Re: Manipulation of Images

Merging/Morphing means cutting out parts from a picture and pasting them into some other. eg

The original picture is this-

The member has cut the face of Shahrukh and the girl and pasted the face of Samrat and Gunjan -

Ambrosia, I very well know what merging/morphing and manipulation mean ;) Thanks for the examples though. That said, your post even further proves my point. Let's take your signature for an example. You put together two pictures that weren't previously combined (same concept as merging/morphing) and added your creation tag to the mix. That is also an infringement of copyright since I'm pretty sure you didn't take the original pictures yourself and as such, have no legal permission to edit them. When you even edit a slight thing of a photograph (e.g. combining two pictures as is the case with the Aishwarya and your Robert/Megan sig, turning it into sepia tone, smoothing over blemishes) without the permission of the original creator, you violate the copyright of that image because that's not how the original creator intended it to be. Therefore, when you allow this type of violation of copyright (combining two pictures when the original creator/copyright holder did NOT intend it to be so), why do you prohibit manipulation? To put it delicately, the copyright argument is deceitful, hypocritical, and I'm quite sure you know that too.

As for your other arguments, you stated that if a couple hasn't worked together, you can't put their faces to new bodies to satisfy dreams. Um what? I'm quite sure the two actors in the signature above have starred together in a serial. So, I can't see the basis of that. Well, why can't one do manipulate pictures to "satisfy [their] dreams"? What IS the harm in it? Sure, some people get pissed off for reasons I can't fathom, but why are you simply willing to appease those who get "hurt from seeing a couple merged (if they don't like the couple) into their couple" while letting those who derive a sense of happiness from the manipulation to bite the dust? IMO, that's being extremely one-sided, and showing a bias towards those who get hurt over an image in someone else's signature.

Hypothetically, if I and quite a few others were to tell you that we were extremely hurt at seeing Robert with Megan together in your signature; would you remove your sig and implement a rule stating that Robert-Megan sigs aren't allowed? No, right? After all, it's YOUR signature, YOUR preference and I ultimately should get no say in what YOU chose to pick as YOUR signature. So, why is it that some "hurt" fans get a say in what other people should create and/or put as their signature? They should not be given the upper hand. The fans don't OWN the pictures any more than those who manipulate the pictures, they are NOT the copyright holders so, why are they given the priority? That reeks of favouritism, even though I'm sure you didn't intend for it to be that way.

It's not really confusing so much as it is a hoax ;) I'm not calling you out on being confusing but on the unintended hypocrisy and lack of valid reasoning for barring morphing. I understand you and your arguments perfectly well; I simply don't think your fallacious and misleading arguments are valid enough to prohibit morphing which is why I protested this earlier (see the "Merging/Morphing - Not Allowed" thread - linked above) and am doing so now.

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It should simply be allowed. Because it is hypocritical whatever the Dev Team has said.

You say if the two actors haven't worked together, you can't morph their faces? Uhh, Sanaya and Mohit have worked together in MJHT. What you said simply does not make sense in anyway.

For the people who get offended, as Shadowkisses said, they're not being forced to see the signatures, now are they? Just to satisfy them, the creators can't morph? It's their signature, they can very well do whatever they please. The fans that find this offensive can simply learn to grow up because it has nothing to do with them.