People stealing artist's content

Message

Apollofrost · Tue Apr 10, 2007 4:14 am

Ok, some of you out there are artists, photographers, musicians, cartoonists, some of you out there just enjoy what these people produce.

Unfortunately there's a big problem with rich established artists stealing from whoever doesn't have the money to take them on in court. They blatantly take what these people work so hard to create, and get away with it.

How would you like it if you wrote a song and then heard it on the radio, being played by someone else who didn't give you a dime for it?

How would you like to see one of your paintings that you put your heart and soul into in a gallery, but with someone else's name on it?

How would you like to know that there was nothing you could do about it?

Well it's happening to hundreds of indie artists out there, who's content we so enjoy, and maybe some day it will happen to you.

What brought this on? Why am I posting this?

An artist named Tod Goldman is notorious for copying other artist's work, for changing one little detail so his lawyers can bail him out, but a little while ago he TRACED someone else's comic, and he'll probably get away with it too if we don't do something.

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showth ... id=2416213

But what can we do? We can raise awareness of this problem so that it can be dealt with. Because if nobody knows about it, how can you resolve it?

I'm asking all of you that read this message to repost it, please. It doesn't matter if you like webcomics or not, or if you're an artist or not, because we all enjoy the content that these people produce.

Sincerely,
Alex Frost

PS: Sorry for spamming the forum, if this isn't the place for this delete it, but I feel really strongly about this stuff, so please don't.

#2 Unread post by **Koss** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 4:34 am

Wow... thats... wow.

You are right... they didn't just steal the concept... or the setting... but they actually TRACED it and added some ears and the word please.

celt · #3 Unread post by **celt** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 9:56 am

yeah, i saw that posted someplace else.

what a load of crap!!!

Wed Apr 11, 2007 3:44 am

Another goon on TMW? Nice...

But yeah- totally sucks

Logitech105 · Wed Apr 11, 2007 3:23 pm

Thats why i dont post my work on the net. I feel bad for all the hard working people who put their heart into what they do best, just to have it stolen right out of their hands.

Most people cant do anything about it either. Seems we want to catch this tod guy so bad, but just keep letting him go.

Fast Eddy B · Thu Apr 12, 2007 2:23 am

THIEF!!!!!!

Timm · #7 Unread post by **Timm** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 10:02 am

That is the pits!