"but the least they could do is say who really made it!" Ah, yes. The "moral rights". We usually complain about copyright violaters, because that is often the basis for economic damages. However, artists have another entire suite of rights once they create a work of art. (Art done as employment or work-for-hire doesn't get these rights, art done under contract gets some of them.) We have the right to claim the work as ours, or to renounce it. We can show it in our portfolios. We have the right to insist that it not be altered by others. We can make conditions for how the work is displayed or used. When work of high value resales, we are even supposed to get a small percentage royalty on that sale. Of course, the most important thing is the link between our name and the work of art we created out of our own mind. When these brats swipe our work, alter it, and then give credit to somebody else, they are violating much more than copyright laws. (And, yes, these protections are international... the U.S. is still a laggard on some of them.) Carolly