User blog comment:SilvaRex/Artwork licensing etc/@comment-4791684-20110502034753

To be honest, I find copyrights to be irritating in the sense that they're an overreaction. If I drew something, posted it online, and later found it used by someone else, I probably wouldn't care. Short of someone blatantly posting "I personally created this" or something along those lines, I wouldn't even give it a second glance. In fact, I'd be pretty flattered if someone used my artwork, even if they don't credit me for it. Then again, the internet is a huge place, and I don't think many people will find what's being posted by 1 Halo Fanon user among a community that make up a single site, among countless wikis that make up a sliver of the entire online world.

In TL;DR, the chances of someone finding your art in the first place is about 1 in 10,000. The chances of them deciding to use it for themselves is about 1 in 10,000,000. And the chances of them passing it off as their own creation is about 1 in 10,000,000,000. The only real solution I can think of (as I've actually siphoned off signatures from online art before) is to use a translucent water banner. But that kind of thing kind of ruins an image, which is why I just don't see the need to do more than just sign my art. To hell with whoever decides to rip it off; if they can live with it, so can I.