Aren't we all ripping someone's images off?

[Lucky Bicycle Works]

My flag is a completely unique work commissioned from one of the fine people in the NSSport community who dabble in graphic design. I would give someone my lifes savings if they could find my flag somewhere it is not associated with my nation's name.

The eagle's pinion looks kind of familiar, but I wouldn't call the whole composition plagiarism for that. I have no trouble believing that the cutlasses are hand-drawn.

[Lucky Bicycle Works]

Mine is a movie character with a banana on a white background... i found it on the internet and re-sized it to make it look more flag like. If you can have a T-Rex + a Cat on a flag, i can have Samuel O Jackson holding a banana

If my phone looked like that, I would definitely get the hands-free kit for it.

[Smunkeeville]

I made my flag. You can tell because it's ugly and stupid.

[Alexlantis]

My flag is entirely original, so no, urnotright.

[Icezealand]

Mine is "original", but it incorporates parts from other flags. The four stars from the New Zealand flag over a turned and mangled weird half-rectangle version of the Iceland cross. But hey, Libya stole the color green, so I can make this.

[Katganistan]

My flag is a completely unique work commissioned from one of the fine people in the NSSport community who dabble in graphic design. I would give someone my lifes savings if they could find my flag somewhere it is not associated with my nation's name.

The eagle's pinion looks kind of familiar, but I wouldn't call the whole composition plagiarism for that. I have no trouble believing that the cutlasses are hand-drawn.

[Nitpick]Pinion is to do with wings or primary feathers. Talon, perhaps?[/nitpick]

[Fiduses and Diuses]

My flag is wholly of my own design/coloring, my races/nation name is also fairly original(first things that come up in google when searching Fiduse(2nd down for Disuse) is all my work), while I may use the some copyrighted images as my vessels their stats are normally original too so your wholly wrong op.(and I think I mix and match enough to call that fairly original too.) So everyone wouldn't be deleted...

[Aelosia]

Mine is "original" in the sense that I combined originally pre existent images to form it. The star thing is taken from the heraldry of Tolkien Elves, while the image was cut & paste from a portrait drawing I really like.

[Ifreann]

Obviously my flag is a completely original work of my own design, and nothing like anything else on NSG.

I was going to say "except Kyronea's flag", but he's changed his.

Damn you, Kyronea! *shakes fist*

Yeah, someone accused him of stealing my flag. Oh the ironing.

[Cubic kms]

Mine is a movie character with a banana on a white background... i found it on the internet and re-sized it to make it look more flag like. If you can have a T-Rex + a Cat on a flag, i can have Samuel O Jackson holding a banana

If my phone looked like that, I would definitely get the hands-free kit for it.

I originally wanted to copy an existing flag (eg. British / American / Russian), rotate it by 90 degrees and call it my own (like the french did to the dutch) but i thought that might insult some people...

tho i guess Russians wouldn't mind too much since they just rearranged the colour blocks on the dutch flag

[Hodori]

My flag is kinda original.
I took a few preexisting elements (the tiger and star) and edited them in Paint.NET, added a word in a written language I made up, and this is the end result.

The name is taken from one of the 1988 Seoul Olympics mascots. My puppet (Hosuni) gets its name from the other mascot.

[Helgrin]

I made my own flag, but I don't think that it's ripping off unless you say that you made it.

[New Kereptica]

My flag is entirely original, as is everything else I use for my nation (as far as I can remember).

I suppose you could call the horizontal tricolour triband a ripoff, but of whom? It's been used so many times.

[Ifreann]

I made my own flag, but I don't think that it's ripping off unless you say that you made it.

I made it.

[South Lorenya]

I made my own flag, but I don't think that it's ripping off unless you say that you made it.

I made it.

But you're totally ripping off Hataria, RoI3, numerous adbots, and many other NSG megavillains!

[Eliganaria]

My flag is entirely original, as is everything else I use for my nation (as far as I can remember).

I suppose you could call the horizontal tricolour triband a ripoff, but of whom? It's been used so many times.

I'd call your flag incorrect according to traditional rules of heraldry, but not a ripoff. As for mine, it was created by me in Paint.net, out of a traditional heraldic charge and a stylized tulip that I found on the internet, and is based on the rules of heraldry and the personal blazons my wife and I adopted for our college's medieval society. So I feel fairly confident in saying that you won't find it elsewhere (unless someone else yoinks it from me).

[New Kereptica]

My flag is entirely original, as is everything else I use for my nation (as far as I can remember).

I suppose you could call the horizontal tricolour triband a ripoff, but of whom? It's been used so many times.

I'd call your flag incorrect according to traditional rules of heraldry, but not a ripoff.

Oh? Which rules have I violated?

[Eliganaria]

My flag is entirely original, as is everything else I use for my nation (as far as I can remember).

I suppose you could call the horizontal tricolour triband a ripoff, but of whom? It's been used so many times.

I'd call your flag incorrect according to traditional rules of heraldry, but not a ripoff.

Oh? Which rules have I violated?

Color touching a color -- the blue and purple bit. Though now that I think about it, that's technically a division, so it might be all right. I'd have to double check.

[SaintB]

All the pictures I use in RP here on NS are totally original; drawn by myself or someone else. This includes my flag/avatar.

[Zeppy]

Yes, but I changed it.

Its like the Obama picture, it was fair use.

[Lucky Bicycle Works]

My flag is a completely unique work commissioned from one of the fine people in the NSSport community who dabble in graphic design. I would give someone my lifes savings if they could find my flag somewhere it is not associated with my nation's name.

The eagle's pinion looks kind of familiar, but I wouldn't call the whole composition plagiarism for that. I have no trouble believing that the cutlasses are hand-drawn.

[Nitpick]Pinion is to do with wings or primary feathers. Talon, perhaps?[/nitpick]

There should be some word for a bird's foot. I'll google ...

"Foot" apparently. How disappointing.

[Manango]

I made mine in paint. It is hard to tell because I am a paint master, but if you look carefully you can see it is crap.

[Ryadn]

Mine's a photograph I took of a page in a book I bought. Technically I suppose it belongs to Stephen Hall, but he's not going to sue me. He's all about pimping his book(s) out.

I thought you explained it once as ASCII art?

It seems a bit blurrier now, but it sure looks like something which originated on a bulletin board, not from a book.

Er...hmm. That's possible. I did take a picture of the very image in my avatar, which is a page from the book, but I might have used an online image for the avatar.

Damn you!

[Cannot think of a name]

I couldn't think of anything to plagiarize, either. I had to make my own flag because I wasn't able to google a blank name tag.

[Hairless Kitten II]

My flag is entirely original, so no, urnotright.

You are probably not aware, but your flag is almost the same as the logo of my city (Antwerp - Belgium):