People using artwork
I went to a glitter site tonight to add some little tags to my collection for blogs/comments and such. To my surprise there wasn't just computer generated female fairies but alot by well know artists including Renee Biertempfel and Nene Thomas. The only copyright tag on the pic was for the glitter graphics site. No artist tag, or copyright.
http://www.glittergraphicsnow.com/fairy.html
Now I don't know about you but myself this p*sses me off. I know 2 of the tags were Nene's art as I have the figurines, I know another was Renee's as I have a print of the original print, not this glitterifed one.
I belong to a few PSP sites and they have lists of who allows tags made of their work and who doesn't, everyone follows the rules and don't make the tags or get a license from the body that the artist works with. Fair enough. Then where and how do these public sites get to use the pictures without giving the artist credit let alone the licensing body like CILM. They make things bad for everyone. Personally I can't get my poor brain wrapped around how to PSP, so friends make me tags and sigs. They all have the copright tags on them. I wouldn't know how to delete it if I wanted to, and it just lets the blogs I write on know they are legal tags and no one has pilfered the picture and the artist is getting credit.
That's how I found my favourite artists on eBay and their prints and figurines, was the tag someone made me and their copyright line on it. Now I have about 48 figurines and 6 prints I've framed as well as make bags, lightswitch covers, tiles, all kinds of things.
All my friends know to buy me something with a fairy on it for Christmas or my birthday, the same as I know to buy my best friend something with Harley on it or a part for her bike. Do you think Harley Davidson isn't getting their cut out of the items I buy for her? You bet they are! Then why is it ok for these sites to use artists art on their sites without giving the artist credit?
What do you think? How can this downright theft be stopped?
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The problem is most people have no concept of copyright or intellectual property rights. There is a total misunderstanding that if it's on the web anyone can grab it - not so and ignorance is no defence. |
Your right Drew.
NancyOn one Chronic Pain site I'm on, one of the ladies started adding tags she had "snagged" and adding people's names to them. When I started 2 threads on "what is copyright", and "what is bandwidth theft", after a few heated comments, this one decides it was all just online rumours and not real. So she's going to continue what she's doing!?! Needless to say she does not make me tags anymore and the next day even had a Looney Tunes tag (who will sue and I told them so).
Unbelieveable!
I even had a short list of artists that do not allow their art to be made into tags anymore without a license. A few members thanked me for informing them and deleted tags that weren't allowed.
But not this lady. She wasn't going to have it, that someone would sue these "little old ladies", who are just making tags for their pleasure, and sharing them with their friends....who share them with their friends and on and on. Thereby causing the major problem.
This isn't uninformed but darn stubbornness and pride, not allowing he to believe what is in front of her in back and white.
Well I hope somehow someone can imbed cookies onto each picture/tag for the artists. Then when someone snags it, or tries to, it blocks them or follows them so they can be sent a warning of being sued for taking the picture.
I have to hope that with all the computer technology out here that someone can make a system like that.
Then there would be a positive ending for this~~ and that's what I want to leave you with on this blog ~~ a positive thought.
12:24 PM EST