(03-22-2017 05:59 PM)Emilia Darkwatch Wrote: Phantom, this has been an ongoing situation for quite some time and revolves around the images not being made available to anyone, not just the person you mention, to make any commercial gain from. There are also other factors involved and have been discussed on forums. You asked for the thoughts of others, and my thoughts are that it is not right for anybody to make a product or profit which involves the use of copywritten images and content they do not have permission to use and/or have not received permission to use. It is a regular business practice, with images or otherwise, that the creator will allow "free use" for personal or non-profit applications but does not allow, and certainly not for free, allow the use of their images for commercial use. To go ahead and create a product without first obtaining the permission of the person who owns rights to the images is very unwise and disrespectful
It would be akin to a photographer making and selling a finished image or logo which uses large components of copywritten content, like a background which is very important to the finished work, and not having respect for the original creator of this background to gain their permission first. One must get the approval first, then proceed to use it. Or, as is very typical for images, buy a commercial license which comes with terms the creator has agreed upon. The photographer can take credit for their finished work and even payment for it, but this is just not right to do when a large part of what forms the picture does not belong to them and was never approved for their use. So, it can be a picture, a product or whatever creation it is but one must always have permission first. Not just take something and use it without permission
I certainly agree with you that it can be lovely to see a cat and how it may look and there is a way to see a cat visually, if you input the traits using build a cat which may be found here
http://tad-carlucci.com/Build-a-Cat/
I understand how they would want to protect their images. But for many of us new kittycat enthusiasts who don't know all the traits, and I don't plan on memorizing them all, the photo profilers were very helpful. as someone who has been into kittycats less than 3 months, I also don't plan on trying to enter the information on 15 cats on 15 web pages to see all the cats photo's from a pedigree (each time I want to see a cat's line). So unless someone comes up with a web page that actually shows me the whole pedigree on a cat that I want to look up I am going to be bailing out on kittycats.
EDIT: i was contacted by someone from kittycats and helped a bit. i am learning more about the pedigree and hoping i will be able to get things to work with it. Ty much.
RM's profiler got banned of using kittycat picks?
