Legal Stuff
All text and images on this site are © 1998-2009 Ken Loh. All rights reserved. Any use or re-transmission without written consent of the copyright owner constitutes copyright infringement and is prohibited. This includes derivative works. Tampering, additions, cropping, low quality reproduction, or other alterations and tranformations of the image are not permitted. You may link to any of my pages, but DO NOT link directly to an image.
Since all of these toys are based on existing characters, I have borrowed some art elements from their original properties for some of the images on my homepage. It is meant as a tribute and I hope that this usage is not seen as copyright infringement. If you are the original copyright owner please email me an appropriate attribution and I will gladly add it to the image. Or, if you prefer, reference the offending item and I will be happy to remove it from my site.
Excerpt from WhatIsCopyright.org
Public domain - not! When visiting a web site, it is so easy to click and save with a mouse button when one sees a graphic image that one likes, or to view the source code and copy part of or all of the HTML coding because one "likes the way this or that was done" or one "wants a similar layout", or to copy original writings because "that person expresses this or that so well". The general (and incorrect) notion is that anything that is on the internet is public domain and may be taken without permission from the creator/owner. Some people actually think (incorrectly) that just because bits of web pages may be stored in one's cache, or because certain browsers allow one to do "file save as" moves or anything similar one may use such material as one wishes. This is false.
Just because your driveway is not inside of your house, is it in the public domain? Does that give anybody off the street the right to stay on your driveway without your permission, even if they can see it from the street, or easily access it? The same basic principle applies to material published on the internet. Material found on the web may be copied freely only if the information is created by the (i) federal government, (ii) if the copyright has expired or (iii) the copyright has been abandoned by the holder. Therefore, "internet" and "public domain" are not synonymous. Any work published on the internet is not automatically placed it in the public domain, unless the material in question complies with one or more of the characteristics mentioned.