Well, it’s not the first time someone has brought up art theft on the forums and that others here have looked out for one another.
It does however feel quite strange to have my posts removed when I didn’t do anything wrong - I was just wondering what he wrote every moderator that seemed so convincing to be able to do so. Apparently someone requested that their name be pulled - but instead the whole entire post got nuked.
Oh well - I don’t ‘think’ he will ever do it again. Or at least if he does, he may be a bit more careful which jobs/outsourcing he applies to. All said and done, it’s actually quite funny - perhaps one of the most careless, dumbest criminal things I have ever seen anyone do.
maybe technically you are right.
but practically I disagree. come on- this guy stole his image and put his name under it. what can be the BEST explanation for this?
I agree that it is a topic of a lawyer BUT in some countries courts and laws are too slow- taking 5-10 years.
so sending our work to forums is kind of an proof that work belongs to us when we publish our work (unofficial copyright) and that protects artists from cheaters in a practical way. So exposing is a good way to shake people and save the innocent person whose work has been stolen.
I think if people who do this thing are made an example of (their details posted across 3 boards, the assurance that a google search for their name will turn up those results first) then we would see a lot less of this happening - only counting regular users of this forum and i’ve seen it about 5/6 times in my 3 year career.
And by a lot less I mean I cant see anyone being stupid enough to try it after hearing about someone being caught. Remove all record of it happening, and we’re back at square one.
Well I think it’s an important issue and should be talked about and made aware of. People stealing others art work and putting their own watermarks is ridiculous, and it discourages honest people from posting their work in the Image uploads area in this site or any other site. The lesson is not only for the person who did it, but for any other person “thinking” about doing it, maybe they could see this thread and think twice about stealing others work and claiming it to be their own.
Just to let you know where i’m standing:
I was active CGarchitect comunity member for years, but since i saw that Cgarchitect is not only using deep linking, which is in european law a copyright infringement, but also ignores the request to not deep link copyrighted content, i quit there. ..don’t doubt my interests!
fine, then there is no reason for another thread in this forum ..
If I couldn’t get the guy’s attention on one forum, I was going to get it another way on another. So hence my initial duplicate posts across three forums.
But the reason for this particular thread was to as ‘why things were deleted’ as I felt I didn’t do anything wrong in the first place. I wanted to know what he had written to the moderators as I couldn’t trust him.
The Internet is a nearly lawless community. It is almost entirely self governed. We have to stand up to criminal injustice where we find it. There are issues that are too small or too trivial (not to mention too costly) to prosecute with any real litigation. This is especially difficult when offenders are across border lines, out of the reach of your local courts.
We have to self regulate, self govern, cooperate for the good of the whole.
That said, no one site should take the brunt of these disputes. Spreading the word around is our best weapon. Especially for the search engine results, as mentioned. If Chaos wants to quench some these fires on their site, it is their right. It’s not exactly good press!
