headsup on artist's rights
Apr. 18th, 2008 09:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aimeekittyLink to Drawn.CA (which has links to all relevant information.
So. basically, some shady company (probably in china), grabbed a bunch of 72 dpi illustrations off the internet (and interviews and text, etc...) and slapped them together into a big artbook. (WITHOUT PERMISSION of course) and has been selling these books... they're actually in stores. The artists who had their work stolen are having a very hard time finding any solid information on the company who made the book, or getting any legal recourse.
As a little added information, I've had this happen to me to, not with my artwork but with my doll photos. More than once they've been taken for use in a book or stickers or bags or whatever. (and I'm just a casual doll photographer! I'm sure more accomplished folks get stolen even more often!)
Makes you want to take all your work down, huh? I won't, but I might seriously reconsider the size of the watermark on my images. :\ I've NEVER been a fan of big watermarks, I don't like to mar the artwork and irritate the viewer like that, but this is just ridiculous. I'll have to give it some thought.
So. basically, some shady company (probably in china), grabbed a bunch of 72 dpi illustrations off the internet (and interviews and text, etc...) and slapped them together into a big artbook. (WITHOUT PERMISSION of course) and has been selling these books... they're actually in stores. The artists who had their work stolen are having a very hard time finding any solid information on the company who made the book, or getting any legal recourse.
As a little added information, I've had this happen to me to, not with my artwork but with my doll photos. More than once they've been taken for use in a book or stickers or bags or whatever. (and I'm just a casual doll photographer! I'm sure more accomplished folks get stolen even more often!)
Makes you want to take all your work down, huh? I won't, but I might seriously reconsider the size of the watermark on my images. :\ I've NEVER been a fan of big watermarks, I don't like to mar the artwork and irritate the viewer like that, but this is just ridiculous. I'll have to give it some thought.
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Date: 2008-04-19 11:51 am (UTC)It's for your own protection. If someone out there can do stuff like this, then I wouldn't mind at all seeing a watermark on your work. I'd completely understand!