Turtle opened this issue on Apr 19, 2003 ยท 141 posts
elizabyte posted Sun, 20 April 2003 at 4:53 AM
Two of those are mine. In order to do that, this woman HAD to deliberately edit out an extremely obvious watermark/signature that identifies the work as mine. I've contacted Yahoo (not that I think that'll do any good, but I thought I'd at least make them aware of the issue) and publicized this woman's actions in a number of appropriate places. Right now I'm working on an image for her, and I'll post to this thread with the link when I'm done. At least one of those images was posted ONLY to Poser Pros and nowhere else, not even my own domain (it was a contest entry). So I'd say that's where she got at least one. The other one that she stole was a contest winner at Poser Pros (Front Page Image of the Week), so it's pretty identifiable and it's bloody easy to prove that it's mine. I can see that in the future I'll have to put the signature/watermark on my image in a way that mars the image enough that it's not as attractive to idiots like this. And you know, if you lack the talent and ability to make your own images and just have to resort to stealing other peoples' work, perhaps you should find a hobby that ISN'T graphics related. Duh. bonni
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