrote:

> Colin Douthwaite wrote:
> > So who can define, unarguably, what is offensive and what is not?
> > Tolerance of offensiveness is a very variable quantity.
>
> In case of doubt, refer to item #5 of our Ten Commandments:
> "Thou shalt ask permission before using someone else's ASCII art."
>
>



My gawd, if I had known these "commandments" would be used as
references, I'd have been more carefull writing them -(I probably
wouldn't
have written them at all)-

Anyway, with the "fifth commandment" i was refering to people who want
to use ascii art in their sig, as illustration somewhere... you know
things like that: not forbidding use of someone else's ascii in
the newsgroup.


Ascii Art FAQ Fifth Commandment:
5. Thou shalt ask permission before using anyone else's
   ASCII art.

Maybe someone with a better knowledge of English than me should re-write

the darn thing.
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       /_ /\ \____  joris bellenger (b'ger)
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