Is it truly right to use the image of a cheetah? My beef is that people use images of animals and then cast the animals aside completely - just recently the Jaguar that represents Brazil was used to open the Olympics. They took all the photographs and then promptly shot the Juguar. This is just to open discussion on this topic if anyone is interested. I might write a whole article on it later, but it is just something I have noticed. You got me to open this article with your adorable cheetah kitten - but what did you do for the cheetah? How is not plagiarism to use someone else's image of a cheetah or the cheetah's image itself? Natural Law transgressions- murder, rape, theft, and trespass - all boiling down to theft - are we not, just one more time, stealing the image of a sentient being and using it for our own purposes?
Good point.. it's ok for the picture to be plagiarized..