[ASM scene] Assembly graphics compo question

[Bent Stamnes]

>> Can you use photographs/material you haven´t taken/created yourself?
> I made a quick comparison of the entry and the stock photo used:
> Entry: http://maraz.be/wildlife1.jpg
> Stock: http://maraz.be/wildlife2.jpg
> It might be just me, but I certainly wouldn't agree with the jury in
> this matter. Over 90% of the entry simply isn't analogous to fonts and
> samples.


I find it borderline cocky to write "Background stock from SXC.hu",  
when the "background" is almost all of the image. I am pretty sure  
that the jury and the people who voted for the image was under the  
impression that most of what they saw was made by the person who  
entered the image into the competition.

Now; I don't know what kind of information was submitted along with  
the entry, because if it was just "Background stock from SXC.hu" then  
authentication is quite impossible, but if it said "Background stock  
from SXC.hu - view it HERE" (with a link, obviously) and nobody just  
bothered to check it, then.. well, that's a little silly.

Either way - isn't it usual to submit stages along with entries any  
longer? It would have been pretty tough to fake his way through the  
entry process with stage 1 being "This image, which I got from a stock  
site".

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Bent Stamnes
- Scene.org Public Relations (www.scene.org)
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- Organizer of the Solskogen demoparty (solskogen.demoscene.no)