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# Ok, listen up everyone, some quite serious stuff here:

This is a caricature made from parts of Amy Winehouse, Little Richard and a whole lot of Liquify and shade brushing that just happens to look quite a lot like a certain litigious dwarf.

Now, if all of us with Teh Skillz made images similar to (and hopefully better than ) this and then we all replaced all of our compo posts' faces with these made-up-ourselves images, wouldn't that mean the Web Sheriff® wouldn't have a leg to stand on, as we wouldn't be using any copyrighted Ponce pics anymore?


*edit* Well, if my entries get removed like others have been, they shall be being replaced with this image where his head used to be and re-uploaded, and then they can cry if they want to!
(I helped save b3ta! ..wil, Wed 14 Nov 2007, 13:43, archived)
# Does websherrif have legs to stand on at the moment then?
I thought he didn't

Nice idea though...

EDIT:
I find it odd that we didn't get this sort of grief from the Elvis challenge and they are notoriously letigious when it comes to his Elvis-ness' likeness
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Wed 14 Nov 2007, 13:44, archived)
# No.
(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Wed 14 Nov 2007, 13:44, archived)
# what's this web sheriff business?
please?
(I helped save b3ta! bilbobarneybobs I'll be 14 in b3ta years soon., Wed 14 Nov 2007, 13:46, archived)
# here
www.b3ta.com/board/7783272
www.b3ta.com/board/7783116

some reading material
(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Wed 14 Nov 2007, 13:47, archived)
# thank you
that was most enlightening
(I helped save b3ta! bilbobarneybobs I'll be 14 in b3ta years soon., Wed 14 Nov 2007, 13:58, archived)
# i doubt elvis
complained.
(I helped save b3ta! Sunshine Elephant, Wed 14 Nov 2007, 13:47, archived)
# He mumbled something about b3ta when I crossed him at the 7//11
(Your watch is still saving for 5K but has learnt about 'nose bondage', Wed 14 Nov 2007, 13:48, archived)
# he can stand
atop my tree shredder!

(Lexachu A buh? no, not a buh, a bomb!, Wed 14 Nov 2007, 13:48, archived)
# Is it even Prince
who sent the websheriffs, or have they just taken it upon themselves?
(I helped save b3ta! McBadger COW, Wed 14 Nov 2007, 13:52, archived)
# If they are doing it themselves without the approval of the purple midget then
they will be liable for huge fines. The DMCA specifically states that third parties can be used for DMCA violation investigations and notifications, but the offended party must be the driver behind it
(spudmonkey Now MrPineapple can sex me from behind. Don't ask!, Wed 14 Nov 2007, 14:29, archived)
# they don't have a leg to stand
parody and satire are "fair use" under american copyright law
(Your watch is still saving for 5K but has learnt about 'nose bondage', Wed 14 Nov 2007, 13:44, archived)
# ^ this
I'm sure I saw a Chapelle sketch where he ripped into Prince, and I'm sure he made money from it, but it's all just a bit of fun isn't it?
(I helped save b3ta! McBadger COW, Wed 14 Nov 2007, 13:45, archived)
# I loved that episode
I'm going to find it now and watch it over and over again until Prince cries.

Well, moreso than he must have done after seeing the image challenge entries.
(I helped save b3ta! MrPineapple .co.uk - TSHIRTS FOR SALE. I GIVE YOU GOOD PRICE., Wed 14 Nov 2007, 13:52, archived)
# And there's the excellent Big Train sketch
Hunting Jockeys
(I helped save b3ta! Sunburnt Tiger Herbie goes Piranhas!, Wed 14 Nov 2007, 14:53, archived)
# Oh really!?
They seem rather serious about it judging from the post Rob put in!

