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Well well well. I have received numerous emails today from a certain site claiming I took her image tags from her site. Out of respect I will not name anyone even though they have already bashed me and this site as well. But as you can tell on this site, I never claimed to make any of the images on this site. I go around myspace and gather images that way. This person fails to realize something and that something is this. She is NOT the owner of the work of art she altered or animated. Just because she animated letters, or altered the image does not mean she has copyright over that image. People apparently do not understand this and are to stupid to realize that you are the very one that is stealing the art by copyrighting someone else's art. Just be kind enough to the TRUE artist and put "Tagged by so-in-so" or "Animated by so-in-so" instead of "Copyright © whatever". Do NOT tell me that you are going to file a lawsuit or whatever on me unless you can show me proof that the original work of art is truly yours, once I have that proof in front of me I will then remove the image from my site. I did however remove the images from the site that this person was threatening me with a lawsuit, but it wasn't because she told me to but only because my hosting told me to and out of respect I did. legally I am not doing anything wrong. in fact what I am doing is giving props to artists' and taggers because I do NOT remove anything from the images. I do not alter the images. and if there is a website address on the image, guess what? I am giving free promotion to that website! I am just providing a website that people can come to, to be able have a very huge selection of images to choose from and not have to go from site to site to achieve this.

So if you are an artist and want something removed from my site, please send me the proof and I will be more than happy to remove the image. If you are a tagger, do NOT waste my time. Again this site is a so called "One Stop" for images to post in profiles and or comments for social networking sites like myspace.

Don't Hate! Appreciate! Fuckers! <- "Freedom of speech!"

At the beginning of 2007, the creator of freecommenttags.com was enthusiastically uploading new images to the site till it had reached almost 15,000. I posted some of my own. And then one day the site disappeared. We all moved on. New tag sites appeared and disappeared. the most recent site I have seen boasted +15,000 Categories --- +100,000 Graphics! Pretty impressive, but I always had a soft spot for FreeCommentTags.com. Recently I discovered that the domain for FreeCommentTags.com was available so I bought it with the goal of recreating some of its content from archived pages and to point visitors to their new site. I definitely didn't want someone else purchasing the domain and re-purposing the site for something that had nothing in common with the original website. Since the site will not be exactly as you remember it, please be indulgent. I have added just a few examples of the type of images posted to give a better sense of what the site was like.

After reading some of the issues encountered by the previous owner regarding requests to remove images and the legal threats or issues that accompany those requests, I contacted the most knowledgeable person I know on how to deal with these kinds of problems. As an experienced and successful SEO, Bob Sakayama (of TNG/Earthling fame) has some very wise advice. He suggested that we never post images without permission, especially images taken from other websites. While that is something that is easy to do and done frequently simply because is it easy, you do open yourself up to copyright violations. Remember that many images online were created by someone who was paid to create them and a copyright owner is likely to be involved. Most of the time, the owner is willing to grant you permission. In the event that you did not get permission, and someone complains that you're using a proprietary image, simply remove it. That kind of prompt action will eliminate any legal liability. This is especially true if your site is involved in commerce. Basically his advice is to always use unique or licensed images - there are many sources online where you can purchase blanket licenses to use a large collection of stock photos. So there really is no need to violate anyone's image copyrights. Now back to reminiscing about FreeCommentTags.

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