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From: phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Subject: Re: Those Ugly Pre-2.0 Windows...
Message-ID: <1991Mar23.150927.8507@ms.uky.edu>
Date: 23 Mar 91 15:09:27 GMT
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In article <1991Mar22.165519.10061@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> gerber@sirius.astro.uiuc.edu (Richard Gerber) writes:
>I never offered to post any [improved icons]
>becuase I was worried about copyright infringement.
     I thought about this myself and came up with the same rules used in
art, which basically lets you use other's images in your own image. For
an extreme case of that, there was a show in NYC a couple of years ago
by a photographer - I forget her name - who exhibited a series of photo-
graphs of other peoples' works. The original works were all in colour,
while her photographs were black and white. While many people questioned
whether this was "art," nobody accused her of copyright infringement.
     She also credited the other artists, which I do as well in the form
of crediting Commodore-Amiga and noting their copyright not only on the
original images (which I've never seen expressly stated) but a co-copyright
on the new images I made which were directly related to their old images.
I tried to keep many of the icons identifiabily the same, so that people
wouldn't get too confused when seeing them. (On the other hand, having
always hated the old Preferences icons - the big question marks always
reminded me of The Riddler from _Batman_ - and all the ugly printer icons,
I came up with entirely new ones for those. You can pretty much say the
same thing for the format and several other icons.)
     On top of all that, I'm not requiring payment (tho' if anyone wants
to send me stuff, it'd be O-Tay By Me! :-) ) so I _really_ don't think
it's a problem.
     Maybe this could turn into something; the Amiga Icon Replacement
Project. :-)
                                                       - R'ykandar.
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