At 04:56 AM 3/9/2005, you wrote:
>Artwork get ripped and us all the time online if any one wants to stop
>thief of their art work its easy just us a clear water mark of a big
>copy right mark in the middel of it . Its so easy to do.
So easy to ruin your art, yep. And that's what a lot of folks do, ruin
perfectly good art in the name of protection. Hey, Terra, do you also
paint a huge "Owned by me!" across the entire top of a nice car, or
watermark your house too?
>If you don't
>1000's of webbers that use graphics and snag them will share them all
>over the net and they really don't care who it belongs to because it
>was not marked.
They'll grab it even if it is marked. And some of them are even good
enough to remove the mark. Unless you UTTERLY destroy the art in question
with the mark, but then it isn't really art anymore, is it?
>People don't care about copy right laws if they want
>it and its not marked right its called a freebie to many. I been
>seeing this for the last 11 years on the net with Yahoo! clubs and
>groups .com.
Isn't it kind of silly that the entire groups thing hasn't been around that
long? I believe somebody had this discussion with you before,
though. Rather than ruin your art, most of us get around by two
procedures: 1: Contact the person and ask them nicely. This works in 75%
of the situations generally, and the art is taken down. 2: Failing at
that, slap their ass with a DMCA Takedown Order and scare the shit out of
them, plus get their account pulled by the ISP. :) This works in most of
the rest of the situations.
Yeah, you could watermark it, and then people probably won't steal
it. That's not because you watermarked it and they know it's yours,
though. You could have a very plain and blatant non-obscuring info chunk at
the bottom making it obvious that it's yours, and people would still steal
it. It's because people steal art that is GOOD, and they steal art that
they LIKE... And when you slap that huge blurb over it, suddenly, your art
sucks, is no longer good, and nobody likes it anymore, so nobody steals it. :)
It all really makes sense when you put it logically.
Received on Wed Mar 09 2005 - 15:58:23 CST