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As much as you all may dislike the sig makers section, the rules are about to become just like it. A poll would be good, but there are far to many inexperienced spriters roaming the board not aware that what they are doing is wrong, and I don't need their opinions.

Some ideas I have are a definition of ripping a sprite from a game, and stealing a sprite from another member, the extent one may "splice" a sprite, copyright laws game creators have on their property, knock-off's of other members sprites and what risk you're taking by doing such, recoloring, and overall what sprites you may call your own, and ones you can't take any credit more than just chopping them up and rearranging them.

Sprite rules will be tightened and enforced, I know you members who've been doing it for awhile will appreciate it, but I anticipate a large number of the forum to disregard the new rules, but that's their choice.

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A note on the Fair Use Clause.
Fair use makes copyrighted work available to the public as raw material without the need for permission or clearance, so long as such free usage serves the purpose of copyright law, which the U.S. Constitution defines as the promotion of "the Progress of Science and useful Arts" (I.1.8), better than the legal enforcement of claims of infringement. The doctrine thereby attempts to balance the interests of individual copyright holders with the social or cultural benefits that follow from the creation and distribution of derivative works. Insofar as this doctrine protects forms of expression that might otherwise be enjoined as infringing copyright, it has been related to First Amendment free speech protections in the U.S. Constitution.