Comments on: Illustration book plagiarizes dozens of artists

By: theApe

theApe — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:00:15 +0000

Here is an update! http://apefluff.com/colorful-illustrations-93c-update-1/

By: theApe

theApe — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:00:00 +0000

Here is an update! http://apefluff.com/colorful-illustrations-93c-update-1/

By: rodo

rodo — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:00:22 +0000

A couple of things horrified me about this, one is the theft of the work itself, which is reprehensible.

The second is that the response to the posts I made about it on the Cartoonist Club of Great Britain’s forum and on the Wisenheimer board were pathetic. Hopefully one or two more people will have fully understood the implications by now. Last time I looked only Private Eye cartoonist Wilbur Dawbarn and US author/illustrator Stacy Curtis were remotely interested.

On TCJ board, some people thought it was an opportunity not to get all hot and bothered about the small issue of copyright theft, but to debate the finer points of the copyright law itself, but you usually find those people are not authors or illustrators or cartoonists anyway.

Overall the response to this act of piracy has been oddly muted and yet, if one of J.K Rowlings gibberish-filled post-it notes was ripped-off in this way there would be an outcry.

Maybe the cartoonists (and bear in mind I am one) are not too bothered because they know their work will never be ripped off in this manner; nobody will be interested in making a collection of cartoons because nobody would want to buy it.

By: rodo

rodo — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:00:00 +0000

A couple of things horrified me about this, one is the theft of the work itself, which is reprehensible.

Overall the response to this act of piracy has been oddly muted and yet, if one of J.K Rowlings gibberish-filled post-it notes was ripped-off in this way there would be an outcry.

By: fabianfucci

fabianfucci — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:53:44 +0000

Maybe issuing a complaint at the IC3 may help.
http://www.ic3.gov/

By: fabianfucci

fabianfucci — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:53:00 +0000

Maybe issuing a complaint at the IC3 may help.
http://www.ic3.gov/

By: Lee

Lee — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 23:10:23 +0000

It might be worth posting this on
http://youthoughtwewouldntnotice.com/blog3/ to bring attention to the issue.

By: Lee

Lee — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 23:10:00 +0000

It might be worth posting this on
http://youthoughtwewouldntnotice.com/blog3/ to bring attention to the issue.

By: meggiecat

meggiecat — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 20:11:01 +0000

Unfortunately, I think blogmining is becoming more common in many creative areas. The ease with which this is accomplished is astonishing with tools such as Blurb's free Blurb BookSmart tool that they say "Your blog. Automatically slurped into a real book". Here is a video showing how easy it is: How to Make a Blog Book Using Blurbf It requires knowing the password but that shouldn't be too hard for a criminal anyway. If Blurb can have this software then the creeps can have their versions too. The sad aspect of this is that more of us will think twice about the content and quality we post.

By: meggiecat

meggiecat — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 20:11:00 +0000