still the clear water maker of a big O and a C in it is your best bet
on protecting your art.
On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 16:23:35 -0700, David Parenteau
<kitfox_at_firstlight.net> wrote:
> 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.
>
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Received on Wed Mar 09 2005 - 18:18:41 CST