At 12/8/08 05:30 PM, Fleshlight wrote:
you can't really report it. the voice actor in that animation is tomamoto and he's pretty well known here. the only thing the author stole (or the youtuber stole) was the concept.
The youtuber made the video first. As for the matter of the voice actor being popular that really has nothing to do about the material being stolen or not.
Also it doesn't matter if it's just the concept is stolen. It still constitutes as stealing. It's alright to use someone else's material if you cite the correct source and get permission from the original author. Seeing that the NG user did neither it's not goes against displaying "original work" on Newgrounds. Without getting the original author's consent or citing the original source which the flash was based off of; the flash is constituted as stolen.
All I asked for in the post is who I should contact about the issue. I do not wish to cause any problems, but just wish to be pointed in the right direction.
Thanks for your time,
hypeserver