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?€? Ask permission to use another artists work for the purpose of conversion or map or texture revision or copying, again, this is just common sense and avoids potential problems.
?€? Give credit where credit is due, honoring the hard work of your fellow artists is always a good thing.

Model, Map or Concept Theft

While LWG is interested in the rights of the artist we do not feel it is our obligation to mitigate disputes between members and although we believe that everyone should be treated with dignity and respect, in the event, that an LWG member is accused of violating copyright or plagiarizing another?€™s work we will allow the accuser to post directly to the thread in question and attempt to iron out the difficulties in a civil manner. If either party is unable to handle the matter sensibly or civilly we will move the thread in question to a private forum where the two can continue to work out their differences. If the accused is found to be guilty of the allegations the Council will weigh the evidence, materials and all matters in the issue and notify the guilty party of the ramifications of those findings.

The results for this infraction are typically a minimum of two weeks ban from LWG after which the member is allowed to return to the forums. Other factors can increase the penalty accordingly and in some case can result in indefinite or permanent bans.

Credits

LWG are concerned that authors get credit for their work and that members are not mis-representing themselves... when you post work here we want to know what is your work so that we can give fair and honest critique of your work and your work only.

If you use a mesh or texture etc.. that was not created by you then you must give credit to the original authors ON THE IMAGE itself clearly and legibly.

If you created ALLthe elements on the image yourself, then it is your choice whether to credit the image or not - but we do insist that you inform us that was all your work somewhere in the post - for all the reasons stated above. This includes crediting the use of a 2D Artists work, if the concept was not yours do not take credit for it as your own and do not post it without permission from the 2D author.

Conversions: These are a special case - we have spotted many conversions where other members seem to be under the misapprehension that the models were made by the converter - and the converter makes no steps to rectify this presumption - this in our minds is mis-representation. Again, you must credit the original author be ?€“ you as the converter must list all the work you undertook - an example of this would be: " Original by ***** LW conversion: sectional rebuilding - lights and textures by ****"