Who took this screenshot?
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Posted on: 2012-09-10 08:47 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
doesn't matter who took it, NCsoft owns the rights to it
That's from an actual gathering organized by a community manager. The white fairy in the front is Niviene, I think. I am the blue dude flying with rocket boots in the middle right. It was most likely released as part of a press kit.
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That looks like one of the official Test or Beta server screenshots from a couple years ago.
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Hmm, if that's the case, then my character Space Monkey should be in there somewhere, as I was actually on Nivienne's team.
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Originally Posted by Leandro
That's from an actual gathering organized by a community manager. The white fairy in the front is Niviene, I think. I am the blue dude flying with rocket boots in the middle right. It was most likely released as part of a press kit.
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Although, I don't think that location actually exists in-game. It might be a combination of two different shots.
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I think you might be thinking that because what you're looking at is the OLD Atlas park and it's style of buildings in the background as opposed to the new version.
So technically no. It doesn't exist anymore in the accessible game.
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There were never stairs like that near the Atlas statue. And you could never see an AE building from that angle. It almost looks as if Atlas has been placed in Galaxy in place of the Arena. And now that I think on it, if it *was* Nivienne who took it, then that's where we were: Galaxy City.
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Originally Posted by Atlantea
I think you might be thinking that because what you're looking at is the OLD Atlas park and it's style of buildings in the background as opposed to the new version.
So technically no. It doesn't exist anymore in the accessible game. |
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Originally Posted by Ironik
There were never stairs like that near the Atlas statue. And you could never see an AE building from that angle. It almost looks as if Atlas has been placed in Galaxy in place of the Arena. And now that I think on it, if it *was* Nivienne who took it, then that's where we were: Galaxy City.
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Thanks for the help.
I think the real stumbler may be that NCSoft owns all the imagery.
CNN's talking to me about vetting my article. 
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Woo! Of course, you can point out that ALL images taken from in-game are ultimately the property of NCsoft (not just the ones we as players take or they as developers take). If you can find the original article that NCsoft/Paragon released that used that pic, it might have a specific photo credit on it.|
Originally Posted by Vengeance_MK2
Thanks for the help.
I think the real stumbler may be that NCSoft owns all the imagery. CNN's talking to me about vetting my article. |
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Take a look at Arcanna's explanation of licensing here
It might be the case that NCSoft may own the characters and images, but we still have some usage rights to them as well.
btw, I was very impressed with your article, to the point that I did something I hate doing... I "signed up" so that I could recommend it.
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Nod, perhaps War Witch or zwillinger might have some thoughts for me.
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You forget, something like this is what they'd have to ask their legal department about. And they no longer have a legal department (Zwilinger stated as much in the latest Twitch.tv broadcast, as a reason why no giveaways could be done before the shutdown). So, nobody who's left on Paragon Studios can give a firm answer on this.
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Originally Posted by Vengeance_MK2
Nod, perhaps War Witch or zwillinger might have some thoughts for me.
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Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim
Roll a new character, select Hero. Bam, there are stairs. Now, strafe left until you're directly in front of the stone wall with the large brass torch. Turn your camera to the right and up.
Instant screenshot location recreation. |
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It's probably fair use. You are reproducing a small portion of the game for public news with no financial gain to yourself.
http://lifehacker.com/193343/ask-the...shots-fair-use
I thought that was the screenie that Niviene arranged for one of the anniversary stories on the NCSoft page and also as a press release.
If it was already in a press release, wouldn't that make it as least semi in the public domain?
I suggest contacting Zwill to see if this was the screenie taken at anniversary in either April 2012 or April 2011 - I can't remember when Niv left, although it should be searchable here as an announcement, which I ca't do right now since I'm at work and it would take too long (hate the search function on this forum).
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understood. Im hoping they might be able to give a clear answer on press released images.|
Originally Posted by Leandro
You forget, something like this is what they'd have to ask their legal department about. And they no longer have a legal department (Zwilinger stated as much in the latest Twitch.tv broadcast, as a reason why no giveaways could be done before the shutdown). So, nobody who's left on Paragon Studios can give a firm answer on this.
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BTW, Lenardo, could I have your permission to use your video as an alternate if CNN does want some other options?
That appears to be the screenshot used for the 5th Anniversary promo material. If so it was taken on the Test Server in AP in the late afternoon (Pacific) April 23rd, 2009. Not sure if that helps any.
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Originally Posted by Kosmos
That appears to be the screenshot used for the 5th Anniversary promo material. If so it was taken on the Test Server in AP in the late afternoon (Pacific) April 23rd, 2009. Not sure if that helps any.
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whoever took it didnt just hit printscreen as there are more heroes in that shot than the client will show you. you can only see the closest 100? heroes to you in game. here are the two i took at the same time and you can see that not everyone is visible.
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It was indeed a composite. I showed up in some of the head on shots, but was left out in the composite they used. As many of the people who were flying were.
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Originally Posted by Ground_Fault
whoever took it didnt just hit printscreen as there are more heroes in that shot than the client will show you. you can only see the closest 100? heroes to you in game. here are the two i took at the same time and you can see that not everyone is visible.
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Originally Posted by Ground_Fault
whoever took it didnt just hit printscreen as there are more heroes in that shot than the client will show you. you can only see the closest 100? heroes to you in game. here are the two i took at the same time and you can see that not everyone is visible.
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It was most likely taken by David Lewis, our internal guy at Paragon Studios. For shots like this, he actually just used demorecord.
He would fly slowly with demorecord to take a group shot, and then parse through the demorecord file to:
1) remove any characters that may have had an infringing costume
2) remove characters that artistically weren't fitting (i.e. for a screenshot on a retail box or a screenshot for Marketing / PR).
I remember that we occasionally would have to remind players to stop using certain emotes, or stop using powers during these screen capture/demorecord sessions. One time, there were two instances of Atlas Park, and when the group in Atlas Park 1 was getting too uncooperative/rowdy, we just used the group of players in Atlas Park 2.
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Awesome. Since it was done for promotional/press release, I think we are in the clear using it. If you want to send david my way, please feel free to do so.|
Originally Posted by EepEep
It was most likely taken by David Lewis, our internal guy at Paragon Studios. For shots like this, he actually just used demorecord.
He would fly slowly with demorecord to take a group shot, and then parse through the demorecord file to: 1) remove any characters that may have had an infringing costume 2) remove characters that artistically weren't fitting (i.e. for a screenshot on a retail box or a screenshot for Marketing / PR). I remember that we occasionally would have to remind players to stop using certain emotes, or stop using powers during these screen capture/demorecord sessions. One time, there were two instances of Atlas Park, and when the group in Atlas Park 1 was getting too uncooperative/rowdy, we just used the group of players in Atlas Park 2. Best, Jesse "Ghost Falcon" Caceres (posting from my play account) |
Thank you!
I used this in the CNN iReport, finding it in Google under public domain. I would like to verify it is ok to continue to use it.
Please send me a PM about it ASAP if you know who did.
http://i.cdn.turner.com/ireport/sm/p...2207702_p9.jpg