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What Counts As Plagiarism?
I'm sorry, I really don't understand counts as plagiarism, is it in having a Head that looks almost the same as someone else's but completely different? I have a head that I was offering to someone and I admitted that it looks like LargeKilla's head. But... it's totally not. Someone please explain to me, I'm tired of getting reported.
Plagiarism is bit tricky IRL, but in TB its a bit simpler. As long as the head isnt the same, or almost exactly similar its ok. Nobody in TB can really trademark a ninja or a robot head. So similar heads are fine but blatant copy pasting parts from others heads isnt.

EDIT: For example me and SkulFuks head are similar, and have a similar idea. But that doesnt make it plagiarism from my part. If you were to make a robot head with a wink and a heart (like mine), even that wouldn't be bannable granted there are at least some distinct differences. But you can see when a head is copied. every head has something different and personal, unless its a super plain one.
Last edited by cowmeat; Aug 11, 2015 at 08:40 AM.
Originally Posted by cowmeat View Post
Plagiarism is bit tricky IRL, but in TB its a bit simpler. As long as the head isnt the same, or almost exactly similar its ok. Nobody in TB can really trademark a ninja or a robot head. So similar heads are fine but blatant copy pasting parts from others heads isnt.

EDIT: For example me and SkulFuks head are similar, and have a similar idea. But that doesnt make it plagiarism from my part. If you were to make a robot head with a wink and a heart (like mine), even that wouldn't be bannable granted there are at least some distinct differences. But you can see when a head is copied. every head has something different and personal, unless its a super plain one.

Thank you for telling me, I was about to get reported on this thread... And yes I was REALLY MAD.

http://forum.toribash.com/showthread.php?t=526145
Copy and paste pretty much. If it's not literally copying it shouldn't be an issue. Although don't recolor a texture and sell it again, I'm pretty sure that can get you in trouble.
Curious aren't you.


whatever you did, it was plagiarism.

like mentioned above, it's pretty simple, don't claim stuff as your own when they're not,
don't use uncredited sources for c/p, nor sources that are not a free resource..
you can't claim an idea either, like mentioned above, so if I draw a cat with a cowboy hat
that is eating purple icecream, and then you draw your interpretation of a similar idea,
then there's nothing wrong there..
however, if you take my image, and alter it in anyway, it is still my image. That includes
tracing, recoloring, replacements of sections, c/p'ing, and so forth
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