Verification - litphoria

Feedback · Verification (needs discussion)

As the site's boomed in activity through the last week since the DevBlog (and seems as if it might do so again once the profiles are more thoroughly updated), I thought it worth a good addition to the site to slip in a verification ability so profiles may adequately show that the art on their profile belongs to them.

While it's not assured it might happen, the lack thereof of unique names (and the ability to just have the same name as anyone on the site, but with a different ID) could in the future when more people join the site and more profiles are made of some people stealing other people's original character art and using it for their own. I'm more or less dragging this suggestion from the verification that's on F-list, so moderators/admins of Litphoria can make sure no problems arise in the future if someone nicks someone's art. The best way to verify one's art, I suppose, would be like on F-list; links to the artist's original post, that links to your profile on whatever site, which in turn links to your Litphoria page to show you own the art, and it could be resembled by a green tick at the top right of your profile, by the art icons.

Food for thought, in any case!

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Wrecked Avent Site Administrator

One of my longer-term visions for the site was being able to have artists register and have profiles "link" their images to these artist profiles. Free advertising for them, perhaps with the counter point that they be obligated to allow this site to reproduce their images.

A problem with f-list's model is that verification is binary and profile-based; a profile is either verified or not. One of the reasons this is a huge problem is artists can't always be arsed to confirm these things, so a lot of images you actually have commissioned might not be eligible to use on your profile based on the whims of an artist. This also leads to the point that we're not really asking "does this profile contain only images they're allowed to use", we're trying to identify what images can be reproduced where, to deal with copyright infringement.

I think if we were to look at the problem with fresh eyes, the more sensible solution is to create a list of some kind, which relates the image, the artist which created the image, and the profile allowed to use said image. That is to say, we wouldn't be verifying the profile, but the images. Another benefit of such a list is in the long-term, newly-uploaded images could be compared against it, and automatically blocked if they were matched.

Also, it is against the rules to impersonate another user, so I don't think we should entertain for too long the idea of someone copying someone's profile name and images to pose as them. Non-unique naming does not add or subtract anything from being able to mark images as being allowed to use on what profile(s).

Wrecked Avent Site Administrator

Also, we may wish to consider fair use for profiles using images they do not own, similar to how fair use should be considered if someone uploads for example an image of han solo as part of their star was canon character. If the images were verified instead of the profile at large, we have some interesting opportunities to do things like link back to the profile that is allowed to use it, indicating that this image is only being used as a reference.

I don't know how productive it is to talk about "stealing" images in the context of copyright infringement. This is a site that often deals with IPs that people simply don't own, but want to iterate on and write their own literature for. This is how art evolves and iterates. Being extremely restrictive on IPs that people personally commission but lax on ones that large corporations own is ... odd, to say the least.

Food for thought.

Quenthell

I would love to be able to verify my art to keep others from nicking it. Also expecting artists to register here would be nice, but probably not every going to actually happen so I'd definitly like some method of image verification on art.

Quenthell

I can very easily like screenshots of the commission orders and the image on the artist's HF/DA profile to confirm.

Quenthell

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