This is just a gentle reminder in regards to my Bunny Breeds Poster and Bunny Eyes Poster.

There has been an issue brought to my attention that some feel it “fair use” to make use of my artwork as seen on the Bunny Types and Bunny Eyes pages so long as they don’t try to sell whatever they use it for. I am going to outline this clearly…

It is NEVER okay to use these images in any way without my prior consent.

The Bunny Breeds Poster isn’t an original idea. As I state on the Bunny Types page, the concept was first realized by Vinya Mrigesh. I chose to do a more whimsical adaptation and later I created the original Bunny Eyes Poster. I have credited Vinya Mrigesh for his concept in the note card contained within the poster upon purchase, on the XStreet purchase page as well as the Bunny Types page itself. And that is the ethical way to do things.

Having said that, the artwork on my posters is 100% mine. I spent several weeks drawing and shading the bunnies and eyes until I got it just right. I put a lot of work into them and I made it available here for you to see and refer to for free. If you want a copy of the posters for your farm in world, they are for sale.

Buying them doesn’t mean you can do whatever you want – certain permissions of that specific prim are still in affect such as the ability to modify the prim itself (this means you can change the size of the prim within the Second Life grid – not modify the image on it just because you can find the image elsewhere). You may also copy the prim itself (this means you can create a copy of the prim and does not mean you can copy the image itself just because you can find it elsewhere). You may not transfer the prim (this means you can’t give the prim to anyone else just as it means you cannot take the image from the website and transfer it anywhere just because you can find it elsewhere).

Saving the image to your hard drive is theft. You are taking something that does not belong to you. I understand that it’s 2010… most of us have downloaded an image from Google and used it without consent of it’s creator/owner and it’s pretty typical these days. No one really gets in trouble. But this is Original Content – something you can and will get in trouble for if I find out you have taken my artwork.

It doesn’t matter if you tell me “I wasn’t gonna sell it…” you still stole from me.

You still took the actual image.
You are still using it.
It is still in your possession in a manner which I expressed as being against my rules.
It’s on your hard drive where it doesn’t belong.

This is not only unethical, it’s actually ILLEGAL and if I find out that you have stolen from me, believe me… there really are consequences.

I’m sorry to have to make such a post. I can be realistic… I knew it was a risk putting the images on the site. I did so for the good of the community. I have no doubt that there are countless people who have the image saved on their computers. I hope they understand why this is wrong and that they have stolen someone’s hard work.