Gosh, here we are in the future, and here we are doing something these wild 
and woolly info-anarchists of the '90s never in a million years anticipated: 
stating out terms for fair  use of the art contained in this archive.

(We haven't just gotten uptight in our boneless dotage, actions on the part of 
our fans and colleagues really have forced our hand in this matter!  We do 
fully expect however that anyone viewing the artpacks on 16colors or visiting 
our website will have long since internalised all these unwritten guidelines, 
and that it's the randos on social media -- who won't be visiting the source 
or experiencing the works in their intended context, sand consequently... will 
never be reading this in a million years -- we mostly need to worry about.)

There is an understanding that some parties are given license to use computer 
art from artpacks.  If Bob draws an ANSI screen for John's BBS Deadly Bladez 
and releases it in a g00bers artpack coordinated by TheDankGonch, it is 
understood that Bob can share it ("look at this great art I made last week!"), 
John can share it ("Bob made this great ad for my BBS, PS I'm changing its 
name to The Fleshlight Of Darkness") and TheDankGonch can share it ("Lots of 
good work coming from the g00b c0mmunity this month, check out this screen by 
Bob!")  In the present day, 16colors is on that list also ("check out this hot 
new piece from the fresh g00bz release!").  If you love what you see in our 
collections (this all probably applies to all other artscene releases unless 
they specify otherwise) and want to share it over social media, but for some 
reason (cough cough, Instagram) are unable to simply reshare the correctly-
attributed posts we make, you should also feel at liberty to post the image 
with full credit given to the original artist (ideally tagging them as your 
choice of venue allows), which should be easy since we bake their ID into 
every piece's filename in plaintext.

Can Bob print his art out on posters and sell them?  Absolutely, he made the 
art!  (Well, Sam Kieth made the art, Bob just adapted it to ANSI, so he would 
be pooh poohed from selling it at Fan Alley at a convention, and Sam might 
send him a cease and desist 8)  John would be well advised to run any 
revisions of the art by Bob, but nominally it's his to fold spindle and 
mutilate eg. for the needs of Deadly Bladez, to turn into a menu or use on a 
business card.  But don't sell your BBS' art on t-shirts if you didn't make 
it, John, that's tremendously gauche!  Or if you want to go that way, license 
the art from the creator.  No one else besides the original artists should be 
manufacturing and vending merchandise featuring it.  You're not Bob or John?  
Why are you even wondering, of course you need to go ask the original artist 
for permission!  If you can't figure out how to contact them, please contact 
US at info@mistigris.org and we will liaise on your behalf.