Re: Stealing art (was: Dicraeosaurus)

["Jordan Mallon" <j_mallon@hotmail.com>]

> From: Morgan Churchill <mmcjawa@yahoo.com>

> I always wondered, if one uses a skeletal reconstruction, including >the 
> animals posture, limb placement, ect..., and "fleshes" the >skeletal 
> reconstruction out, to get what the animal may have looked >like, is this 
> considered "stealing"?  I used a skeleton of Clevosaurus >from Early 
> mesozoic tetrapods for a reconstruction, and cited that the >picture was 
> based on that skeleton.

It's not stealing if you don't copy someone else's work and claim it's 
yours.
Look here, for example:
http://www.dinooption.co.kr/image02/arts/Protoceratops01.jpg

Jordan Mallon

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