*edit* plus Imageshack and others seem to be removing them anyway...
(I helped save b3ta! ..wil, Wed 14 Nov 2007, 13:47, archived)
# SRSLY
I applaud your idea, though.
(I helped save b3ta! An Eagle in Your Mind, Wed 14 Nov 2007, 13:49, archived)
# As do I
Very nicely done, I must admit =]
(I helped save b3ta! MrPineapple .co.uk - TSHIRTS FOR SALE. I GIVE YOU GOOD PRICE., Wed 14 Nov 2007, 13:50, archived)
# it looks like a standard DMCA complain form
so it might not even be applicable to the UK.
This is just thretening. The real business starts if you don't cease and desist (and then they have to think wheter they have a case at all. Thretening comes for free)
(Your watch is still saving for 5K but has learnt about 'nose bondage', Wed 14 Nov 2007, 13:52, archived)
# NO IT FUCKING DOESN'T
*shakes fist angrily with no intent of violence*
(I helped save b3ta! MrPineapple .co.uk - TSHIRTS FOR SALE. I GIVE YOU GOOD PRICE., Wed 14 Nov 2007, 13:55, archived)
# imageshack et al
are not going to stick their neck out for you. The DMCA tells them that you might land them in trouble, no matter if it's true or not, so they simply prefer to drop you. No big loss for them anyways.
(Your watch is still saving for 5K but has learnt about 'nose bondage', Wed 14 Nov 2007, 14:08, archived)
# That is awesome
and what a splendid idea
(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Wed 14 Nov 2007, 13:44, archived)
# Hmm.
In America I think you can copyright your image, which possibly includes your likeness. But not in good old Blighty!
Blighty likenesses ahoy!
(I helped save b3ta! wheelybird mreee!, Wed 14 Nov 2007, 13:44, archived)
# In Holland, pretty much everything is permitted
as long as you don't hurt any animals
(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Wed 14 Nov 2007, 13:45, archived)
# Yes.
You have to go to Belgium for that.
(I helped save b3ta! wheelybird mreee!, Wed 14 Nov 2007, 13:46, archived)
# Does Prince count as an animal?
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Wed 14 Nov 2007, 13:46, archived)
# A very seamy one
(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Wed 14 Nov 2007, 13:49, archived)
# He's a sort of badger. Or maybe a marmot.
(I helped save b3ta! The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Wed 14 Nov 2007, 13:54, archived)
# in soviet russia
you get sued by your likelyness
(Your watch is still saving for 5K but has learnt about 'nose bondage', Wed 14 Nov 2007, 13:47, archived)
# haha
I like that idea
(I helped save b3ta! Duncoffin is life., Wed 14 Nov 2007, 13:50, archived)
# it's a bit fucking late in the day to back down from the self richeous cunt

the beds been made and we all fucked around in it..deal with it
(I helped save b3ta! prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Wed 14 Nov 2007, 13:49, archived)
# Who's backing down
It would still LOOK like him...
(I helped save b3ta! ..wil, Wed 14 Nov 2007, 13:51, archived)
# so taking down the original posts isn't backing down?
(I helped save b3ta! prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Wed 14 Nov 2007, 13:54, archived)
# And where does it stop?
If we had to stop using images of celebrities there'd be a lot less stuff on here.

(I helped save b3ta! shrinking man Been away a while, time I ventured back, Wed 14 Nov 2007, 14:00, archived)
# If I was gonna be sued I would take them down, and I will respect Rob if he feels he must
but if we all did this, he wouldn't need to, and all our work can remain, just in a slightly adjusted form that they can't touch anymore.

Works for me!
(I helped save b3ta! ..wil, Wed 14 Nov 2007, 14:04, archived)
# As the lawyer representing
Amy Winehouse Little Richard and Adobe I don't recommend it . . . C];0)

Woo!


(I helped save b3ta! Sir Aunty Grampa Dave the Hat - enjoying a post-meridian muncheon - Ta! Cannaoogim!?, Wed 14 Nov 2007, 13:49, archived)
# Ahaaha
Are they still getting angry then?
(I helped save b3ta! SugarSpunSister Yeah, whatever, Wed 14 Nov 2007, 13:50, archived)
# Rob should sue
For emotional distress caused by their email. Or get someone to threaten to sue on his behalf.

I have thought about registering the domain names webdeputysheriff.com and ishotthewebsheriff.com but have never been arsed to do so....plus they might threaten to sue me
(Long time lurker, Wed 14 Nov 2007, 13:54, archived)
# websheriff.org.uk
is still available ;)
(chippy time travel agents, Wed 14 Nov 2007, 13:58, archived)
# It's just not the same...
(I helped save b3ta! barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Wed 14 Nov 2007, 13:59, archived)
# Aw!
He does look sad!

Well, it was just an idea...
(I helped save b3ta! ..wil, Wed 14 Nov 2007, 14:08, archived)
# I might change my compo one anyway.
He looks like a rather more retarded version of the O.T.
(I helped save b3ta! barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Wed 14 Nov 2007, 14:10, archived)