Well, I've been getting requests, both here & in yahoo IM, to post my photomanipulations here...I am tempted, but the usage agreement is a bit intimidating, and I *don't* have releases for all the source images I've used -- Plus, I'm not paying any legal fees for DA if someone gets upset when they see themselves in an image, in an altered state, with my marque in the corner.

I do feel that my usage of such source pictures and the ways I alter them makes it new art, just as a collage is new art, regardless of whether or not you can make out what the souce pieces of material are, or where they came from.

My "art" is not the original pictures, they are just the material, the pieces in my digital collages. No matter my position on this, it's not me but some judge somewhere who would decide whether I am right, in my thinking, or in copyright violation. I cannot afford that test, so until I have some "free-to-use" source pics [I'm looking through the stock pics here at DA, now] I'm afraid that this venue will not be showing any PeeGee works -- Sorry.