On Tue, 28 May 2002, Christian Schaller wrote: > > So would it then be kosher to say "To see the original illustration this > > writeup/design/conversion/etc is inspired by, go to <link>"? > > There is some (fairly stupid) debate on that subject. I say, yeah, it's > perfectly fine. Some folks seem to think otherwise, surprisingly. As a vaguely related question, I've got a few images I've fairly heavily modified (myself) -- for instance, taking an image of an AR-15, and doing some editing, basically to create a bullpup version of the AR-15 (basically chopping up the image, moving bits around, and fixing the seams). Does that qualify as "original," or "derivative" work? > Chris Pierre