REMINDER: Art Theft is Wrong.

It has recently come to my attention that a number of 'Class of the Titans' fansites are stealing other people's fanart -- whether from deviantART galleries, the director's blog, or even this newsblog -- and displaying them on their own websites either as their 'own' artwork or free graphics, and so far, always without credit to the original artists.

Art theft is rude and disrespectul, and if you truly admired these artists, you would give them the respect they deserve and, at the very least, ASK for their permission before stealing their work and pretending it's your own or showing it off on your website. 'It was on the Internet and everyone steals!' is NOT an excuse. Neither is claiming that since it was on a blog, it's free to take -- for cases like the director's blog displaying fanart, the artists in-question have usually (but not always, and you should check) given permission for that person alone to put-up the artwork.

Also, I'm going to take this moment to remind fans (because many apparently need this reminder) that official images from the director's blog may NOT be taken and used for anything. Remember what happened last time when a certain fan who will remain nameless thought it would be a great idea to take graphics and put them on her website -- the director's blog was almost shut-down.

I apologize for using the newsblog as a soapbox, but things in this fandom have gone too far and it needs to be addressed. I don't want to have to resort to publishing names and websites again like last time as a way to discourage this kind of stuff, so for some of you out there, please re-consider what you're doing instead of justifying why you're in the right. Thank you.