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Angry as hell

Thu Jul 16, 2009, 11:34 PM
  • Mood: Steaming
  • Listening to: Moonspell - Wolves from the Fog
  • Reading: Eye Tracking publications
  • Watching: my code explode
  • Playing: with C#
  • Drinking: Ice Tea
DeviantArt is a place where artists (known or unknown) showcase their art to the rest of the world. People visiting DeviantArt come here to look at those artists' work and perhaps be inspired themselves. What DeviantArt is NOT, is the world's largest stock gallery where everyone can jump in, steal whatever they want and be off with it, to use it in whatever way they see fit.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy knowing that my work has inspired someone to write, draw, or come to conclusions about their own life (art can do that, too). But it REALLY pisses me off when I browse through Google and stumble upon some Polish or Chinese or whatever site, where someone has decided to download one of my photos, photo manipulations or drawings, quickly wipe out the copyright information from it and upload it as a support image for a text they've written, or as a separate image on its own.

Do a Google Image Search for "iresil" and you will find at least three of my art pieces, used without any permission whatsoever. And there are more of them, and not a single site mentions its sources. I DO have the originals and can prove that they are MY WORK, but even so, we are artists here, and artists strive for RECOGNITION! Who is going to know that I created these images, if here on DeviantArt my art is viewed about 40 times average and on those other sites it gets 4000 (!) downloads??

:steaming: MY ART IS NOT STOCK!!! :steaming:
:steaming: IT IS NOT FREE TO EDIT OR RE-UPLOAD AND IT IS MINE!!! :steaming:
:steaming: ..AND NO, YOU CANNOT CLAIM IT AS YOURS! :steaming:





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:iconkalos-eidos-skopein:
that's just terrible... some people have no concept of intellectual property, and no respect for artists. such should be banned or even sued so they'll learn their lessons.

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my websites: travel photostoys & moleskinelomo
:iconeamfos:
ti malakies ....
polu trelenome me tetoies vlakeies...den mporousan toulaxiston na zitisoun tin adeia sou...toso duskolo einai..?

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POSITIVE THINKING IS FREE....
( in future times we may pay for it ...so enjoy it while you can )
:iconiresil:
The problem is, unfortunately, that one cannot go around suing everyone that does not value intellectual property or the effort an artist has put in that particular piece. :( It is simply not possible because, as it seems, there are so many of these people.. And you could spend your whole life in court pursuing them and still not be able to stop them from doing this. :(

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"All that we see or seem..
..Is but a dream within a dream."


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:iconiresil:
ela nte.. les kai tha elega oxi, an mou to zitousan me eugeniko tropo..

to pio spastiko pantws einai na blepeis dikes sou eikones apo tis opoies exoun sbisei to onoma sou kai tis plasaroun san kati diko tous.. :(

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..Is but a dream within a dream."


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:iconkalos-eidos-skopein:
I guess popularity entails imitation and theft really... That's the prize we have to pay, if we want to be known... *sigh* :(

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my websites: travel photostoys & moleskinelomo
:iconeamfos:
milame pas perpatontas os tin kina kai akoma parapera me to alusopriono sto xeri

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POSITIVE THINKING IS FREE....
( in future times we may pay for it ...so enjoy it while you can )
:iconiresil:
Yup! :chainsaw:

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"All that we see or seem..
..Is but a dream within a dream."


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:iconiresil:
I think the real problem lies at the point when you start becoming known.. If one reaches the point when they are widely recognized, everyone will know that their work is actually theirs.. but until then.. :(

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..Is but a dream within a dream."


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