Rangers: The Real Champs?

Especially one who only saw them miss the playoffs once in his lifetime. I just say I feel for you guys. I wanted you to win.

 I can give some thoughts on the subject anyway though. Of course proper etiquette would be to give a source if within reason. However as a general rule Its the internet age and things are going to be passed around, and often the credit is lost before it reaches bloggers in the first place. So you just have to keep that in mind when putting things out. If you really don’t want it to get shared, don’t post it on the internet.

Id say if someone is posting traditional artwork, a poster, etc. they want to sell or use as advertisement of your skill, put out a lower resolution version with a watermark so that anyone who really likes it can find their way back to your website. Comics are especially easy since you can just put it in the border unobtrusively. If you are getting credit, via your own effort or the reposter, I’d generally just view it as free advertising.

Now, that assumes typical blog/twitter posting where there is no ill intent. Cataloging someone elses work directly competes with the author even if you give credit, cropping out watermarks or adding your own with no credit given to the author is poor form, and content farm sites whose goal is specifically to profit from other peoples work are… all that becomes an issue and Ive read some discussions with people being very upset about it.

As for the specific blog posting a couple of these .gifs, that I’d view in the harmless category and not really blink at, though thanks to the commentator who put my name in there =). The only thing that could be profited from in this post is the post as a whole as something of a comedy article if I were regularly posting them on my own website where it generated some ad revenue. If I had my website/comic running full steam and saw it lifted, I’d politely request a link and go from there.

Isolated random .gifs, wallpapers, etc., I typically view as just kind of a fun community contribution and don’t expect credit beyond where Im posting them, and I think thats the general expectation. In most situations they don’t have profit potential or show enough skill that someone is going to see it and say “I MUST HIRE DSHEP FOR A $1K COMMISSION, HE PUT SOMEONES HEAD ON SOMEONE ELSES!”.

Thats really what it comes down to, what can the author lose. If its money or publicity they need, they care.. but if you post intelligently and nothing nefarious is being done usually things spreading would benefit not hurt and most bloggers would be courteous if asked for credit.
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TLDR; its always nice to get credit and professional sites should be professional, but if you are smart about it its free advertising and probably only becomes an issue if the site is exploiting it, they actively remove embedded credit or claim it as their own. Especially if its original content and not edits or copyrighted stuff.

Personally I hope I have to deal with it in the future =)

I had hoped he would retweet it and get you some traffic, or possibly even mention it on the Ticket. I didn’t think he’d posted it on his site with no credit. I just tweeted him with your twitter handle attached so hopefully he won’t sit on that.

I’m really sorry about that. I had no idea he would do that.