No, this is more mundane in matter. See, I recently "rediscovered" my Elfwood galleries. I say "rediscovered" as I knew of them all along but I haven't been arsed to check them out. I have been suffering from a severe case of "cannnot be arsed" for quite some time now.
Ah well; after quickly deciding that, as I hadn't uploaded anything new onto Elfwood since 2003, everything there was shit, I proceeded with "cleaning house". This meant removing the horrible pieces of "art" and eventually replacing them with something more original (not very likely, me being who I am).
Here's the thing: Elfwood, unlike DeviantART works on a process of tickets (dA's helpdesk uses this system, however). This ensures a somewhat higher standard of the stuff submitted, avoids mis-categorisations (rampant on dA) and makes any kind of "report for policy violation"-button redundant. In the past, things between me and the mods have been slinky. No probs.
Now, as my last ticket was processed, I received this letter in my e-mail:
"Hi!
This is just a short message from the moderators at Elfwood:
Book illustrations usually belong in SF&F. Only illustrations for Harry Potter books or for books that are based on a visual source (for example anything Star Wars) belong in Fanquarter. Both of these images should be moved to your regular sci-fi/fantasy art gallery.
'Gaunt from Gaunt's Ghosts' It is considered a copyright violation to quote that much of a song. You will have to remove some of the lyrics in the image before it will be accepted at Elfwood. You can limit your quotations to no more than 1 verse. If you'd like viewers to read more than that, you are free to provide a link to the entire lyrics.
Because removing so many images without at least 2 images accepted would leave your gallery with less than the 4 minimum images required, we cannot process your ticket. It has been removed from the queue and no changes will occur to your gallery."
This is, in short, bullshit and I shall address the issue at hand point by point.
First off, I'm going to show the pictures it concerns (this was for FanQuarter, Elfwood's special area for FanArt):
Ibram Gaunt from Gaunt's Ghosts by Dan Abnett 
The Guns of Tanith - Psycho Man Cuu Now, the first issue they seemed to have, was that I listed them as book illustrations, or something. Look, there has been comics of the Ghosts, as there have been movies of Harry Potter (which I think is the main reason Harry Potter fanart is accepted). They have appeared in a visual media. Hell, there's even miniatures of 'em available from Games Workshop! Why does Harry get this special treatment in FanQuarter? I can accept that it is to stem the flood of stupid on Elfwood, but still! I don't want to put non-original work of mine, stuff I consider fanart, in my main Sci-Fi/Fantasy gallery. That's what FanQuarter is for! Right?
Second issue: So, now qouting more than one (1) verse of a song is a copyright violation? Let me answer that with an "eeerrrrr, WTF!?". For the record, the whole "linking to a site with lyrics" kind of goes against the whole copyright claim, does it not? See, if I had just linked the lyrics from, say, DarkLyrics(dot)com, everything would've been slinky, eh? But what difference does it make?
There are many problems with this statement from Elfwood's mods.
1. There is something called fair use. I do not do these pictures with profit in mind, it is for sheer fun and I do cite the fact that the lyrics where from Black Sabbath's Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. I cite the creators of the song and give due credit. Where is the proverbial beef?
2. Black Sabbath didn't construct songs in the boring old "verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-chorus" fashion. Sabbath Blood Sabbath has no clear verses and no chorus at all. This is inherent in many, MANY of their songs and is rampant in modern Doom Metal. How the fuck can you apply verses to something like this? It's like asking for the chorus line in a Wagner Opera. Idiotic.
3. This is the point where it becomes pure, undiluted bull on behalf of Elfwood. I already submitted a picture to FanQ that is built up in the same way as the new one!!
"Iron man" from First & Only Yeah, taken, they're both fucking old by now (from 2004 and 2003 respectively) but still! But the overall layout was the same to them. Something from the books, illustrated by me and with Black Sabbath lyrics in the picture to illustrate what was going on, in a weirdly unpoetic manner.
Wow... that was long winded... I'm gonna round off with another scream of BULL SHIT! and the follwing
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