The next time you have to choose an avatar for a social network or forum, avoid selecting your favorite Homer Simpson or Jack Sparrow avatar. Or you may well get into trouble.
Mephisto, a member of a poker site, used a Takashi Murakami image as an 80×70 pixel avatar on the site’s forum. Murakami responded with an email asking the user to either pay up 50,000 Yen (500$) or stop using the avatar.
On a related note, if you are looking to create a cool looking custom avatar, build one from scratch at Yahoo! Avatars or MiiWare.
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/avatar-images-are-copyrighted/5233/
Reader Comments
There have been lot of avatars freely available on the net to use in forums freely,so avatars have also copyright issues so we have to be careful while choosing avatars.500$ for that avatar is too much.
Written by venkat on 11.05.08