Comments on: Stop Thief!

By: krystyn

krystyn — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:35:56 +0000

It’s a sad, thieving world out there. As a web designer I’ve had my own work stolen countless times — from CSS to full site templates. I’ve even seen contracted work I’ve done for Squarespace on Wordpress sites. It’s lame.

By: jonb

jonb — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 21:42:59 +0000

…a flash SITE, is what i meant to say. I’m sure she already has a flash–she’s a photographer, after all.

By: jonb

jonb — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 21:06:19 +0000

I’m a graphic/web designer and a non-professional photographer. I use flickr because it’s a great easy way to upload and organzie lots of photos at once. There is a setting under “your account” that prevents people from dowloading the images; that’s what I do. I also don’t allow people to view high-res images.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/juangrande/

I’m just finishing a website for a photographer. I convinced her that she needed a flash for this very reason. It’s not fool-proof, but does prevent people from dragging and dropping images.

good luck with everything.

By: Sleepynita

Sleepynita — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 04:19:34 +0000

I even emailed them after the fact telling them what I thought of their theft.

Thanks for removing Br**** P*****’s illustrations from your site. I find it sickening that you would steal artwork from a site (which was commissioned by a different company) and have the nerve to create Cafe Press items with it. I hope that you will be reimbursing B***** appropriately for the amount of time you used her art and for the money you generated selling items with her image on them.

As well I would like to thank you for making an artist and blogger so scared of future thefts that she is pulling all of her illustrations from her blog.

Your ethics make me sick.

By: Sleepynita

Sleepynita — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 04:11:56 +0000

I am so sad that you feel like you need to remove your artwork. I love your art. :( I am pleased that they took it down though!

WHat a week, everyone is getting stolen from.

By: Miss Vicky

Miss Vicky — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 03:05:36 +0000

So weird. This afternoon I checked and the image seemed to have been removed (although still showed up as an icon on firefox). I just visited again and it seems to be back on their masthead?!?! What the heck?!

By: Kate

Kate — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 02:36:47 +0000

What assholes. You’re a better person than I am for not suing them for the profits.

By: Saple

Saple — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 20:52:01 +0000

Oh……..

I, in no way, run a widely read website or anything like that but I do have to say that I routinely “borrow” images from the WWW for internal documents at work and such….

I never claim them as my own or try and plaster them onto cafepress items..

By: PennyMichelle

PennyMichelle — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:41:23 +0000

Kick some butt!! I’m sorry you’re having to go through all of this…it makes me nervous to have all of my photography out there as well…i’m thinking i need to take everything down and watermark it. what a severe bummer. dang. i hope to hear good news about the results soon!

GOOD LUCK!

PS YOU ROCK!

By: aunt kathy

aunt kathy — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:06:56 +0000

I’m so glad you got things straightened out. I hope it wasn’t messy. I checked that blog yesterday and today and am glad to see that what was up yesterday is now down today. (Your designs/pics are soooo much better!) Take care.