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?